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Workplace innovation in the public sector

Eurofound: “Innovative organisational practices in the workplace, which aim to make best use of human capital, are traditionally associated with the private sector. The nature of the public sector activities makes it more difficult to identify these types of internal innovation in publicly funded organisations.

Middle East DNS Forum 2016

The Middle East DNS Forum will be the place to meet and network with the industry’s key players. Participants from ICANN, ISOC, Registries, Registrars, Registrants, ccTLDs, New gTLD Applicants, service providers, brand owners, legal firms, and anyone who has an interest in the DNS industry is expected to attend the event in an aim to build bridges between interested parties […]
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Middle East DNS Forum 2016

The Middle East DNS Forum will be the place to meet and network with the industry’s key players. Participants from ICANN, ISOC, Registries, Registrars, Registrants, ccTLDs, New gTLD Applicants, service providers, brand owners, legal firms, and anyone who has an interest in the DNS industry is expected to attend the event in an aim to build bridges between interested parties […]

Middle East DNS Forum 2016

The Middle East DNS Forum will be the place to meet and network with the industry’s key players.

The Biggest Hope for Ending Corruption Is Open Public Contracting

Gavin Hayman at the Huffington Post: “This week the British Prime Minister David Cameron is hosting an international anti-corruption summit.

Using Tweets and Posts to Speed Up Organ Donation

David Bornstein in the New York Times: “…But there is a problem: Demand for organ transplants vastly outstrips supply, as my colleague Tina Rosenberg has reported.

Public Spending, by the People

Public Agenda: “From 2014 to 2015, more than 70,000 residents across the United States and Canada directly decided how their cities and districts should spend nearly $50 million in public funds through a process known as participatory budgeting (PB). PB is among the fastest growing forms of public engagement in local governance, having expanded to 46 communities in the U.S. and Canada in just 6 years.

The Internetish Things of Cuba: Open Source and ‘in the Clear’

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with Berkman Fellow , Ellery Biddle

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Learn about the complex landscape of Internet access, digital media use and open source software development in Cuba.

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Organising in the “digital wild west”: Can strategic bottlenecks help prevent a race to the bottom for online workers?

The Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality Group on 11 May 2016 at 16:29PM For decades, large firms have been outsourcing and offshoring jobs. Work flowed from developed economies to developing ones, where wages were lower and regulations were of a lighter touch. Europeans and North Americans lost jobs, and Asians, South Americans, and… Continue Reading → [...]

America is 'dropping cyberbombs' -- but how do they work?

This article was originally published on The Conversation under a CC Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) license.  Read the original article.

Organising in the “digital wild west”: Can strategic bottlenecks help prevent a race to the bottom for online workers?

GeoNet Project on 11 May 2016 at 14:40PM For decades, large firms have been outsourcing and offshoring jobs. Work flowed from developed economies to developing ones, where wages were lower and regulations were of a lighter touch. Europeans and North Americans lost jobs, and Asians, South Americans, and Africans gained them. But the nature of these processes meant that business activities [...]

Regulatory Transformations: An Introduction

Chapter by Bettina Lange and Fiona Haines in the book Regulatory Transformations: “Regulation is no longer the prerogative of either states or markets. Increasingly citizens in association with businesses catalyse regulation which marks the rise of a social sphere in regulation. Around the world, in San Francisco, Melbourne, Munich and Mexico City, citizens have sought to transform how and to what end economic transactions are conducted.

86° Mercoledì di Nexa - Il nesso tra New Media e Gender Empowerment

Page Type: Eventmercoledi11 maggio 2016Elena Pavan (Scuola Normale Superiore, Fellow Centro Nexa)
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 1Data evento: Wed, 11/05/2016 - 18:00 to 20:00luogo: Via Boggio 65/a | Torino (primo piano)

Diez grados de la Universidad, entre los mejores de España, según el ‘ranking’ de ‘El Mundo’

Diez grados de la Universidad, entre los mejores de España, según el ‘ranking’ de ‘El Mundo’
Obtiene primeros puestos en Comunicación, Nutrición, Farmacia, Arquitectura, Medicina, Enfermería e Ingeniería

FOTO: Manuel Castells

11/05/16 11:58
María Salanova

Digitaler Salon: Digital Abstinence

Who stays off the internet and why? Internet is everywhere, but not everyone is using it. Some don’t use it, although it’s everywhere. Others abstain from it exactly because it’s... MORE

Konferencja „Cyfrowe wyzwania” coraz bliżej


Konferencja
CYFROWE WYZWANIA
Kompetencje cyfrowe
a uczestnictwo w kulturze
13 czerwca 2016 r.
Sala Balowa, Pałac Tyszkiewiczów-Potockich,
Krakowskie Przedmieście 32, Warszawa
Szczegółowy program konferencji

Konferencja „Cyfrowe wyzwania” coraz bliżej


Konferencja
CYFROWE WYZWANIA
Kompetencje cyfrowe
a uczestnictwo w kulturze
13 czerwca 2016 r.
Sala Balowa, Pałac Tyszkiewiczów-Potockich,
Krakowskie Przedmieście 32, Warszawa
Szczegółowy program konferencji

"Estamos peleando por volver a tener universidades públicas en Chile"

Autoridades académicas, políticas y universitarias, además de funcionarios y estudiantes participaron en la Inauguración del Año Académico 2016, instancia en la cual el Rector Ennio Vivaldi enfatizó en la necesidad de reinstalar en el debate el rol de las universidades públicas en un sistema "que garantice la educación de calidad, pluralista, inclusiva e impulsora del desarrollo del país".

Marea roja: "Nos encontramos en el momento más peligroso"

El pasado 29 de abril el gobierno decretó zona de catástrofe en el borde costero de la Región de Los Lagos debido al fenómeno de marea roja que desde hace semanas impide el trabajo de numerosos pescadores artesanales de la zona. En esta entrevista, el director del Laboratorio de Toxinas Marinas del Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas de la Facultad de Medicina, detalla la aguda situación que se vive en sur del país y da cuenta de la complejidad de un fenómeno que arrastra consecuencias sociales y económicas, y cuyo origen es aún desconocido.

La industria salmonera volvió a olvidarse que trabaja con seres vivos

En un contexto marcado por la muerte de millones de salmones debido a un florecimiento de algas y la pérdida de miles de puestos de trabajo, la académica de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo alerta sobre los desafíos que enfrenta la industria salmonera para superar su crisis, así como las decisiones que debe tomar el Estado para fomentar el desarrollo en las regiones que basan su actividad económica en las materias primas.El reciente anuncio de 4 mil nuevos cupos de capacitación para trabajadores desvinculados de la industria salmonera luego de un repentino fl