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Out now: General Theory of the Precariat by Alex Foti

INC proudly presents Theory on Demand #25: General Theory of the Precariat: Great Recession, Revolution, Reaction by Alex Foti
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MOI III: Neuer wissenschaftlicher Beirat

Die MOI III wird in ihrer Arbeit und ihrer strategischen Ausrichtung durch einen vierköpfigen Beirat aus renommierten internationalen Wissenschaftlern unterstützt. Der neu besetzte Beirat besteht aus:

MOI III: Neuer wissenschaftlicher Beirat

Die MOI III wird in ihrer Arbeit und ihrer strategischen Ausrichtung durch einen vierköpfigen Beirat aus renommierten internationalen Wissenschaftlern unterstützt. Der neu besetzte Beirat besteht aus:

BioRiverBoost! Zwei HHU-Start-ups in der Finalrunde

Sieben Start-ups aus Bonn, Düsseldorf, Planegg, Lüttich (Belgien) und Parma (Italien) präsentieren sich vor den globalen Konzernen BASF, Bayer, Henkel, Janssen-Cilag, Lonza, Qiagen und UCB. Die Geschäftsfelder der zum Teil noch in Gründung befindlichen Start-ups CherryKukess, Clickmer Systems, InnoMMT, M3DATEK Srl, Tubulis Technologies, VesselSens und Vitricell SA reichen von Entwicklungen für die medizinische Forschung und neue Therapeutika über 3D-Bio-Druck bis zur Medizintechnik mit einem mobilen Atemdiagnostikgerät und einer innovativen Methode zur Cryokonservierung von Zellen.

BioRiverBoost! Zwei HHU-Start-ups in der Finalrunde

Sieben Start-ups aus Bonn, Düsseldorf, Planegg, Lüttich (Belgien) und Parma (Italien) präsentieren sich vor den globalen Konzernen BASF, Bayer, Henkel, Janssen-Cilag, Lonza, Qiagen und UCB. Die Geschäftsfelder der zum Teil noch in Gründung befindlichen Start-ups CherryKukess, Clickmer Systems, InnoMMT, M3DATEK Srl, Tubulis Technologies, VesselSens und Vitricell SA reichen von Entwicklungen für die medizinische Forschung und neue Therapeutika über 3D-Bio-Druck bis zur Medizintechnik mit einem mobilen Atemdiagnostikgerät und einer innovativen Methode zur Cryokonservierung von Zellen.

State hacking and IT security

It is a widely held belief that freedom and security are antagonists. This blog post addresses an issue where freedom and security are on the same side: IT security, especially... MORE

Can Community Capital Finance the Next Generation of Farmers?

Christina Oatfield: After the 2008 economic recession, banks were more conservative about lending and the general public was more aware of the flaws in our financial institutions and related regulations. Since then, small businesses, start-ups, nonprofits, investors, and ordinary folks with modest savings have shown growing interest in fundraising strategies such as crowdfunding, crowdinvesting, direct public offerings (DPOs), and community capital.

Book of the day: Perspectives on Commoning

Perspectives on Commoning: Autonomist Principles and Practices. Edited by Guido Ruivenkamp and Andy Hilton.
Perspectives on Commoning explores the concept of ‘commoning’ as social practice, and the potential of the commons to provide a new left alternative.

Facebook will provide ads bought by Russian company to congressional committees investigating Trump ties

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Date published: September 21, 2017Los Angeles Times"“Governments have lost patience with platforms that look more like enablers than innovators to regulators these days, which suggests more regulation on the horizon,” said Albert Gidari of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School."

Google Gets Serious About Mapping Wheelchair Accessibility

Linda Poon at CityLab: “If there’s one thing Google’s got at its disposal, it’s a global army of avid map users. Now the company is leveraging that power to make its Maps feature more useful for people with mobility challenges—a group that often gets overlooked in the world of transit and urban innovation.

Why Information Matters

Essay by Luciano Floridi in Special Issue of Atlantis on Information, Matter and Life: “…As information technologies come to affect all areas of life, they are becoming implicated in our most important problems — their causes, effects, and solutions, the scientific investigations aimed at explaining them, the concepts created

Reclaiming personal data for the common good

Theo Bass at Nesta: “…The argument of our new report for DECODE is that more of the social value of personal data can be discovered by tools and platforms that give people the power to decide how their data is used. We need to flip the current model on its head, giving people back full control and respecting our data protection and fundamental rights framework.

A Guide to Tactical Data Engagement

Sunlight Foundation Press Release: “A Guide to Tactical Data Engagement is a brand new resource released today designed to help city leaders and residents collaborate on increasing the social impact of open government data.

We Shouldn’t Always Need a “Business Case” to Do the Right Thing

Alison Taylor in Harvard Business Review: “I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. Each year several clients raise the same issue: the need to get buy-in from a skeptical senior executive in order to demonstrate a concrete benefit that will follow a proposed investment in an ethical business initiative or function. The executive needs a business case.

Humanizing technology

Kaliya Young at Open Democracy: “Can we use the internet to enhance deep human connection and support the emergence of thriving communities in which everyone’s needs are met and people’s lives are filled with joy and meaning?….

Free Speech in the Algorithmic Society: Big Data, Private Governance, and New School Speech Regulation

Paper by Jack Balkin: “We have now moved from the early days of the Internet to the Algorithmic Society. The Algorithmic Society features the use of algorithms, artificial intelligence agents, and Big Data to govern populations. It also features digital infrastructure companies, large multi-national social media platforms, and search engines that sit between traditional nation states and ordinary individuals, and serve as special-purpose governors of speech.

How Blockchain Is Kickstarting the Financial Lives of Refugees

Mike Orcutt at MIT Technology Review: “Finland’s digital money system for asylum seekers shows what blockchain technology can offer the unbanked….

Speech Judge Robert Spano: Don‘t Kill the Messenger – Delfi and Its Progeny in the Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights

Data’s big moment? Here’s what you need to know

Opinion piece by Claire Melamed, and Mahamudu Bawumia: “Knowledge is power, and knowledge will empower humanity to tackle the most serious challenges of our time. We are all reliant on accurate knowledge to achieve the collective ambition of the Sustainable Development Goals, and the clock is ticking.

Building the Learning City

Daniel Castro at GovTech: “…Like other technologies, smart cities will evolve and mature over time. The earliest will provide basic insights from data and enable local leaders to engage in evidence-based governance. These efforts will be important, but they will represent only incremental change from what cities have already been doing.