New report by Stefaan G. Verhulst and Andrew Young: “The twenty-first century will be challenging on many fronts. From historically catastrophic natural disasters resulting from climate change to inequality to refugee and terrorism crises, it is clear that we need not only new solutions, but new insights and methods of arriving at solutions. Data, and the intelligence gained from it through advances in data science, is increasingly being seen as part of the answer.

Zosia Wasik in the Financial Times: “Opponents of the Polish government have mounted a series of protests on issues ranging from reform of the judiciary to an attempt to ban abortion. In February, they staged yet another, less public but intensely emotive, battle — to save the country’s trees.

Óscar Pau y María José Cabrera, nuevos delegado y subdelegada de la Universidad
Han sido elegidos por los representantes de las distintas facultades y escuelas de la institución

FOTO: Manuel Castells

FOTO: Manuel Castells

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Chris Baraniuk at New Scientist: “There’s a new way to prove you are who you say you are – inspired by the tech underpinning bitcoin. Usually, when you need to verify your identity, the process is archaic, insecure and time-consuming. You get a copy of your birth certificate in the post, put it in an envelope and hope it gets to whoever is asking for it. In the digital era, this should take seconds.

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United States

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Vinayak Dalmia at Swarajya: “In September last year, a news release stated that NITI Aayog, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will help set up a “nudge unit”.

Nora Ni Loideain at the Journal of International Data Privacy Law: “Promises abound that ‘smart city’ technologies could play a major role in developing safer, more sustainable, and equitable cities, creating paragons of democracy.

Vom 23. bis 29. September 2017 besucht Prof. Andrea von Hülsen-Esch insgesamt sechs Partneruniversitäten der HHU in Japan. Gleich zu Beginn besuchte sie eine der prestigeträchtigsten privaten Universitäten des Landes, die Waseda-Universität in Tokio. Die seit 2014 bestehende Zusammenarbeit soll in den kommenden Jahren intensiviert und erweitert werden: Die HHU strebt unter anderem neue Kooperationen in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften und zwischen den juristischen Fakultäten an.

Paper by Felix Ritchie: “The ‘Five Safes’ is a popular way to structure thinking about data access solutions. Originally used mainly by statistical agencies and social science academics, in recent years it has been adopted more widely across government, health organisations and private sector bodies. This paper explains the Five Safes, how the concept is used to organise and simplify decision-making, and how it helps to address concerns of different constituencies.

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Is it possible to historicize the commons, to describe the evolution of the commons over time? This is our first draft and preliminary attempt to do so.
To do this we must of course define the commons. We generally agree with the definition that was given by David Bollier and others and which derives from the work of Elinor Ostrom and the researchers in this tradition.

It has been said that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. That might have been true a decade ago, but today, the end of capitalism is becoming more and more plausible — at times it feels inevitable. In fact, at least half of Americans think that capitalism is a fundamentally unfair system, and over a third have a positive view of socialism. These numbers are rather strange for a society where just uttering the word “socialist” in public a generation ago could cost you your job or get you onto some government list.

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United States

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Business Improvement District (BIDs): Reflections from Comparative Law 09h00 até 11h00O Evento: 
O seminário, coordenado pelo Centro de Pesquisa em Direito e Economia (CPDE) e pelo Mestrado Acadêmico em Direito da Regulação, será ministrado pelo Professor Julian Jurgensmeyer, especialista em Direito Urbanístico da Georgia State University, e tem como objetivo discutir as experiências norte-americanas de BIDs e suas possíveis aplicações no contexto brasileiro.
 

Un equipo multidisciplinario compuesto por investigadores del Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica (DIE) de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM), trabajan en una solución para monitorear el tránsito de ballenas para fines de conservación de estos animales en peligro de extinción.

La orquesta una vez más explorará los sonidos del séptimo arte para abordar algunos de los temas de reconocidas películas como Star Wars, Frozen y Toy Story, en interpretaciones que irán acompañadas de la proyección de algunos extractos de los filmes.

Robin Murray was an extraordinarily imaginative, radical and humane economist. His wide range of influences included Marxism, Gandhi and the living experiments around the world that inspired him daily – one of the sources of his tremendous, and infectious, optimism and hope.

Naveen Rajdev at Quartz:” …You don’t want your smart city’s proverbial slip to show, and you don’t want to overwhelm your citizens with too much tech. So what’s the plan?
1. Start making technology invisible
Being able to “see” technology creates interaction, and interaction creates distraction.