El Centro Tecnológico para la Innovación Alimentaria (CeTA) desarrollará nuevos ingredientes saludables, alimentos procesados y empaques, en un trabajo colaborativo, multidisciplinario e interinstitucional que reúne a la Universidad de Chile, la Pontificia Universidad Católica, la Universidad de Talca y la Universidad de La Frontera, junto a la Fundación Fraunhofer Chile Research y la Fundación Chile, contando además con financiamiento Corfo.En la Casa Central de la Universidad de Chile se oficializó la firma del comodato mediante el cual la Casa de Estudios cedió el terren

Conférenciers : Alexis Fitzjean O’Cobhthaigh du collectif d’action juridique Les exégètes amateurs (Paris)
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Today was the deadline for the public to submit comments on the Australian government's draft Assistance and Access Bill 2018. The proposed legislation drew sharp criticism from numerous tech companies and civil society groups, in Australia and elsewhere, for the threats it poses to computer security, human rights, due process, and transparency.
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Commonspoly is a hack and a critique of the game Monopoly. Players aim first to re-municipalize private goods and then turn them into a Commons – you’ll learn why this is the best strategy while playing the game. Rather than compete against each other, players must overcome their conditioning and ‘rational, self-interest’ to instead maximize cooperative behaviours and create a commons-oriented locality. Who wins? Everyone in the community! Unless the speculators take over…which we must fight at all costs. United we stand!

Prying eyes: The so-called Five Eyes – the surveillance alliance of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K. and the U.S. – pledged not to weaken encryption, at the same time as the countries are pushing tech companies to give them access to encrypted evidence, notes SearchSecurity. Representatives of the five countries released a new “Statement of Principles on Access to Evidence and Encryption,” after a recent meeting in Australia.

„Solche kombinierten Mehrorgan-Transplantationen sind sehr selten und können nur in wenigen spezialisierten Zentren durchgeführt werden. Mehrere Fachdisziplinen müssen hier eng Hand in Hand arbeiten. Das war beeindruckendes Teamwork hier am UKD“, betont Prof. Dr. Artur Lichtenberg, Direktor der Klinik für Kardiovaskuläre Chirurgie an der Düsseldorfer Uniklinik.

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Introduction by Jean-Claude Ruano-Borbalan and Bertrand Bocquet of Special Issue of Technology and Innovation (French) : “The last half century has seen considerable development of institutional interfaces participating in the “great standardization” of science and innovation systems. The limitations of this model appeared for many economic, political or cultural reasons.

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Xarxa per la sobirania energètica (Xse) Catalonia brings like-minded groups together to fight for change in the energy sector locally, and collaborates with similar initiatives elsewhere in Spain, Europe and Latin America.

Paul Nemitz at Royal Society Philosophical Transactions: “Given the foreseeable pervasiveness of Artificial Intelligence in modern societies, it is legitimate and necessary to ask the question how this new technology must be shaped to support the maintenance and strengthening of constitutional democracy.

Book by Ian I. Mitroff: “The recent data controversy with Facebook highlights the tech industry as a whole was utterly unprepared for the backlash it faced as a result of its business model of selling user data to third parties. Despite the predominant role that technology plays in all of our lives, the controversy also revealed that many tech companies are reactive, rather than proactive, in addressing crises.

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Author(s): Riana PfefferkornPublication Date: September 9, 2018Publication Type: Other WritingComments submitted to the Australian Government's Department of Home Affairs on its exposure draft of the Assistance and Access Bill 2018.

Laura Bliss at CityLab: “A data-driven “neighborhood of the future” masterminded by a Google corporate sibling, the Quayside project could be a milestone in digital-age city-building. But after a year of scandal in Silicon Valley, questions about privacy and security remain…

Book by Eric Klinenberg: “We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country hasn’t seen since the Civil War. Pundits and politicians are calling for us to come together, to find common purpose. But how, exactly, can this be done?In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward.

Paper by Fabrizio Di Mascio,  Alessandro Natalini and Federica Cacciatore: This research contributes to the expanding literature on the determinants of government transparency.

Zoë Corbyn at The Observer: “The decentralised web, or DWeb, could be a chance to take control of our data back from the big tech firms. So how does it work and when will it be here?...What is the decentralised web? 

Written by Matt Stannard and cross-posted from Sharable