Following up on my prior posts about responsible cryptocurrencies and moving towards a more Ethical ICO, I want to dig into some of the nitty-gritty about what kinds of things can make an ICO more ethical than the norm.

Das FocusLab greenRelease ist im Themenfeld „Smartes Management der Pflanzenproduktion“ angesiedelt und wird von Dr. Felix Jakob von der RWTH Aachen geleitet. Die Wissenschaftler entwickeln biologisch abbaubare Minibehälter aus Mikrogelen, die mittels Ankerpeptiden an der Oberfläche von Blättern oder Früchten haften und regenfest sind. Aus diesen kleinen Behältnissen können nach Bedarf Herbizide oder Fungizide freigesetzt werden.

What are we really trying to do at the P2P Foundation, along with many other similar movements ?
One of the best ways to express our underlying philosophy is here very well expressed by John Ringland, who, using complexity theory insights, distinguishes ‘generative cooperative networks’ from ‘generative adversarial networks’.
We recommend reading the following text carefully, for an understanding of these dynamics.
From GAN’s, via GHN’s, to GCN’s?

A few days ago, we pointed to a remarkable presentation by Frank Pasquale, who showed how the new ‘netarchical’ corporations like Google, Facebook, Uber or AirBnB are taking over more and more former ‘state’ and ‘governmental’ functions, replacing democratically accountable public power (however feeble that accountability can sometimes be), by what he calls ‘Functional Governance’.

Das neue Parteiengefüge Deutschlands seit der Bundestagswahl und die daraus erwachsenden Probleme bei der Regierungsbildung stellen die Politiker der etablierten Parteien vor erhebliche Herausforderungen. Gleichzeitig haben beide Volksparteien historische Tiefstände beim Wahlergebnis erreicht. Auch hier gibt es keinen deutschen Sonderweg, sondern eher eine Normalisierung: In vielen europäischen Demokratien sind die etablierten Parteien erheblichen Erosionsprozessen ausgesetzt. Der Vortrag widmet sich im Wesentlichen drei Fragen: Was bedeutet dies für die Zukunft der Parteiendemokratie?

Im mit über 600 Gästen vollbesetzten Konrad-Henkel-Hörsaal stellte Rektorin Prof. Dr. Anja Steinbeck die fortgesetzte erfolgreiche Entwicklung der Universität dar.

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 […]

Offerings will be an incentive to companies already using Paytm e-wallet services to shift employees’ salary accounts to the bank, says Paytm Payments Bank CEO Renu Satti.
The article was published by Komal Gupta and Remya Nair was published in Livemint on January 24, 2018

Andrew Zolli at the Stanford Social Innovation Review: “Consider, for a moment, some of the most pernicious challenges facing humanity today: the increasing prevalence of natural disasters; the systemic overfishing of the world’s oceans; the clear-cutting of primeval forests; the maddening persistence of poverty; and above all, the accelerating effects of global climate change.

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By Beth Simone Noveck and Dinorah Cantú-Pedraza. Originally posted on Forbes.

By Tracey Gyateng and Beth Simone Noveck. Posted originally in SSIR on January 24, 2018

Paper by Marc D. Joffe and Frank Partnoy: “In the aftermath of the 2007-08 global financial crisis, regulators and policy makers recognized the importance of making bond ratings publicly available. Although rating agencies have made some dataavailable, obtaining this information in bulk can be difficult or impossible. At some times, the data is costly; at other times, it is simply unavailable.

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Paper by Eyal Benvenisti at the The European Journal of International Law: “The law on global governance that emerged after the Second World War was grounded in irrefutable trust in international organizations and an assumption that their subjection to legal discipline and judicial review would be unnecessary and, in fact, detrimental to their success.

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In remembrance of Internet Pioneer, founder and Chair of RIPE for 25 years, Postel Award recipient, and friend, Rob Blokzijl the RIPE NCC set up the “Rob Blokzijl Foundation”.

La caracterización de la marea roja que en 2016 asoló la zona y la necesidad de mecanismos para enfrentarla fueron el eje de la conversación que tuvo lugar este miércoles en el Teatro Municipal de Ancud. Sin evadir las polémicas, los académicos plantearon desafíos para las autoridades y la academia, al mismo tiempo que se refirieron a quiénes ganaron -económica y culturalmente- con el fenómeno. Mayo de 2016 fue el punto más álgido de una crisis sanitaria que se venía arrastrando desde hace meses en Chiloé.

A través de la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Pecuarias, la Universidad de Chile y el Programa Nacional de Divulgación y Valoración de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, Explora de CONICYT, desarrollan los Campamentos Explora VA! 2018. En la iniciativa, que se encuentra en su segunda etapa, participan profesionales de la educación provenientes de distintos puntos de Chile, con el objetivo de fortalecer las competencias de profesores y educadoras, para potenciar habilidades y actitudes propias del ámbito científico en sus estudiantes.

El sábado 6 de enero, en Rangue, comuna de Paine, 100 familias protestaron por la escasez de agua; muchos vecinos llevan cerca de un mes sin tener un acceso normal y digno al recurso. La sequía se debe principalmente a la sobreexplotación del acuífero que nutre la Laguna de Aculeo, el cual satisface diversas necesidades hídricas de la zona. Ante esta situación, un proyecto impulsado por la U.