This series of short video interviews highlights the new 2017-2018 Berkman Klein fellows. Check back every week for new additions!

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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 […]

„Nachdenken über das Eigene und das Fremde“ wollte Gauck in seinem Vortrag und Rektorin Steinbeck führte ins Thema ein: „In unserer heutigen globalen Welt gilt mehr denn je, dass Kulturen keine homogenen und konsistenten Einheiten sind. Kulturen sind keine Behälter, in denen sich einheitliche kollektive Lebensweisen finden. Kulturen sind lebendige Gebilde, die sich gegenseitig befruchten, austauschen und immer in Veränderung begriffen sind.“

The Economist: “The latest edition of The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index records the worst decline in global democracy in years. Not a single region recorded an improvement in its average score since 2016, as countries grapple with increasingly divided electorates. Freedom of expression in particular is facing new challenges from both state and non-state actors, and is a special focus of this year’s report.

 Nicholas Confessore, Gabriel J.X. Dance, Richard Harris And Mark Hansen in The New York Times: “…Fake accounts, deployed by governments, criminals and entrepreneurs, now infest social media networks.

Introduction by Julia Lane and Andrew Reamer of a Special Issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: “Throughout the United States, there is broad interest in expanding the nation’s capacity to design and implement public policy based on solid evidence. That interest has been stimulated by the new types of data that are available that can transform the way in which policy is designed and implemented.

Book by Jerry Z. Muller on “How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and government…

Hintergrund: Regelmäßiger Sport hat einen positiven Einfluss auf die kognitive Leistungsfähigkeit bei Patienten mit leichten kognitiven Störungen im Alter. Dies ergab eine Auswertung von Studiendaten aus den USA, die in die neuen Leitlinien der American Academy of Neurology aufgenommen wurden.

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Cornelia Monzel ist Expertin für „Magnetogenetics“, einer neuen Methode, bei der Zellprozesse mittels magnetischer Nanopartikel und unter Verwendung äußerer Magnetfelder berührungslos kontrolliert werden können. Die Nanopartikel sind nur wenige Milliardstel Meter groß und damit deutlich kleiner als jede Zelle. Sie können spezifisch an Proteine innerhalb oder auf der Zelloberfläche binden und anschließend über äußere Magnetfelder manipuliert werden.

Julia Reda, writing in her own blog, warns of the dangers of the new EU copyright law. Please share this video and text widely.
Julia Reda: For months now I’ve been raising the alarm about the plan to limit the freedom to link that has been slowly but surely making its way through the EU legislative process.

W 2018 roku do grona autorów, których dzieła znajdują się w domenie publicznej dołączył wybitny matematyk, filozof i zwolennik nowoczesnych teorii edukacyjnych Alfred North Whitehead. Pochodził z rodziny, w której od pokoleń zajmowano się edukacją (zarówno jego ojciec, jak i dziadek byli dyrektorami szkół dla chłopców).

Which knowledge, skills and learning environments can boost Open Design & Manufacturing at meaningful scale? How can OD&M  become the ground of collective experimentation and co-creation between Universities, Makerspaces and Enterprises?

Essay by Charles Ess at Javnost: “In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the emerging internet and World Wide Web inspired both popular and scholarly optimism that these new communication technologies would inevitably “democratise”—in local organisations, larger civic and political institutions, and, indeed, the world itself.

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 […]

Paper by Oskar Josef Gstrein and Gerard Jan Ritsema van Eck: “Various smartphone apps and services are available which encourage users to report where and when they feel they are in an unsafe or threatening environment. This user generated content may be used to build datasets, which can show areas that are considered ‘bad,’ and to map out ‘safe’ routes through such neighbourhoods.

Ramy Ghorayeb at Medium: “…Why can’t governments move fast like the private industry? We have seen the rise of big corporations and startups adapting and evolve with the needs of their customers. Why can’t the governments adapt to the needs of their population? Why is it so slow?

„Mit dem Marathon-Trikot wollen wir uns bei Oberbürgermeister Thomas Geisel für seinen Einsatz für die Düsseldorfer Palliativmedizin bedanken“, erklärt Martin Neukirchen. „In der Palliativmedizin der Uniklinik geht es uns darum Lebensqualität zu verbessern und die Selbständigkeit der Patienten so lange wie möglich zu erhalten. Unser Förderverein ermöglicht es uns dort zu unterstützen, wo die medizinische Regelversorgung aufhört.

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