The admission and integration of a large number of migrants and refugees represents a major challenge for cities and municipalities. These not only concern the areas of work, housing or education, but also security. The separation of ethnic groups in specific urban neighbourhoods, i.e. the so-called ethnic segregation, is classified as a risk factor that increases the risk for residents of becoming perpetrators or victims of a crime.The ESKrim project will investigate this assumption through a comprehensive and interdisciplinary research approach.

This post by Devin Balkind is reposted from Gotham Gazette

Reposted from Cooperativecity.org

Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren wird im
Sommersemester 2019
gemeinsam mit Herrn RA Rüdiger Schäfer ein Seminar veranstalten zu dem Thema:
„Medienprivatrecht“
Die Themenvergabe findet am Dienstag, den 18. Dezember 2018, um 9:00 Uhr s. t. im Arbeitsraum des ITM (3. OG) statt.
Nur TeilnehmerInnen dieser Themenvergabe können als TeilnehmerInnen für das Seminar berücksichtigt werden.
Folgende Themen stehen zur Auswahl:
 

Location

United States

See map: Google Maps

Location

United States

See map: Google Maps

Shweta Mohandas is participating as a mentor for Srishti Interlude (a set of workshops that help the design students to produce outputs on a given theme) the theme of this year is Privacy. The course would end on December 7, 2018.
1. Aravani Art Project

• Is LGBTQ desire only public at a queer pride parade?

• How private is my bedroom?

• How does an insult unfold in ‘public view’ ?

2. Padmini Ray Murray

Eva Blum-Dumontet, Research Officer at Privacy International, published her report on gender and privacy on November 28, 2018. The report, titled 'From Oppression to Liberation: Reclaiming the Right to Privacy', traces the history of privacy as a tool of oppressing women across different spheres, eventually calling for a feminist reclamation of privacy. Ambika Tandon was quoted.

The Dept. of IT & BT, Government of Karnataka organised the 21st edition of Bengaluru Tech Summit from November 29, 2018 to December 1, 2018 at Palace Grounds, Bengaluru. Aayush Rathi was a speaker at the panel on 'Future Tech and Future Law'.
The discussion was moderated by Tanvi Ratna. Aayush's co-panelists were Apar Gupta,Jaideep Reddy and Nilesh Trivedi. During his remarks, he attempted to focus on our AI research thus far and our suggestions for AI regulation.

Hasta el 16 de diciembre se podrá asistir en el GAM a la obra "Es tan lindo saber que usted existe", del director Sebastián de la Cuesta y que en su elenco incluye a Paulina Mellado, académica de la Facultad de Artes de la Universidad de Chile, así como a un octeto de jóvenes intérpretes de la misma unidad académica.Con una atractiva propuesta y un acompañamiento visual de vanguardia, la obra de danza contemporánea "Es tan lindo saber que usted existe", enfocada en la vejez, ha logrado llamar la atención del público tras su estreno el pasado 23 de noviembre.

A través del estudio de un manojo de fibras ópticas, científicos del Departamento de Física de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de la Universidad de Chile y del Instituto Milenio de Óptica (MIRO), demostraron que es posible transportar controladamente la luz localizada en regiones espaciales muy pequeñas, cuestión que representa un avance importante hacia la computación óptica. Este trabajo fue publicado en la última versión de la revista Physical Review A.

The winner of this year’s Chapterthon was announced this Tuesday, 4 December during InterCommunity 2018.
Chapterthon is a global Internet Society (ISOC) Chapters and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) marathon, where all the Internet Society members can participate by developing a project within a timeline and budget to achieve a common goal. The project winner is selected by the community through online vote.

In einer neuen Folge des ITM-Podcasts stellen die Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter der zivilrechtlichen Abteilung Matthias Mörike und Armin Strobel die Forschungsstelle Recht im Deutschen Forschungsnetz (DFN) vor. Die Forschungsstelle Recht im DFN beging im Sommer diesen Jahres ihr 20-jähriges Jubiläum.

Pranav Bidare and Saumyaa Naidu participated in the Facebook Privacy Design Sprint on Friday, November 30, 2018.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/facebook-privacy-design-sprint

The 2018 Freedom Online Conference took place from 28 to 30 November 2018 in Berlin. Elonnai Hickok participated as a speaker.
Elonnai attended the Freedom Online Coalition Advisory Network meeting and larger Freedom Online Coalition conference. The agenda can be found here.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren und Prof. Dr. Gerald Mäsch werden im Sommersemester 2019 wieder in Kooperation mit dem BVB 09 ein
Sportrechtseminar

The event was co-organized by Feminist Approaches to Bioethics and Sama - A Resource Centre for Women and Health and was held at St. John's Medical College in Bangalore between December 3 and 5, 2018.
Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon participated in the event as speakers. Aayush presented a paper 'Sexual Surveillance and Data Regimes: Development in the Data Economy' co-authored by himself and Ambika.
Download the agenda

We look for a researcher with a background in ethics or social sciences and competences in the field of artificial intelligence and/or theories of diversity and/or data privacy.

The apps have benefited mightily from the short-video craze that’s taken hold among preteens and adolescents but this is putting them in danger from predators, experts said.
The article by Nilesh Christopher was published in Economic Times on November 30, 2018.

How do we coordinate responses to attacks against Internet infrastructure and users? Internet technology has to scale or it won’t survive for long as the network of networks grows ever larger. But it’s not just the technology, it’s also the people, processes and organisations involved in developing, operating and evolving the Internet that need ways to scale up to the challenges that a growing global network can create.