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A Scuttlebutt Love Story

Scuttlebutt aims to harmonize four perspectives of life: Environment reflecting Technology reflecting Community reflecting Society.
We acknowledge the natural, the virtual, and the social environments. Our responsibility is to recognize which resources are abundant, which are sufficient, and adapt accordingly through efficiency.

Schlichtungsverfahren abgeschlossen: UKD kann Entlastungskurs fortsetzen und schafft 180 zusätzliche Stellen

Wesentliche Punkte für das Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf sind:

9. September: Herbstpflanzenbörse im Botanischen Garten

Aus dem Ausbildungsgarten der Staudengärtner werden verschiedene Pflanzen angeboten. Dazu gehören klassische Gartenstauden wie Astern, Phlox und Lavendel, verschiedene heimische Pflanzen – zum Beispiel die Moschus-Malve, die Echte Schlüsselblume und der Rainfarn – sowie Stauden für den Steingarten und den Schattenbereich wie die Zwerg-Funkie Hosta ‚Thumbnail‘. Zu finden sind ebenfalls unterschiedliche Kräuter wie Minzen, Zitronenverbene, Salbei, Thymian, Rosmarin und Zimmer-Knoblauch. Abgerundet wird das Angebot durch Gehölze unterschiedlicher Größe.

Essay of the Day: Unboxing the Sharing Economy

The Sociological Review is thrilled to be launching the first of their 2018 monographs, , edited by Davide Arcidiacono (Universita Cattolica, Milan), Alessandro Gandini (King’s College, London) and Ivana Pais (Universita Cattolica, Milan). For over fifty years, the Sociological Review monograph series has showcased the best and most innovative sociologically informed work, producing intellectually stimulating volumes that promote emerging and established academics.

World Library and Information Congress 2018

Swaraj Paul Barooah was a speaker at two panels during the World Library and Information Congress 2018 (WLIC2018), organised by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) in Kuala Lumpur on August 26 and 27, 2018.
Swaraj's first panel, titled "Intellectual Freedom in a Polarised World" was selected as one of 9 sessions to be live-streamed and recorded, out of 249 sessions in total. The recording can be accessed on YouTube.

The summer of hate speech

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Sigilo online, investigações criminais e cooperação internacional


Nuevo Ministerio de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, ¿y ahora qué?

Autoridades, académicos e investigadores de la Universidad de Chile expresan sus expectativas y sus visiones sobre los desafíos que se abren en materia de inversión, relevancia y participación en el fomento de la ciencia, tras la creación de esta nueva institucionalidad. A continuación, las opiniones de los académicos y académicas María Teresa Ruiz, Jorge Babul, Francisco Martínez, Arturo Squella y Andrés Couve.

Más de mil 500 personas participarán en el Día Mundial del Folklore

Más de setenta serán las agrupaciones folklóricas de diferentes nacionalidades y danzas que participarán en la séptima versión del Día Mundial del Folklore el próximo 25 de agosto, evento que comenzará en el Parque San Borja y continuará por la principal arteria de la capital como pasacalle. La actividad, organizada por el Ballet Folklórico Antumapu de la Universidad de Chile, es completamente gratuita y abierta a la comunidad.

Call for Participation – ICANN DNSSEC Workshop at ICANN63 Barcelona

Do you have a great idea about DNSSEC or DANE that you’d like to share with the wider community? If so, and you’re planning to be in Barcelona, Spain for ICANN63 in October 2018, submit a proposal to present your idea at the DNSSEC Workshop!

Aula aberta: Novos Desafios do Direito Societário

Aula aberta: Novos Desafios do Direito Societário19h00O Evento: A FGV DIREITO RIO apresenta a Aula aberta: Novos Desafios do Direito Societário que integra o programa do curso Direito Societário e Mercado de Capitais. O curso visa aprofundar o conhecimento na área de direito societário, especialmente no que se refere às sociedades limitadas, anônimas, bem como à compreensão do funcionamento do mercado de valores mobiliários, sua regulação e fiscalização pela Comissão de Valores Mobiliários.

Edital de Seleção de Assistentes de Pesquisa

Número de vagas: 2

First APrIGF in the Pacific a Resounding Success

The 2018 Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) which was held in Port Vila, Vanuatu from August 13-16 came to an exciting close after a week of valuable dialogue on Internet Governance issues in the region.  This was the first time the APrIGF was held in the Pacific and the local hosts, Vanuatu’s Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO), Vanuatu Telecommunications and Radiocommunications Regulator (TRR), and the local people of Vanuatu showed the APrI

Symposium „Gesund und glücklich schwanger – Einblicke aus der Medizin und Psychologie“

Es richtet sich an Psychologinnen und Psychologen, Hebammen, Gynäkologeninnen und Gynäkologen sowie Ärztinnen und Ärzte angrenzender Fachbereiche. Das Symposium unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Tanja Fehm, Direktorin der Klinik für Frauenheilkunde des UKD, und Dr. Nora Schaal, Institut für Experimentelle Psychologie der HHU, gibt einen Einblick in die aktuelle geburtshilfliche Forschung zur Verbesserung der Rahmenbedingungen für Schwangerschaft und Geburt.

Data protection law in upheaval?

Less than two months had passed since the General Data Protection Regulation entered into force on 25 May 2018, and yet its impact could already be seen everywhere. In addition to a flood of emails asking for our (renewed) consent, countless new or re-formulated data protection policies “emerged”, while the public debate hailed a “new…
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Origin Privacy: Protecting Privacy in the Big-Data Era

Paper by Helen Nissenbaum, Sebastian Benthall, Anupam Datta, Michael Carl Tschantz, and Piot Mardziel: “Machine learning over big data poses challenges for our conceptualization of privacy. Such techniques can discover surprising and counteractive associations that take innocent looking data and turns it into important inferences about a person. For example, the buying carbon monoxide monitors has been linked to paying credit card bills, while buying chrome-skull car accessories predicts not doing so.

How can Blockchain enable Elinor Ostrom’s 8 commons principles?

Samer Hassan, researcher at Harvard University’s Berkman Center and UCM in Madrid, who recently received a 1.5M€ grant to build blockchain-based democratic and sustainable organizations for the collaborative economy (p2pmodels.eu), leads a working session exploring how blockchain technologies, can be utilized to create new ways to cooperate: building new commons-oriented, blockchain-driven initiatives which incorporate Elinor Ostrom’s 8 Principles for Managing a Co

„Physiognomien des Lebens: Anthropologie, Medizin, Kultur“

Im Rahmen der Tagung „Physiognomien des Lebens: Anthropologie, Medizin, Kultur“ (Or­ganisation: Prof. Dr. Vittoria Borsò; Jun.-Prof. Sieglinde Borvitz; Dr. Luca Viglialoro), die in Kooperation mit der Universität Palermo vom 12. bis 14. September im Haus der Universität stattfindet, werden philosophisch-literarische Reflexionen über Körperbewe­gungen und Körpermerkmale, welche aus der wissenschaftlichen Tradition der sogenann­ten Physiognomik stammen, analysiert.

Celebrating One Year of the Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India Judgment

Shweta Mohandas was a panelist at the event, "Celebrating One Year of the Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India Judgment", organised by Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, and the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi. It took place on Friday, 24 August 2018 at India International Centre, New Delhi.

20 years of Google: Privacy, fake news and the future

Google once directed you to information. Today, it’s often the source of information, using data you and others have shared, often without you realising it. Public knowledge goes where Google takes it. And 20 years on, not everyone’s happy with the journey.
The article by Rachel Lopez was published in Hindustan Times on August 26, 2018. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.