In dem Schreiben drücken die Ärztinnen und Ärzte ihre „zunehmende Sorge um die Krankenversorgung der Bevölkerung im Großraum Düsseldorf“ aus. Weiter heißt es in dem Brief: „Es steht unmittelbar bevor, dass dringlich notwendige Operationen nicht mehr zeitnah durchgeführt werden können und zeitkritische Krebstherapien nur verzögert stattfinden.“
Vor diesem Hintergrund bitten die Unterzeichner des Briefes den Ministerpräsidenten, sich für eine Vermittlung einzusetzen bzw. eine Person seines Vertrauens zu benennen, die diese Aufgabe übernimmt.

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The oceans were the original global commons, shed and navigated for ages. But new technologies have added numerous challenges to sustaining our oceans: offshore oil drilling, deep-sea mining, and overfishing. However, it’s crucial that water, both freshwater and saltwater, remains a commons and held in the public trust, because access to clean and affordable water is a basic human right.

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The Internet Society has a vision that the Internet must be open, global, and secure for the good of all people. But to get there, the world must demand change in how decisions that shape the Internet’s future are made. Decisions being made behind closed doors.

Douglas Rushkoff: Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the largest fee I had ever been offered for a talk — about half my annual professor’s salary — all to deliver some insight on the subject of “the future of technology.”

Today marks the formal publication of an overhaul of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. TLS is an Internet standard used to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery for various Internet applications. It is probably the most widely deployed network security standard in the world. Often indicated by the small green padlock in a web browser’s address bar1, TLS  is used in financial transactions, by medical institutions, and to ensure secure connections in a wide variety of other applications.

Youth and privacy in the Americas: InternetBolivia.org, Bolivia How do youth allies promote young people’s critical thinking on privacy, in informal learning contexts in the Americas? This blog post is part of a series showcasing the work of different organizations at the intersection of youth development, digital rights, and online safety. Quick facts Who: Eliana Quiroz and Cristian León from Internet Bolivia.org What: Advocacy, campaigning, research Mission/vision: To strengthen the free and safe use of […]

La realización de 22 mil seminarios, congresos y talleres de extensión; el desarrollo de cátedras interdisciplinarias sobre asuntos de interés nacional; y la participación de 165 mil personas en el programa UAbierta son algunas de las acciones de Vinculación con el Medio impulsadas por la Universidad en los últimos siete años.

Las personas interesadas en rendir este examen el 26 y 27 de noviembre deben registrar todos sus datos en la página web del Departamento de Evaluación, Medición y Registro Educacional (DEMRE) hasta obtener la Tarjeta de Identificación.

Diamela Eltit, Iván Jaksic Andrade, Ricardo Baeza Yates y Berthier Ribeiro Nieto, Tomás Moulian, Elicura Chihuailaf, Ramón Díaz Eterovic y Rosabetty Muñoz se adjudicaron el premio de carácter bienal que entrega nuestro plantel con el fin de distinguir a las mejores obras científicas y literarias publicadas en Chile o por chilenos y chilenas residentes en el extranjero.

Evento reuniu professores e alunos da graduaçãoHoje foi realizado o Encontro FGV Direito Rio 2018 com a participação de alunos e professores. Na ocasião, Thiago Bottino, Coordenador da Graduação, falou sobre as modificações que a Escola realiza constantemente em suas estruturas sempre com o intuito de melhorar ainda mais a experiência dos alunos, como por exemplo, a mudança curricular.
Além disso, o professor homenageou os alunos aprovados na OAB e falou para o auditório lotado sobre a importância do ENADE para a avaliação da Escola e para o currículo dos estudantes.

Globally, significant progress has been made in recent years with respect to Internet access, however, much more needs to be done. Presently, 54% of the global community is not connected to the Internet. In the Caribbean region, big disparities can be noted. As measured by Internet penetration rates, while countries such as Barbados (80%), Trinidad & Tobago (70%) are well connected, this is not the case in others such as Haiti (12%) and Guyana (40%).

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Der Inhalt des Buches basiert im Wesentlichen auf seiner langjährigen Vorlesungsreihe "Makromolekulare Chemie I/ II" an der HHU. Neben dem elementaren Grundlagenwissen wurde diese Vorlesung kontinuierlich den aktuellen Entwicklungen der Forschung im Kunststoffbereich angepasst. Insbesondere sind für die Studierenden wichtige Praxisaspekte, die aufgrund vieler Industriekontakte und Kooperationen zwischen der HHU bzw. seiner Arbeitsgruppe und namhaften Firmen erworben wurden, laufend in die Lehrinhalte eingeflossen.

Michel Bauwens: When we look at the emerging crypto economy, it is very important to disentangle the two co-mingled and contradictory aspirations that it can represent.

Shuyang Lin at the Sydney Morning Herald: “Taiwanese citizens have spent the past 30 years prototyping future democracy since the lift of martial law in 1987. Public participation in Taiwan has been developed in several formats, from face-to-face to deliberation over the internet. This trajectory coincides with the advancement of technology, and as new tools arrived, democracy evolved.

Article by Paula Goldman and Raina Kumra: “Is it possible for tech developers to anticipate future risks? Or are these future risks so unknowable to us here in the present that, try as we might to make our tech safe, continued exposure to risks is simply the cost of engagement?

In today’s interconnected world, the internet serves as a fundamental tool for communication, information dissemination, and business operations. However, the increasing volume of data flowing through global networks has prompted concerns about security, privacy, and content regulation. One common approach to address these concerns is filtering internet traffic, which involves monitoring and controlling the flow of data based on predefined rules or criteria.

Filtering internet traffic can encompass various purposes, including:

Daniel Benaim and Hollie Russon Gilman at Slate: “…What happens when these technologies migrate to bigger, more fractious societies? This won’t happen overnight—and the financial and logistical obstacles to broad implementation are significant.