Other News from Participating Centers

"Onze Supremos - O Supremo em 2016" - Felipe Recondo

Felipe Recondo - Sócio-fundador do JOTA, site de informações jurídicas: “Para entender a crise política de 2016 é necessário entender também as atuações e omissões do Supremo, para ver como o supremo atuou como árbitro ou como interferiu na crise.”
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"Onze Supremos - O Supremo em 2016" - Prof. Diego Werneck Arguelhes

Diego Werneck Arguelhes, professor da FGV Direito Rio: “Em 2016, mais do que nunca, o Supremo esteve no centro da vida política nacional.”
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Gleich zwei UKD-Gruppen sind im Düsseldorfer Straßenkarneval mit dabei

Für ihre Karnevals-Premiere hat sich die Augenklinik etwas Besonderes ausgedacht: Lebensgroße Augen werden die Truppe begleiten. Im Rosenmontagszug hat sie die Nummer 18.01 und läuft direkt hinter dem Prunkwagen der „KG vom Niederrhein“.Alte Hasen im Karnevalstreiben sind dagegen die Kollegen der Neurochirurgie: Bereits zum zweiten Mal laufen sie bei einem Düsseldorfer Veedels-Umzug mit.

SC Constitution Bench on Aadhaar – Final Hearing (Day IX)

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 […]

Sanierung der „Alten Chirurgie“ am UKD: Fassade des Bettenhauses West wird erneuert

„Im Rahmen des Bauantrages wurde auch eine vorzeitige Fassadenprüfung speziell hinsichtlich des Brandschutzes durchgeführt. Unser Bettenhaus West hat mit acht Etagen und einer Höhe von ca. 30 Metern den Status eines Hochhauses, wie es bei vielen anderen Krankenhäusern ebenfalls der Fall ist. Angesichts der bevorstehenden Teilsanierung des Gebäudes konnten wir  in sehr enger und konstruktiver Zusammenarbeit mit dem Bauaufsichtsamt und der Berufsfeuerwehr der Stadt Düsseldorf nun Planungssicherheit und Transparenz zu den seinerzeit verbauten Materialien schaffen“, so Dr.

Sharing Cities for Urban Transformation: Narrative, Policy and Practice

Commercial sharing platforms have reshaped the transportation and housing sectors in cities and raised challenges for urban policy makers seeking to balance market disruption with community protections. Transformational sharing seeks to strengthen the urban commons to address social justice, equity and sustainability. This paper uses Transformative Social Innovation theory to develop a comparative analysis of Shareable’s Sharing Cities Network and Airbnb’s Home Sharing Clubs.

Theorie und Praxis des Tango

In dem Workshop wurde der Tango mit seiner „multimodalen Sprache“ (als Musik, Text, Tanz und gesellschaftliches Ereignis mit seinen spezifischen Codes) aus Sicht verschiedener Fachrichtungen betrachtet. Wie manifestiert sich der Tango Argentino, seit 2009 UNESCO-Welterbe, im Zeitalter der Globalisierung?

The P2P Lab’s Plan for 2018-19

Capitalism swims like a shark. And upon the shark’s fin an exciting prospect is dancing: commons-based peer production.
This is the prospect we’ve been trying to understand for the last decade. In the next two years, we aim to ground our ideas for a commons transition on stronger empirical evidence.
The main questions we’ll try to answer, which make for four different projects, follow:

Open source appliances for sustainable development

Open source products are essential to build a more sustainable, fair and circular economy

Take a look at this project by some of the people in our network. If you’d like to support it, please click on this page to contribute.
How does open source creates social and sustainable impact? If we make products open source this will bring benefits in different manners:

Landscape of Innovation Approaches

Bas Leurs at Nesta: “Through our work in the Innovation Skills team, we often find ourselves being asked by governments and civil servants which innovation tools and techniques they should use. So what innovation approaches are there that can be applied in the public sector? And how are they related to each other?

A Really Bad Blockchain Idea: Digital Identity Cards for Rohingya Refugees

Wayan Vota at ICTworks: “The Rohingya Project claims to be a grassroots initiative that will empower Rohingya refugees with a blockchain-leveraged financial ecosystem tied to digital identity cards….
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Artificial Intelligence and Foreign Policy

Paper by Ben Scott, Stefan Heumann and Philppe Lorenz: “The plot-lines of the development of Artificial Intelligenc

The Entrepreneurial Impact of Open Data

Sheena Iyengar and  Patrick Bergemann at Opening Governance Research Network: “…To understand how open data is being used to spur innovation and create value, the Governance Lab (GovLab) at NYU Tandon School of Engineering conducted the first ever census of companies that use open data.

Is full transparency good for democracy?

Austin Sarat at The Conversation: “Public knowledge about what government officials do is essential in a representative democracy. Without such knowledge, citizens cannot make informed choices about who they want to represent them or hold public officials accountable.

Big Data, Thick Mediation, and Representational Opacity

Rafael Alvarado and Paul Humphreys in the New Literary History: “In 2008, the phrase “big data” shifted in meaning.

Is your software racist?

Li Zhou at Politico: “Late last year, a St. Louis tech executive named Emre Şarbak noticed something strange about Google Translate. He was translating phrases from Turkish — a language that uses a single gender-neutral pronoun “o” instead of “he” or “she.” But when he asked Google’s tool to turn the sentences into English, they seemed to read like a children’s book out of the 1950’s.

CMPF Director, Pier Luigi Parcu Interviewed for EUI Times

CMPF director Pier Luigi Parcu was recently interviewed for an article in the newspaper of the European University Institute, EUI Times.
In the article ”Social media: Democracy’s poisoned chalice,” by EUI Times journalist Henry Goodwin, Parcu speaks about the effects of social media on democracy.

The global Internet requires a global, collaborative approach to Internet Governance

Now more then ever, the Internet Society believes in the need to preserve the values of openness, inclusiveness and transparency that have always been at the heart of the Internet. A coherent global governance model for the global Internet that includes everyone is key to achieving this vision. But how can we get more governments to embrace the kind of collaborative governance that has shaped the Internet we know and use today? How can we improve and expand the model so that it becomes more widely adopted around the world? How can YOU help that to happen?

Libertarian Municipalism: Networked Cities as Resilient Platforms for Post-Capitalist Transition

We live in a time of terminal crisis for centralized institutions of all kinds, including the two most notable members of the genus: states and large corporations. Both a major cause and major symptom of this transition is the steady reduction in the amount of labor needed to produce a given level of output, and consequently in total aggregate demand for wage labor.

The Platform Co-op Is Coming for Uber

Still not familiar with Platform Coops? This article, written by MJ Kaplan and originally published in Yes! Magazine, does an excellent job explaining the concept. You can also check out our introduction to Open Coops, for a complementary perspective.