Dissertation by Jeong Hyun Kim: “…examines direct democracy’s implications for political equality by focusing on how it influences and modifies political attitudes and behaviors of marginalized groups. Using cases and data from Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States, I provide a comprehensive, global examination of how direct democratic institutions affect political participation, especially of political minority or marginalized groups.

Die DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) ist die weltweit  größte Förderorganisation für den internationalen Austausch von Studierenden und Wissenschaftlern. Jährlich wird ein Preis verliehen, der  herausragende, ausländische Studierende und Promovierende auszeichnen soll, die sich durch besondere akademische Leistungen und bemerkenswertes gesellschaftliches oder interkulturelles Engagement hervorgetan haben. In diesem Jahr geht der Preis an Toshihiro Wada, der bei der WWU am ITM als Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft tätig ist.

Open Access Book edited by Harald Hornmoen and Klas Backholm: ” This book is about how different communicators – whether professionals, such as crisis managers, first responders and journalists, or private citizens and disaster victims – have used social media to communicate about risks and crises. It is also about how these very different actors can play a crucial role in mitigating or preventing crises.

Colin J. Bennett and Charles D. Raab at Regulation & Governance: “The repertoire of policy instruments within a particular policy sector varies by jurisdiction; some “tools of government” are associated with particular administrative and regulatory traditions and political cultures. It is less clear how the instruments associated with a particular policy sector may change over time, as economic, social, and technological conditions evolve.

Chapter by Ana Pego and Maria do Rosário Matos Bernardo in Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Marketing for Global Reach in the Digital Economy: “Urban living labs (ULL) are a new concept which involves users in innovation and development and are regarded as a way of meeting the innovation challenges faced by information and communicati

Following the activities that took place during the cultiMake event, organised last August in Ioannina (Greece) in the context of the Distributed Design Market Platform project, the P2P Lab’s aim was to communicate further the outcomes of the event. To this end, two of our participants presented some of the technological solutions that were developed during the workshop.

Die Aktion „pART of Research“ fand in diesem Jahr bereits zum dritten Mal statt. Auf die Ausschreibung unter dem Motto „Diversity in Research/Objekte-Orte-Menschen“ gingen 27 Einsendungen ein, die universitätsweite zur Abstimmung gestellt wurden. Mit 1400 Stimmen wurden die zwölf beliebtesten Bilder ausgewählt, die nun Teil des pART of Research-Kalenders 2019 sind.

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As the decentralisation movement grows, I consider the characteristics of decentralisation, what decentralisation is a tactic for, why and what work still needs to happen to re-decentralize the digital world.
Decentralisation has gone mainstream

Je nach Ausstellungsinstitution und Sammlungsschwerpunkt werden dabei nicht nur unterschiedliche Tätigkeitsbereiche der Kuratorinnen und Kuratoren deutlich, sondern zweifellos auch verschiedene Auffassungen von dem, was eine Kunstaustellung heute leisten kann und soll, vorgestellt. An konkreten Beispielen werden die Gastreferenten diverse Arten, Konzepte, Funktionen, Gestaltungen, Rezeptionen und Wirkungen von Kunstausstellungen erörtern und damit auch ihre eigenen beruflichen Aufgabenfelder sowie konkreten Projekte skizzieren. 

This post was jointly written by Shubham Ghimire, Chief Operating Officer and Nikesh Balami, Chief Executive Officer of Open Knowledge Nepal as a part of the Youth Empowerment, Youth Leadership and Data Workshop. It has been reposted from the Open Knowledge Nepal blog.

Der Vortrag berichtet von Damen des Kulturbetriebs, die Heine als Student kennen- und schätzen lernte, von mythischen Frauengestalten wie der „Loreley“, von Italienerinnen, die er „umschwärmte“, aber nicht verstehen konnte und von Prostituierten in London als Protagonistinnen seiner Sozial-Studien.
Der Vortrag lässt Heine zu Wort kommen über „seine“ Frauen. Von Gudrun Salger erstmals vertonte und mit dem Akkordeon gespielte Gedichte – gesungen von Stephanie-Marie Dawid – lassen Heines jeweilige Gemütslage zwischen Liebe und Leid, Schwärmerei und Schmerz anklingen.

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Big Brother is watching you. And not only that – new methods of evaluating and manipulating behavior are starting to threaten our freedom. In her new book “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power”, Harvard economist Shoshana Zuboff takes a critical look at the new…
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India’s new human-trafficking bill could criminalise sex workers and curtail free speech.
The article by Laxmi Murthy was published in Himal South Asian on September 26, 2018.

Shweta Mohandas participated in a Round Table Discussion on Personal Data Protection Bill, orgnanised by SFLC on September 25, 2018 in Bangalore. She also moderated the first session - Data Protection Principles (Rights and Obligations).
See the agenda of the event here.

Elonnai Hickok, Sunil Abraham and Ambika Tandon participated in a meeting organized by IDRC for grantees under their networked economies programme to discuss gender-based outputs and development outcomes in their work. The event was held in Ottawa on September 20 - 21, 2018, facilitated by Gender at Work.

Sunil Abraham, Anubha Sinha and Swaraj Paul Barooah attended the Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest, in Washington DC, from September 24 - 29, 2018. The event was co-organized by PublicCitizen, Washington College of Law, American University, O'Neill Institute and the American Assembly, Columbia University.
CIS participated in several of the sessions spread over the 5 days:

Arindrajit Basu attended the event 'Cyber-security in the age of Smart Manufacturing.' The event 'BTS - CyberComm 2018' was organised by the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce & industry (FICCI) in association with Karnataka Innovation and Technology Society, and Government of Karnataka at The Lalit Ashok, Bengaluru on September 26, 2018.

The 12-digit Aadhaar number is now out of bounds for fintech companies in India.
The article by Nishant Sharma was published in Bloomberg Quint on September 27, 2018. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.

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Book by Jamie Susskind: “Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society? The great political debate of the last century was about how much of our collective life should be determined by the state and what should be left to the market and civil society. In the future, the question will be how far our lives should be directed and controlled by powerful digital systems — and on what terms?