Internet access and the development of digital skills can transform lives of over 350 million people in the Middle East. With more than 60% of the population under 25 years old, the region is one of the most youthful in the world. However, at the same time, young people are the ones facing several challenges regarding education and employment.

mySociety and Open Knowledge International are looking for the digital files that hold electoral boundaries, for every country in the world — and you can help. 
Yeah, we know — never let it be said we don’t know how to party.
But seriously, there’s a very good reason for this request. When people make online tools to help citizens contact their local politicians, they need to be able to match users to the right representatives.

Keith Kahn-Harris at The Guardian: “…Denialism is an expansion, an intensification, of denial. At root, denial and denialism are simply a subset of the many ways humans have developed to use language to deceive others and themselves. Denial can be as simple as refusing to accept that someone else is speaking truthfully. Denial can be as unfathomable as the multiple ways we avoid acknowledging our weaknesses and secret desires.

Eleni Manis at RealClearHealth: “Americans are willing to share personal data — even sensitive medical data — to advance the common good. A recent Stanford University study found that 93 percent of medical trial participants in the United States are willing to share their medical data with university scientists and 82 percent are willing to share with scientists at for-profit companies.

Unicef: “New research by scientists from UNICEF’s Office of Innovation — published today in the journal Nature Human Behaviour — applies methods from network science and machine learning to constitutional law.

In early 2018, President Macron announced a law against fake news. This was triggered by the dissemination of false information during the election campaign and the general fear that they could lead to an increasing distortion of political discourse in the Internet. The government’s draft has been available since May 2018 and it is now…
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Von 10 bis 15.00 Uhr beantworten die Experten des Interdisziplinären Brustzentrums, des Gynäkologischen Krebszentrums und des Zentrums des Deutschen Konsortiums für familiären Brust- und Eierstockkrebs Patientinnen, Interessierten und Ärzten in Vorträgen, Gesprächsrunden und Workshops Fragen rund um das Thema weibliche Krebserkrankungen.

Book by Suzanne Mettler: “Americans’ relationship to the federal government is paradoxical. Polls show that public opinion regarding the government has plummeted to all-time lows, with only one in five saying they trust the government or believe that it operates in their interest. Yet, at the same time, more Americans than ever benefit from some form of government social provision.

Cordis: “Estimating poverty is crucial for improving policymaking and advancing the sustainability of a society. Traditional poverty estimation methods such as household surveys and census data incur huge costs however, creating a need for more efficient approaches.

Projetos podem ser submetidos até o dia 30 de setembroA FGV Direito Rio está com inscrições abertas para o "Prêmio FGV Direito Rio – Melhores Práticas em Regulação". Em sua primeira edição a premiação dará destaque às melhores práticas de regulação adotadas por agências reguladoras federais, estaduais ou municipais, tanto individualmente quanto em parceria com outros órgãos e entidades.

“Os Estados Partes condenam a discriminação contra as mulheres sob todas as suas formas, acordam em prosseguir, por todos os meios apropriados e sem demora, uma política tendente a eliminar a discriminação contra as mulheres[…]”. Essa é a redação do art. 2º da Convenção sobre a Eliminação de Todas as Formas de Discriminação contra as Mulheres ratificada pelo Brasil em 1984.

Jonathan Cornelissen at Harvard Business School: “Want to catch tax cheats? The government of Rwanda does — and it’s finding them by studying anomalies in revenue-collection data.
Want to understand how American culture is changing? So does a budding sociologist in Indiana. He’s using data science to find patterns in the massive amounts of text people use each day to express their worldviews — patterns that no individual reader would be able to recognize.

„Ein früher Kontakt zur Palliativmedizinischen Ambulanz kann helfen, Beschwerden oder Sorgen im körperlichen, psychischen, spirituellen und sozialen Bereich rechtzeitig anzusprechen, bzw. zu behandeln. Vielen unheilbar erkrankten Patientinnen und Patienten gibt das Sicherheit“, erklärt Dr. Martin Neukirchen, Ärztlicher Leiter des Zentrums für Palliativmedizin am UKD.

La iniciativa de Laboratorios Portátiles, liderada en el país por la U. de Chile y que comenzó en 2013 en la Región Metropolitana, hoy se extiende a siete regiones y suma a once universidades, llevando la experimentación de las ciencias biológicas a los liceos públicos del país. Esta semana, expertos provenientes de nueve países de la Latinoamérica, se reunieron en la Casa de Bello con investigadores de universidades de todo el país para avanzar en la expansión del proyecto y mejorar la calidad de la educación científica. En la Facultad de Ciencias de la U.

Inside the framework of the 11th meeting of LACIGF, the Internet Society’s Regional Bureau in Latin America & Caribbean successfully carried out the 2018 edition of the Workshop for Chapter Leaders. In addition to addressing the key issues of the organization, the event included a session focused on personal development. The 34 participants, from 22 Chapters, also had the opportunity to talk with Andrew Sullivan, future Executive Director of the Internet Society.
Volunteering: A Shared Challenge

Interessados podem se inscrever até o dia 20 de setembroA FGV Direito Rio está com inscrições abertas para o processo seletivo do Intercâmbio 2019.1. Os interessados têm até o dia 20 de setembro para submeterem suas candidaturas através do site, ou diretamente na Coordenação de Relações Internacionais da Escola.

Securing the IoT: Internet of Things security spending is predicted to rise by about 30 percent a year through 2023 as the industry looks for some regulations, reports Cyber Security Hub. Possible regulatory standards are driving part of the growth.

There are very few shelters for homeless people in India, and those that do exist are primarily for men. In 2001 ActionAid India launched Aashray Adhikar Abhiyan – an intervention to create a nationwide network of homeless shelters that has pushed the number of shelters in Delhi from 10 to 269.

In the face of environmental crises and global inequality, how can we work together for more sustainable futures? What can we learn from great transitions and transformations of the past?