Other News from Participating Centers

1.350 profesores se capacitaron en los cursos de verano del CMM

La versión 2017 de esta actividad, cuarta desde que se iniciara por iniciativa de este Centro de Excelencia de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM) de la Universidad de Chile, atrajo a 262 profesores que actualizaron sus conocimientos con metodologías de vanguardia en matemáticas y otras asignaturas.Este año un total de 262 profesores de colegio volvieron a sentarse en un pupitre en el Centro de Modelamiento Matemático (CMM) de la FCFM de la Universidad de Chile.

APC 2018: Interview with Nico van Eijk & Edo Roos Lindgreen

Everybody needs management - but nobody needs managers!

Ziel der Ringvorlesung ist es, aktuelle und komplexe wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Sachverhalte für Interessierte nachvollziehbar zu machen. Jeweils Dienstagabends ab 19.30 Uhr, im Haus der Universität, stehen dabei wieder ganz unterschiedliche, aber aktuelle Fragestellungen betriebs- und volkswirtschaftlicher Forschung im Fokus.
Am kommenden Dienstag, den 30.01.2018 startet die Reihe mit einem Vortrag von Univ.-Prof. Dr. Barbara E. Weißenberger zum Thema: Everybody needs management - but nobody needs managers! Macht künstliche Intelligenz die Führungskräfte überflüssig?

The Ecovillage as a Regenerative Peacebuilding Agent

The Ecovillage as a Regenerative Peacebuilding Agent: Tamera – Healing Biotope I and the “Global Campus” in the West Bank. Author: Ana Margarida Esteves
Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Centro de Estudos Internacionais, Lisboa, Portugal; anamargarida.esteves@gmail.com
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The Solidarity Economy has a champion in the global co-op movement – Bruno Roelants appointed DG of the ICA

Bruno Roelants, a longstanding champion of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE), has been appointed Director-General of the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA). The ICA is the global umbrella body for the international co-operative movement and represents more than 300 co-operative federations across 105 countries. From 2002 Roelants has been secretary general of CECOP-CICOPA Europe, the European representative body of worker and social co-operatives across the continent.

Erste Vorlesung am 31. Januar: "Nachdenken über das Eigene und das Fremde"

„Ich fühle mich Düsseldorf verbunden wie dem ganzen Rheinland“, so der Altbundespräsident in Vorbereitung seiner Vorlesung. „Der rheinischen Republik ist es gelungen, die zögerlichen Deutschen mit der Demokratie zu befreunden. Nordrhein-Westfalen und seine Landeshauptstadt stehen für eine Haltung, die mir gefällt: den Mut, die Welt zu nehmen wie sie ist, und sie zu gestalten, so gut es geht. Das klingt sehr pragmatisch – wie schön, wenn sich diese Haltung mit rheinischem Optimismus vereint.“

Aadhaar's new security measures are good, it is still work in progress

Here's a rundown of the three new features that the UIDAI will introduce to make Aadhaar seemingly more secure.
The article by Alnoor Peermohamed was published in Business Standard on January 25, 2018.

Popularity doesn't equal truth.

Popularity doesn't equal truth. And yet Facebook's recent proposal to rank the trustworthiness of news sources based on popularity is loosely equating truth with popularity. In so doing, Facebook may be putting form over function. 
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The Open Governance Research eXchange (OGRX) expands to include 999 Papers and 18 Partners – Help us meet new milestones in 2018!

The Open Governance Research eXchange (OGRX) began with a few ideas and a few key partners seeking to develop answers and solutions to an important question: How to make  governance innovation more evidence based by making key findings on what works and why more accessible?

Limited Time Only: Read our Springer/Nature Paper on Healthcare, Security, and Privacy

Last year, I was invited to contribute a paper to a special edition of the Health and Technology Journal published by Springer/Nature. The special issue addressed privacy and security, with a particular focus on healthcare and medical data. I’m happy to announce that now, for four weeks only, the publishers have made the whole issue available free.
From our accompanying blog post last July:

How the Data That Internet Companies Collect Can Be Used for the Public Good

Stefaan G. Verhulst and Andrew Young at Harvard Business Review: “…In particular, the vast streams of data generated through social media platforms, when analyzed responsibly, can offer insights into societal patterns and behaviors. These types of behaviors are hard to generate with existing social science methods.

Open Data Risk Assessment

Report by the Future of Privacy Forum: “The transparency goals of the open data movement serve important social, economic, and democratic functions in cities like Seattle. At the same time, some municipal datasets about the city and its citizens’ activities carry inherent risks to individual privacy when shared publicly.

Net Neutrality in the United States

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A panel featuring Christopher S. Yoo (UPenn) and Matthew Wood (Free Press)

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The January 4 release of the Federal Communications Commission’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order marked the most recent turn of events in the longstanding and ever-changing debate over net neutrality. Come hear a panel of leading experts explore the consequences of this action, including the implications of the Order, the outcome of the judicial challenge, and the possibility of legislative reform.

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Is There Something Wrong with Democracy?

Max Fisher and Amanda Taub at The New York Times: “After 200 years of expansion, democracy’s growth in the world has stalled.

Swoboda użycia: Lilly Reich – modernizm w domenie publicznej

Wraz z początkiem roku 2018 do domeny publicznej trafiły prace Lilly Reich – modernistycznej projektantki, współpracowniczki Miesa van der Rohe – jednego z czołowych architektów modernizmu, drugiej kobiety, która znalazła się w gronie nauczycieli Bauhausu – nowatorskiej uczelni artystyczno-rzemieślniczej, która zmieniła oblicze architektury i projektowania.

The Cyber Incident Tsunami – Time to Get Ready

In advance of Data Privacy & Protection Day, the Online Trust Alliance, an Internet Society initiative, just released the Cyber Incident & Breach Trends Report (press release here), a look back at the cyber incident trends in 2017 and what can be done to address them.

Law, Borders, and Speech: Black Letter Law

The topic of how well the tool of black letter law works in the Internet law setting is of course huge, and associated with obvious definitional challenges. To point to but one; how ought we define “black letter law” in our present legal culture where legal rules necessarily must take account of the technical reality in which they operate?

OpenEdu Policies reports: JRC Research Centre

This blog has been reposted from the Open Education Working Group blog and has been written as a joint effort by Javiera Atenas and  Paul Bacsich, co-coordinators of the Open Education Working Group. 

Escuela de Temporada llegó a Curaco de Vélez con arte y conversatorios

Hasta la Escuela Superior Campesina llegaron académicos y artistas de la Casa de Bello para ser parte de tres conversatorios y de una muestra, actividades enmarcadas además en la Jornadas Culturales 2018 de dicha institución.

Nueva edición de Palabra Pública indaga en la laicidad del Estado

El octavo número de la publicación abre el debate hacia las implicancias de un Estado laico, convocando a destacadas plumas que lo abordan desde diversas perspectivas. En tiempos en que el Papa Francisco visita nuestro país y la llamada “agenda valórica” divide los resultados de las recientes elecciones presidenciales, Palabra Pública presenta un dossier especial dedicado al concepto “Estado Laico”.