Book by Gordon C.C. Douglas: “When local governments neglect public services or community priorities, how do concerned citizens respond? In The Help-Yourself City, Gordon Douglas looks closely at people who take urban planning into their own hands with homemade signs and benches, guerrilla bike lanes and more. Douglas explores the frustration, creativity, and technical expertise behind these interventions, but also the position of privilege from which they often come.

Report by the WebFoundation: “The exponential growth of data provides powerful new ways for governments and companies to understand and respond to challenges and opportunities.

The post Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius in the news about Cambridge Analytica and online political microtargeting appeared first on IVIR.

How do we connect everyone, everywhere, to the Internet? What role do “community networks” play in helping connect more people? How can we best use wireless spectrum and what are the issues with that? How can satellites fit into the picture? And what is the state of satellite technology? And what about the role of “space lasers”?
All that and more was the subject of yesterday’s featured panel at the Technical Plenary at IETF 101 in London.

On March 13-17, 2018 The GovLab brought together two dozen crowdlaw experts from around the world to collaborate on developing new ways to include more and more diverse opinions and expertise at every stage of the law- and policy-making process. The convening was held at the Rockefeller Foundation’s famed Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy. This post is the first in a series of blog posts from the crowdlaw conference participants.

Landtags-Vizepräsidentin Angela Freimuth würdigte die Arbeit der Universitätskliniken in Aachen, Bonn, Bochum, Düsseldorf, Essen, Köln und Münster, deren Aufgaben die Krankenversorgung, die Forschung und die Lehre seien. Ohne wissenschaftliche Forschung beispielsweise sei kein medizinischer Fortschritt möglich. Sie betonte: "Neue effiziente und schonende Methoden in Diagnostik und Therapie helfen den Menschen im Kampf gegen viele Krankheiten und deren unliebsame Folgen. In der Regel werden neue Verfahren erstmals in der Universitätsmedizin eingesetzt."

A few weeks back we announced Michel Bauwens’ intervention at Democracy Day in Belfast. Now, courtesy of our friend and colleague Kevin Flanagan, we present the audio for Michel’s talk.
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Das inzwischen auch an vielen Hochschulen in Deutschland implementierte Konzept des Service-Learning sieht eine Verschränkung von wissenschaftlichem Arbeiten und ehrenamtlicher Praxiserfahrung vor. Wichtig ist dabei, dass Studierende selbst auf dem Hintergrund einer intensiven Erarbeitung von theoretischen und empirischen Grundlagen eigene Projektideen für die Praxis entwickeln und umsetzen. Insofern wird ein zweisemestriger Zyklus von Erarbeitung der wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen sowie empirische Bedarfsermittlung (1. Semester), Entwicklung und Umsetzung von konkreten Teilprojekten (2.

In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]

We are pleased to announce that nominations for the 2018 Jonathan B. Postel Service Award are now open. Do you know someone who should be a recipient?
This annual award is presented to an individual or organization that has made outstanding contributions in service to the data communications community and places particular emphasis on those who have supported and enabled others.

With recent news reports discussing changes with net neutrality, many are wondering, "What does it mean for my startup?!" It’s an important issue that affects anyone whose work and livelihood involves the web. For the sake of your business, you should be aware of the changes and how they affect your business.March 22, 2018New Orleans Entrepreneur Week

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RSVP is required for this free event. April 12, 2018Stanford Law School

Paper by Eric Forbush and  Nicol Turner-Lee: “In June 2017, Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed a new mission for Facebook, which was to “[g]ive people the power to build community and bring the world closer together” during the company’s first Community Summit. Yet, his declaration comes in the backdrop of a politically polarized America.

Julia Apostle in the Financial Times: “The unsettling revelations about how data firm Cambridge Analytica surreptitiously exploited the personal information of Facebook users is yet another demoralising reminder of how much data has been amassed about us, and of how little control we have over it.

Community Networks are a matter of autonomy, which has been demonstrated by the indigenous communities of Mexico and the world. Like languages, the traditional crop-growing system milpa, the communal land, assembly, and tequio – or community work – it is a tool that addresses the needs of humanity.

Das jährlich gemeinsam mit der Saarländischen Landesbank (SaarLB) ausgeschriebene Stipendium fördert leistungsstarke Nachwuchstalente der DFH mit deutsch-französischem Hintergrund und einer Ausbildung in den Studiengängen Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Rechtswissenschaften oder Naturwissenschaften/Mathematik/Informatik und ist mit je 3000 Euro dotiert.  

Como un mensaje de unidad ante el proteccionismo que resurge en la arena internacional ha sido catalogado el Tratado Integral y Progresista de Asociación Transpacífico (CPTPP por su sigla en inglés) firmado la semana pasada en Santiago por 11 países del Asia Pacífico. El decano de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios (FEN) de la Universidad de Chile, Manuel Agosín, conversó con Prensa U.

A solo seis días de su inauguración, miembros de la Unidad de Memoria alojada en el Campus Oriente de la Facultad de Medicina vinculada al Hospital del Salvador, se reunieron con la ministra Agnes Buzyn, y su par chileno, Emilio Santelices. La preocupación frente a las demencias producto principalmente del envejecimiento, fue el eje de la conversación en la que participó la profesora Andrea Slachevsky -quien lidera este nuevo centro-, el prorrector Rafael Epstein, y el director del Hospital, Carlos Altamirano, entre otros.

En su Tercera Sesión Ordinaria, el Consejo Universitario, órgano colegiado de carácter ejecutivo de la Universidad, que integran el Rector, el prorrector, los decanos de las distintas Facultades y dos representantes de la Presidencia de la República, más la participación de los vicerrectores, directores de Instituto y los representantes de los organismos gremiales de nuestro plantel, aprobó la convocatoria a elección del Rector de nuestra Institución.