Paper by Walter Flores: “Between 2007 and up to now, we have implemented five different methods for gathering evidence:
1) Surveys of health clinics with random sampling,
2) Surveys using tracers and convenience-based sampling,
3) Life histories of the users of health services,
4) User complaints submitted via text messages,
5) Video and photography documenting service delivery problems.
The Economist: “Response rates to surveys are plummeting all across the rich world. Last year only around 43% of households contacted by the British government responded to the LFS, down from 70% in 2001 (see chart). In America the share of households responding to the Current Population Survey (CPS) has fallen from 94% to 85% over the same period. The rest of Europe and Canada have seen similar trends.
Special Issue of Krisis: Journal of Contemporary Philosophy: “Digital data increasingly plays a central role in contemporary politics and public life. Citizen voices are increasingly mediated by proprietary social media platforms and are shaped by algorithmic ranking and re-ordering, but data informs how states act, too. This special issue wants to shift the focus of the conversation.
What are the political implications of meeting the established human right for everyone to enjoy an adequate standard of living? In short, it necessitates a redistribution of wealth and resources on an unprecedented scale across the world, which is why activists should resurrect the United Nations’ radical vision for achieving Article 25.
Join the P2P Foundation‘s Michel Bauwens and LabGov‘s Elena De Nictolis for this special event on Urban Commons Transitions. The event is organized by our colleagues at Oikos.be and the following text is taken from their website.
This 19 to 22 May 2018, MA students from the Strategic Communication Management program raveled t Tokyo,Japan to learn about new customer-centric approaches in Japanese marketing research as well as current social and cultural trends. The trip was led by Ajarn Jessada Salathong, PhD, who has much experience in Japan as a student and communication practitioner working in Japan,
NBER Working Paper by Austan Goolsbee: “This paper considers the role of policy in an AI-intensive economy (interpreting AI broadly). It emphasizes the speed of adoption of the technology for the impact on the job market and the implications for inequality across people and across places.
Article by Dave Huitema, Andrew Jordan, Stefania Munaretto and Mikael Hildén in Policy Sciences: “In the last two decades, many areas of the social sciences have embraced an ‘experimentalist turn’.
Paper by Jen-Hung Tseng et al in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: “…blockchain was recently introduced to the public to provide an immutable, consensus based and transparent system in the Fintech field. However, there are ongoing efforts to apply blockchain to other fields where trust and value are essential. In this paper, we suggest Gcoin blockchain as the base of the data flow of drugs to create transparent drug transaction data.
Report by Joshua New and Daniel Castro: “Increased automation with algorithms, particularly through the use of artificial intelligence (AI), offers opportunities for the public and private sectors to complete increasingly complex tasks with a level of productivity and effec
Market analyst Sanjay Mehta (name changed) has been keeping his Amazon Echo smart speaker mostly unplugged since reports surfaced last week of the device’s voice assistant, Alexa, inadvertently recording and sending out conversations of a family in the US.
The article by Mugdha Variyar was published in the Economic Times on May 29, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
Curation by Andrew Young, Anders Pedersen, and Stefaan G. Verhulst
Readings developed together with NRGI, within the context of our joint project on Blockchain technologies and the Governance of Extractives. Thanks to Joyce Zhang and Michelle Winowatan for research support.
We need your help! Please share any additional readings on the use of Blockchain Technologies in the Extractives Sector with blockchange@thegovlab.org.
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Dennis Di Lorenzo at Campus Technology: “Universities face many critical challenges — student retention, campus safety, curriculum development priorities, alumni engagement and fundraising, and inclusion of diverse populations.
At the philological Seminar (Philologisches Seminar) on tuesday the 29th of may, 2:30 till 6 pm, a didactical conference will take place, hosted by the philological seminar and the International Centre for Ethics in Sciences and Humanities. This workshop will be about questions about educational theory of ethics and ethics of educational theory, Speakers will be representatives of didactics, ethics and classsical philology .
Going dark with encryption: The U.S. FBI, for years now, has complained about its inability to access encrypted information held on the smartphones and other devices owned by criminal suspects. But the agency may have been overstating this so-called “going dark” problem, the Washington Post reported this week.
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Das ITM lädt alle Interessierten herzlich zu einem Vortrag unseres derzeitigen Gastwissenschaftlers aus Brasilien zum Thema Blockchain ein.
Blockchain im brasilianischen Rechtssystem
Montag, den 4. Juni 2018, um 14:30 Uhr
Prof. Dr. Marcos Wachowicz
Federal University of Paraná (Brasilien)
Ort:
Institut für Informations- Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht
Leonardo Campus 9
48149 Münster
1 & 2 juni in Varia, Rotterdam
Naar aanleiding van recente discussies en bijeenkomst in de Waag over alternatieve sociale media zou ik jullie graag willen uitnodigen voor `Welcome to the Federation`. De eerste in een reeks ontmoetingen waarbij we makers van open source gefedereerde sociale media uitnodigen in Varia in Rotterdam om te komen praten over hun project.
