Other News from Participating Centers

El legado de la Revolución de Octubre a 100 años

El 7 de noviembre de 1917 se desarrolló el "Asalto al Palacio de Invierno" por parte de un grupo de guardias rojos, soldados, marineros y obreros del Soviet de Petrogrado. En el marco del centenario de estos hechos, que abrieron el camino a la constitución de la Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas, los profesores Manfred Wilhelmy del Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, y María Eugenia Horvitz de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, conversaron con Prensa U.

The road ahead for norms in cyberspace: Moving forward from Tallinn 2.0

by Elizabeth Dominic Digitalisation has become an integral part of our life. Our increasing reliance on digital infrastructures is linked to the use of cyberspace as a new domain for disrupting international peace and security, with cyber operations becoming an increasingly prominent threat. However, the laws governing such cyber operations remain unclear. There have been […]

Legislature 2.0: CrowdLaw and the Future of Lawmaking

By Beth Noveck, Gabriella Capone and Victoria Alsina
Re-Imagining Lawmaking

The Looming Battle in the Crypto Wars

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United States

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The Making of an American Nazi

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United States

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How One Woman's Digital Life Was Weaponized Against Her

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United States

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The GovLab Selected Readings on CrowdLaw

Introduction
The public is beginning to demand — and governments are beginning to provide — new opportunities for the engagement of citizens on an ongoing basis as collaborators in public problem-solving rather than merely as voters. Nowhere is the explosion in citizen participation accelerating more than in the context of lawmaking, where legislators and regulators are turning to new technology to solicit both public opinion and know-how to improve the legitimacy and effectiveness of the legislative process.

Measuring Tomorrow: Accounting for Well-Being, Resilience, and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century

Book by Éloi Laurent on “How moving beyond GDP will improve well-being and sustainability…Never before in human history have we produced so much data, and this empirical revolution has shaped economic research and policy profoundly. But are we measuring, and thus managing, the right things—those that will help us solve the real social, economic, political, and environmental challenges of the twenty-first century?

Dark Net – Was ist das eigentlich?

Kurzes Interview mit Nikolas Guggenberger zum Dark Net:

Danke an Radio Q und Reporterin Luisa Meng!

Digital Justice: Technology and the Internet of Disputes

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featuring author Ethan Katsh

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Our society is blessed with new technologies yet also burdened with numerous and novel disputes as they are used. In his new book Digital Justice: Technology and the Internet of Disputes, Professor Katsh looks at many of these disputes, why they arise, how they may be resolved and, in some cases, even prevented.

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Berkman Klein Luncheon Series

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Increasing Voter Knowledge with Pre-Election Interventions on Facebook

Liveblog of Winter Mason's talk at MIT sponsored by the MIT Gov/Lab on 13 November 2017. All errors are mine.

Understanding Corporate Data Sharing Decisions: Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities for Sharing Corporate Data with Researchers

Leslie Harris at the Future of Privacy Forum: “Data has become the currency of the modern economy. A recent study projects the global volume of data to grow from about 0.8 zettabytes (ZB) in 2009 to more than 35 ZB in 2020, most of it generated within the last two years and held by the corporate sector.

Visual gateways into science: Why it’s time to change the way we discover research

Have you ever noticed that it is really hard to get an overview of a research field that you know nothing about? Let’s assume for a minute that a family member or a loved one of yours has fallen ill and unfortunately, the standard treatment isn’t working. Like many other people, you now want to get into the research on the illness to better understand what’s going on.
You proceed to type the name of the disease into PubMed or Google Scholar – and you are confronted with thousands of results, more than you could ever read.

CSR meets Performance!

Mit rund 700 Teilnehmern ist die von Studierenden für Studierende organisierte NextGenerationCFO inzwischen die größte Campus-Konferenz Düsseldorfs. Sie findet einmal jährlich unter der wissenschaftlichen Leitung von Prof. Dr. Barbara E. Weißenberger mit ihrem Lehrstuhl-Team zu jeweils aktuellen Themen aus dem Accounting statt. 

Somaliland’s voting technology shows how Africa can lead the world

Calestous Juma in The Conversation: “Africa has become a testing ground for technological leapfrogging. This is a process that involves skipping stages and moving rapidly to the frontiers of innovation.

NEW book: Open Data in Developing Economies: Toward Building an Evidence Base on What Works and How

Ehemalige zu Gast an alter Wirkungsstätte

Auf Einladung des Vereins zur Förderung der zivilrechtlichen Abteilung des Instituts für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht fand am 11.11.2017 die Mitgliederversammlung des Vereins und ein Ehemaligentreffen in den Räumlichkeiten des Instituts statt.

Valery Larbaud: Kosmopolitismus in Zeiten der Globalisierung. Übersetzung und Transgression

Übersetzung wird dabei als kulturwissenschaftliches Konzept betrachtet, bei dem Texte sowohl als die schon übersetzt angesehen werden, zugleich jedoch Potential für die Inbezugsetzung von Welt und Text bergen. „Transgression“ meint das wechselseitige Überschreiten von Grenzen als unaufhörlichen Prozess. Das Dazwischen der Schwelle wird als Ort von Begegnung und Reibung verstanden, der erst in der Bewegung der Überschreitung selbst wahrnehmbar wird.

Prof. i. R. Dr. Hans Martin Jahns verstorben

Hans Martin Jahns wurde 1941 in Holzminden geboren. An der Philipps-Universität Marburg begann er 1960 sein Biologie-Studium, das er 1967 mit der Promotion abschloss. Im Anschluss erhielt er eine Anstellung im Botanischen Institut der Universität Groningen (Niederlande), das er zuletzt als Geschäftsführender Direktor leitete. 1973 wechselte er auf eine Botanik-Professur an die Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main. Dort habilitierte er sich 1975.

Two years later: A short documentary from Barcelona’s government of change

“We must listen and talk with the people because it’s they we must obey”
Ada Colau