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First ever ERC Starting Grant at Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance

„Wir sind stolz darauf, dass wir mit unserem Sommerfest traditionell die Möglichkeit haben, uns bei unseren Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern für die Leistungen, die sie jeden Tag bei uns erbringen, zu bedanken. Dass wir dabei noch einen guten Zweck unterstützen können, ist für uns eine Ehrensache“, freute sich Ekkehard Zimmer, Kaufmännischer Direktor und stellvertretender Vorstandsvorsitzender am UKD anlässlich der feierlichen Spendenübergabe am Dienstag, 31. Juli 2018.Prof. Dr.

Jungyun Won, Linda Hon, Ah Ram Lee in the Journal of Public Interest Communication: “This study investigates what motivates people to participate in a social media campaign in the context of animal protection issues.
Structural equation modeling (SEM) tested a proposed research model with survey data from 326 respondents.

FeedbackLabs: “A 72% increase in students ceasing to abuse drugs. A 57 percentage point jump in vaccination rates. Fourteen percent higher odds of adults quitting smoking. The improvements in outcomes that people can achieve for themselves when armed with information can be striking.

Schon lange ist Iris Siegfried als Lehrbeauftragte für Musikrecht am ITM bekannt. Wir gratulieren ihr herzlich zu ihrer Ernennung als Honorarprofessorin im Fach an der Hamburger Hochschule für Musik und Theater.

Paper by Xuan Zhang et al: “Health care fraud is a serious problem that impacts every patient and consumer. This fraudulent behavior causes excessive financial losses every year and causes significant patient harm. Healthcare fraud includes health insurance fraud, fraudulent billing of insurers for services not provided, and exaggeration of medical services, etc. To identify healthcare fraud thus becomes an urgent task to avoid the abuse and waste of public funds.

Krassimira Paskaleva and Ian Cooper in Technovation: This article is focused on public service innovation from an innovation management perspective. It presents research experience gained from a European project for managing social and technological innovation in the production and evaluation of citizen-centred internet-enabled services in the public sector.

Paper by S. Succi and P.V. Coveney at arXiv: “We argue that the boldest claims of Big Data are in need of revision and toning-down, in view of a few basic lessons learned from the science of complex systems.

In einer Sonderausgabe der ITM-Podcast-Reihen stellt Toshihiro Wada, aktuell Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft am ITM, die Neuerungen der EU-Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DS-GVO) vor. Thematischer Schwerpunkt des Podcasts sind die Pflichten des Verantwortlichen nach der DS-GVO.
Der Podcast ist auf Japanisch.
 
In a special podcast series, Toshihiro Wada, who is an academic assistant at the ITM, presents the reforms of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The episode’s main topics are the duties of the controller in terms of GDPR.

Komisja Europejska po raz kolejny zdecydowała się na aktualizację ram prawnych dotyczących ponownego wykorzystywania (reuse) informacji sektora publicznego w Europie, które po raz pierwszy zostały wprowadzone wraz z dyrektywą 2003/98/WE w 2003 roku. Pierwsza nowelizacja miała miejsce w 2013 roku kiedy to m.in. rozszerzono zakres dyrektywy na instytucje zajmujące się dziedzictwem kultury, czyli biblioteki, muzea i archiwa.

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For the last few years, there has been a huge debate about how automation will possibly destroy tens of millions of jobs; this fear has even moved Silicon Valley luminaries to join the basic income bandwagon. At the P2P Foundation, we have always insisted that though automation may indeed affect an important number of future jobs, the real issue is really where the surplus profit is invested, and who makes the decisions. There is indeed no dearth of demand for meaningful activity in this world, beginning with a huge need for regenerative economic practices that restore the ecosystem.

Bericht von Alisa Liebchen – SHK am ITM und Klausurbearbeiterin

Dass Abschlussklausuren der Vorlesungen von Prof. Thomas Hoeren gerne mal unkonventionell sind und kreative Lösungen erfordern, ist spätestens seit der sagenumwobenen Colaflaschen-Klausur bekannt und berüchtigt. Die jüngste Klausur im Urheberrecht am Freitag, dem 27. Juli, hat diese Tradition fortgeführt.

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The Union Cabinet recently approved the DNA Technology (Use and Application) Regulation Bill, 2018 (“DNA Profiling Bill”), which is scheduled to be introduced in Parliament today (31st July). The Bill is largely based on the 2017 Law Commission Report on “Human DNA Profiling – A draft Bill for the Use and Regulation of DNA-Based Technology”, […]

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Kartik Hosanagar and Vivian Jair at Harvard Business Review: “In 2013, Stanford professor Clifford Nass faced a student revolt. Nass’s students claimed that those in one section of his technology interface course received higher grades on the final exam than counterparts in another. Unfortunately, they were right: two different teaching assistants had graded the two different sections’ exams, and one had been more lenient than the other.

Lottie Waters at Devex: “Technology provides some great opportunities for global development, and a promising future. But for the next generation of professionals to succeed, it’s vital they stay up to date with the latest tech, innovations, and tools.

Curso é realizado na Esmec para magistrados e servidores do TJCEO vice-diretor da FGV Direito Rio, Antonio Maristello Porto, esteve presente na última semana no início das aulas do “MBA em Direito: Gestão Pública” na Escola Superior da Magistratura do Estado (Esmec). O curso tem como objetivo capacitar magistrados e servidores da área administrativa do TJCE e é uma parceria acadêmica entre as duas Escolas e o TJCE.