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Vinayak Dalmia at Swarajya: “In September last year, a news release stated that NITI Aayog, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will help set up a “nudge unit”.

Nora Ni Loideain at the Journal of International Data Privacy Law: “Promises abound that ‘smart city’ technologies could play a major role in developing safer, more sustainable, and equitable cities, creating paragons of democracy.

Vom 23. bis 29. September 2017 besucht Prof. Andrea von Hülsen-Esch insgesamt sechs Partneruniversitäten der HHU in Japan. Gleich zu Beginn besuchte sie eine der prestigeträchtigsten privaten Universitäten des Landes, die Waseda-Universität in Tokio. Die seit 2014 bestehende Zusammenarbeit soll in den kommenden Jahren intensiviert und erweitert werden: Die HHU strebt unter anderem neue Kooperationen in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften und zwischen den juristischen Fakultäten an.

Paper by Felix Ritchie: “The ‘Five Safes’ is a popular way to structure thinking about data access solutions. Originally used mainly by statistical agencies and social science academics, in recent years it has been adopted more widely across government, health organisations and private sector bodies. This paper explains the Five Safes, how the concept is used to organise and simplify decision-making, and how it helps to address concerns of different constituencies.

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Is it possible to historicize the commons, to describe the evolution of the commons over time? This is our first draft and preliminary attempt to do so.
To do this we must of course define the commons. We generally agree with the definition that was given by David Bollier and others and which derives from the work of Elinor Ostrom and the researchers in this tradition.

It has been said that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. That might have been true a decade ago, but today, the end of capitalism is becoming more and more plausible — at times it feels inevitable. In fact, at least half of Americans think that capitalism is a fundamentally unfair system, and over a third have a positive view of socialism. These numbers are rather strange for a society where just uttering the word “socialist” in public a generation ago could cost you your job or get you onto some government list.

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Business Improvement District (BIDs): Reflections from Comparative Law 09h00 até 11h00O Evento: 
O seminário, coordenado pelo Centro de Pesquisa em Direito e Economia (CPDE) e pelo Mestrado Acadêmico em Direito da Regulação, será ministrado pelo Professor Julian Jurgensmeyer, especialista em Direito Urbanístico da Georgia State University, e tem como objetivo discutir as experiências norte-americanas de BIDs e suas possíveis aplicações no contexto brasileiro.
 

Un equipo multidisciplinario compuesto por investigadores del Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica (DIE) de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM), trabajan en una solución para monitorear el tránsito de ballenas para fines de conservación de estos animales en peligro de extinción.

La orquesta una vez más explorará los sonidos del séptimo arte para abordar algunos de los temas de reconocidas películas como Star Wars, Frozen y Toy Story, en interpretaciones que irán acompañadas de la proyección de algunos extractos de los filmes.

Robin Murray was an extraordinarily imaginative, radical and humane economist. His wide range of influences included Marxism, Gandhi and the living experiments around the world that inspired him daily – one of the sources of his tremendous, and infectious, optimism and hope.

Naveen Rajdev at Quartz:” …You don’t want your smart city’s proverbial slip to show, and you don’t want to overwhelm your citizens with too much tech. So what’s the plan?
1. Start making technology invisible
Being able to “see” technology creates interaction, and interaction creates distraction.

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Researching Social Media, Online Platforms, and Algorithmic Systems From the Outside

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Join us at the University of Michigan for a discussion with Eric Gilbert, Cedric Langbort, Jeff Larson, Casey Pierce, and Christo Wilson on how researchers can navigate and investigate huge and complex datasets, algorithms, and online platforms to improve transparency and accountability.

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The Bad News About Online Discrimination in Algorithmic Systems

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Join us at the University of Michigan for a discussion with Solon Barocas, J. Nathan Matias, H. V. Jagadish, and Christian Sandvig on the potential for discrimination and digital redlining posed by the development of purportedly neutral algorithms.

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28
2017
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Hasan Bakhshi et al at Nesta: “In recent years, there has been an explosion of research into the impacts of automation on work. This makes sense: artificial intelligence and robotics are encroaching on areas of human activity that were simply unimaginable a few years ago.

Was als Planspiel einer wissenschaftlichen Konferenz im Rahmen des Graduiertenkollegs begonnen hat, findet nun am 28. und 29. September mit rund 100 angemeldeten Teilnehmern tatsächlich statt. Die Konferenz richtet sich an Bachelor, Master, Doktoranden und Post-Doktoranden. Präsentiert werden bedeutende und innovative Methoden der Leberforschung.

Given the data-intensive nature of approaches such as machine learning, and the increasing ubiquity of AI in everyday products and services, there is a growing interest within the privacy community to understand its implications. At the same time, a tremendous amount of innovation and entrepreneurship in the AI space is emerging from Asia and Latin America, not just western economies, to address local challenges. This global roundtable focused on trust, which is essential to the relationship between governments and citizens, companies and users, as well as amongst users.