How do people work together to design open-source hardware products? What is the level of openness, trust and collaboration within such projects? Do the communities share common goals and visions and how do they allocate workloads? These are some core questions related to demystifying open-source hardware projects that Robert Mies and Jérémy Bonvoisin try to answer in the research project entitled “OPEN!

Nadine Roestenburg, Van meme tot mainstream: internetkunst, esthetiek en offline luxe in een postdigitale wereld, Mu Eindhoven, 2017, 19,95 euro, te bestellen via de MU website: http://www.mu.nl/nl/shop/van-meme-tot-mainstream.

Tom Llewellyn: The People’s Disruption: Platform Co-ops for Global Challenges kicks off this weekend at The New School and Civic Hall in New York City, New York. The annual event — now in its third year — will bring together a diverse group of experts who are pushing the platform co-op movement forward.

The Commons in Latin America: Struggles, Policies and Research is a two day conference taking place in December 12th and 13th 2017 in Amsterdam. The following information is extracted from the conference website.
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Every day, the U.S. government sweeps up the emails, text messages, and other online communications of millions of innocent Americans. Congress has a chance to rein in this unconstitutional spying when a key surveillance authority expires at the end of this year.

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El Campus Sur de la Universidad de Chile congregó a investigadores de reconocidas instituciones de Brasil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile y Francia para analizar el impacto de las nuevas aproximaciones de la genética enfocada en el área de la conservación ambiental y generar mayor colaboración a nivel regional.En los últimos veinte años, el problema de la pérdida de diversidad biológica y la extinción de especies debido a la actividad humana ha generado interés por buscar soluciones, tanto en el desarrollo de técnicas analíticas para identificar las causas del problema como en t

En lo que es la primera parte de esta iniciativa impulsada por dicha Facultad, doce estudiantes secundarios se encuentran visitando y desarrollando actividades en la Casa de Bello, mientras que en los próximos días será un número igual de estudiantes de Pedagogía en Educación Media en Biología y Química los que llegarán hasta Chiloé para realizar su práctica temprana, acompañados por cinco académicos.

BuscAves es el nombre de la App gratuita que están desarrollando un grupo de profesionales de la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Pecuarias (FAVET), liderados por la académica Valeria Rojas.

Creado a mediados de los años '40 con el objetivo de impulsar el desarrollo de la cultura y en particular de la danza en nuestro país, el Ballet Nacional Chileno (BANCH), primer conjunto de su tipo en Chile, ha desarrollado una importante labor de difusión artística a lo largo de 72 años.

Neste Bytes de Informação, Luíza Brandão e Victor Vieira falam sobre bloqueios judiciais a aplicações e pedidos de remoção de conteúdo online. Confira:

Standen in der Vergangenheit die Lehrenden im Fokus der Lehre, rücken zunehmend die Studierenden mit ihren Ansprüchen und Bedürfnissen in den Mittelpunkt. Die Herausforderungen für Lehrende ist es, Mittel und Wege zu finden, um Studierendenautonomie und individualisiertes Lernen zu unterstützen. Unter dem Motto 'Erfolgsfaktor: Studieneingangsphase!' loteten Lehrende und Studierende im Rahmen einer gemeinsamen Talkrunde ihre jeweiligen Erwartungen in Bezug auf den Übergang ins Studium und das erste Studienjahr aus.

Unter fröhlichen Laternenliedern zog der Trupp vom Haus Himmelgeist vorbei an der Alten Chirurgie, der Hautklinik und den Verwaltungsgebäude bis hin zur Kinderklinik. Mit dem Martinsfeuer wurde er hier schon sehnsüchtig erwartet vom armen Bettler – in diesem Jahr erneut gespielt von Martin Suzuki aus dem Geschäftsbereich Logistik. Bei der traditionellen Mantelteilung erhielt er vom Heiligen Martin dann den Mantel. Damit auch die Patienten und Kinder auf der KMT-Station den St. Martin sehen können, teilte er dort seinen Mantel ein zweites Mal.

Blog by Stefaan Verhulst: “As the technology, research and policy communities continue to seek new ways to improve governance and solve public problems, two new types of assets are occupying increasing importance: data and people. Leveraging data and people’s expertise in new ways offers a path forward for smarter decisions, more innovative policymaking, and more accountability in governance.

Amy Kapczynski at Cornell Law Review: “Today, intellectual property (IP) scholars accept that IP as an approach to information production has serious limits. But what lies beyond IP? A new literature on “intellectual production without IP” (or “IP without IP”) has emerged to explore this question, but its examples and explanations have yet to convince skeptics.

Katharine Dempsey at The Nation: “…A healthy modern democracy requires ordinary citizens to participate in public discussions about rapidly advancing technologies. We desperately need new policies, regulations, and safety nets for those displaced by machines. With computing power accelerating exponentially, the scale of AI’s significance is still not being fully internalized.

Book by Martin Erwig: “Picture a computer scientist, staring at a screen and clicking away frantically on a keyboard, hacking into a system, or perhaps developing an app. Now delete that picture. In Once Upon an Algorithm, Martin Erwig explains computation as something that takes place beyond electronic computers, and computer science as the study of systematic problem solving. Erwig points out that many daily activities involve problem solving.

Nick Cowen et al at Critical Review: “We attempt to map the limits of evidence-based policy through an interactive theoretical critique and empirical case-study. We outline the emergence of an experimental turn in EBP among British policymakers and the limited, broadly inductive, epistemic approach that underlies it. We see whether and how field professionals identify and react to these limitations through a case study of teaching professionals subject to a push to integrate research evidence into their practice.