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Social scoring is the next big business of the data squid. Information freely available on the Internet from social networks or other sources is linked by algorithms and mixed together to form a value. In totalitarian regimes like China, social scoring is implemented on a large scale. Those who care about privacy should know what it is about - and why it matters what you do online.The article, published on 15.1.

The essay competition “twentyforty – Utopias for a digital society” invites researchers worldwide to describe their visions of a digital society in 20 years from now.     Berlin, 16 January 2019 – How will we decide, live and love in 2040? How will we shape education and the way we work in the future?…
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Von 15:00 bis 17:00 Uhr begutachten Expertinnen und Experten aus dem Bereich Historische Bestände und Restaurierung alte Bücher und informieren über Bedeutung, Schätzwert und Erhaltungszustand. Darüber hinaus geben sie Auskünfte zum Reparaturaufwand und Tipps zur Aufbewahrung. Die Sprechstunde findet im Sonderlesesaal der Bibliothek statt (Universitätsstr. 1, Geb. 24.41, Ebene O1).

This blogpost was co-authored by Danny Lämmerhirt, Pierre Chrzanowski and Sander van der Waal (*author note at the bottom)

A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity

With Assembly (2017), Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri have continued their trilogyEmpire (2000), Multitude (2004), and Commonwealth (2009) into the new decade, expanding it into a tetralogy. The fourth episode sees these advocates of commonism once again provide a critical analysis of the most topical developments in society.

Good Data edited by Angela Daly, S. Kate Devitt and Monique Mann will be published by INC in January 2019. The book launch will be 24 Januari @ Spui25. In anticipation of the publication, we publish a series of posts by some of the authors of the book.

Der dreitägige Kurs startet mit Plenarvorträgen von international renommierten Wissenschaftlern zum Thema Leberbiologie und Leberregeneration.

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United States

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United States

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En 2018 el Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica (DIMEC), de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, se adjudicó 1.700 millones de pesos de financiamiento CORFO para implementar el "Programa de Innovación en Manufactura Avanzada" (IMA+).

"No puede haber un aula justa cuando a la base se encuentran ideas como el mérito y la libertad de elección por sobre el derecho a la educación, las cuales perpetúan la desigualdad", señala Óscar Aguilera, académico y director del Departamento de Estudios Pedagógicos (DEP) de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, a propósito del proyecto "Aula Justa", que impulsa el gobierno del Presidente Sebastián Piñera.

15 January 2019 marks the eighteenth birthday of Wikipedia—and the fourth year of #1Lib1Ref, an annual campaign that asks everyone to jump in and improve Wikipedia by adding at least one citation. In doing so, they help improve the reliability and authenticity of the site for billions of readers.

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Le Centre de Recherche en Droit public (CRDP) en collaboration avec l’Association des Étudiantes et Étudiants en Droit (AED) organise la deuxième édition du colloque sur le thème : Le droit mène t-il à tout ? À cette occasion, plusieurs panels en lien avec les axes de recherche du CRDP seront animés par des étudiants.es et professionnels du droit (Voir affiche).

In July 2018, the Internet Society’s Latin America and Caribbean Bureau held another edition of the Workshop for Chapter Leaders. Besides discussing the challenges and opportunities of participation in their respective chapters, the 34 attendees began the implementation of several projects related to our 4 key issues of 2018. Starting 2019, I am glad to share with you the main results of these projects.

“autonomous ones not subsumed by or subjected to the capitalist drive to accumulation and exploitation.”

This essay was written by Tiziana Terranova and originally published in Euromade.info

WHEN: 21st March 2019 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pmWHERE: University of Westminster (Room UG05); 309 Regent St; Marylebone, London W1B 2HT; UKCOST: Free

Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis & Alex Pazaitis (P2P Foundation) –Book Launch ‘Peer to Peer. The Commons Manifesto’ (University of Westminster Press)

What exactly is colonial about the economic use of data? On November 20, Nick Couldry continued the lecture series Making Sense of the Digital Society. In his lecture, he focused on the social consequences of data collection by private companies. He characterised the current tendencies as a new form of colonisation that has serious consequences…