Auf Einladung des Vereins zur Förderung der zivilrechtlichen Abteilung des Instituts für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht fand am 10.11.2018 die Mitgliederversammlung des Vereins und ein Ehemaligentreffen in den Räumlichkeiten des Instituts statt.
Martijn Arets: As sharing economy companies come under fire for exploitative labor practices, data privacy issues, and more, there’s another movement that’s been brewing to counter some of the negative impacts of these platforms. Called “platform cooperatives,” these digital enterprises are built on foundations used by traditional cooperatives.
Have you ever heard of compulsory heterosexuality? This concept described how heterosexuality is assumed, enforced and viewed as an obligation regardless of one’s own sexual preferences, and it was the subject of one of the articles that members of the LGBT user group wrote about in different languages in Stockholm, Sweden, last August.
On November 2 Kennisland organised a networking event in their “Out of Office” format on open access. A screening of the documentary Paywall: The Business of Scholarship took place which focuses on the current state of Open Access publishing and showcases some fierce proponents of open publishing.
Who supplies your Internet? If you live in urban Africa, you probably get Internet access through your mobile phone or through fibre at the office or home. When you travel to rural or underserved areas, there is probably limited or no Internet because mobile network operators and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have yet to reach these areas. But what if people in rural and underserved areas could build their own networks to provide the telecommunications services that they need?
Ob im Verdauungstrakt, in Gewässern oder auf dem Feld: Mikroorganismen sind nie Einzelgänger, sondern leben immer in Gemeinschaften unterschiedlicher Arten. Das ermöglicht ihnen den Austausch von Nährstoffen und erhöht die Fitness der Gemeinschaft. Im Labor sind mikrobielle Gemeinschaften jedoch eine Ausnahme, ein Großteil der Forschung bezieht sich auf isolierte Einzelkulturen. Dies kann auch die Forschungsergebnisse verfälschen. Um diesen Missstand zu lösen, arbeitete das iGEM-Team der HHU an molekularen Werkzeugen, um verschiedene Mikroorganismen in Ko-Kulturen zu züchten.
We citizens battling for civil rights on the Internet will meet our obligation and fight the good fight. We’ll stop this attack on the Internet and democracy sooner or later.
Spanish-language cartoon Tiranía (Tyranny). Superstition sits on the throne, advised by a priest and a devil by Claudio Linati, 1826. Wikicommons. Public domain.
A co-autored article by Karen Hansen-Kuhn and Oliver Moore: As the role of technology increases in farming and food, and corporate powers use this to extend their power, we need to strive for technological developments that are appropriate for farmers, for eaters and for the planet. Welcome to #AgTechTakeback.
Roden erhielt den Preis auf dem Morgagni Symposium 2018 in Venedig, der alle zwei Jahre stattfindenden wissenschaftlichen Tagung der medizinischen Fakultät der Universität Padua. „Dieser Preis stellt eine besondere Anerkennung für die langjährige Zusammenarbeit mit jungen Nachwuchswissenschaftlern und für die kontinuierliche Forschung meiner Arbeitsgruppen dar“, erklärte Prof. Michael Roden, Vorstand am DDZ.
In Deutschland gibt es mehr als 2,6 Millionen alleinerziehende Eltern. Deren Alltag unter der Belastung von Beruf und Kind, ohne einen entlastenden Partner ist oft sehr fordernd. Betroffene geraten körperlich und psychisch unter erheblichen Druck, das Erkrankungsrisiko steigt. Deshalb werden diese wachsende Bevölkerungsgruppe und ihre notwendige Unterstützung auch ausdrücklich im Präventionsgesetz erwähnt.
HHU-Rektorin Prof. Dr. Anja Steinbeck lud, auch das hat bereits Tradition, in den Industrie-Club im Zentrum Düsseldorfs ein, um die Neuzugänge offiziell zu begrüßen und zu deren Berufung zu gratulieren. Dabei betonte die Rektorin, dass die HHU in ihrem Selbstverständnis eine Bürgeruniversität ist, die ihr Wissen und ihre Erkenntnisse mit der Öffentlichkeit und der Gesellschaft im Großraum Düsseldorf teilt. In diesem Zusammenhang spiele, so Prof.
Valentina Romei in the Financial Times: “…Behind the push for open data is a desire to make governments more transparent, accountable and efficient — but also to allow businesses to create products and services that spark economic development. The global annual opportunity cost of failing to do this effectively is about $5tn, according to one estimate from McKinsey, the consultancy.
Paper by Bill Howe et al: “Data too sensitive to be “open” for analysis and re-purposing typically remains “closed” as proprietary information. This dichotomy undermines efforts to make algorithmic systems more fair, transparent, and accountable.
Report by Michael Graglia, Christopher Mellon and Tim Robustelli: “Our interest in identity systems was an inevitable outgrowth of our earlier work on blockchain-based1 land registries.2 Property registries, which at the simplest level are ledgers of who has which rights to which asset, require a very secure and reliable means of identifying both people and properties.
Atul Gawande at the New Yorker: “….More than ninety per cent of American hospitals have been computerized during the past decade, and more than half of Americans have their health information in the Epic system. Seventy thousand employees of Partners HealthCare—spread across twelve hospitals and hundreds of clinics in New England—were going to have to adopt the new software.
Paper by Jennifer Shkabatur: “Data platform companies (such as Facebook, Google, or Twitter) amass and process immense amounts of data that is generated by their users. These companies primarily use the data to advance their commercial interests, but there is a growing public dismay regarding the adverse and discriminatory impacts of their algorithms on society at large.
This Sunday, November 11, 2018, the GovLab and the Bertelsmann Foundation will join nearly 20,000 experts and practitioners from the fields of politics, economics, academia, media, and civil society for the inaugural Paris Peace Forum, to present their project: People-Led Innovation.
Professor falou sobre o futuro da China no governo Xi JinpingNesta quarta-feira, dia 07/11, a FGV Direito Rio recebeu o professor Xie Chuntao, da Escola do Comitê Central do Partido Comunista Chinês para uma palestra sobre o futuro da China no governo Xi Jinping. O evento foi organizado pelo Núcleo de Estudos Brasil-China da FGV Direito Rio, em parceria com o Consulado Geral da China no Rio de Janeiro e com apoio do Conselho Empresarial Brasil-China.
Confira abaixo os highlights da fala do professor Xie Chuntao na FGV Direito Rio:
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Samantha Cole at Motherboard: “Wikipedia, the internet’s encyclopedia, is run entirely by volunteers—people who spend large swaths of their personal time making sure the information that
