Jason Shueh at Statescoop: “New survey results show that despite the aggressive growth of open data, there is a drastic need for greater awareness and accessibility.

Wer an Leonardo da Vinci denkt, der hat sofort den Schöpfer berühmter Gemälde vor Augen, wie zum Beispiel die Mona Lisa. Da Vinci war aber nicht nur Künstler - er war vor allem auch Wissenschaftler: Mediziner, Ingenieur, Architekt. Was eigentlich streng voneinander getrennt ist, vereinen manche Menschen in einer Person. Diesen Grenzgängern widmet sich ab 16. November die Ausstellung „Kunst und Wissenschaft: Beispiele symbiotischer Verhältnisse“.

Paper by Robert A Iannucci and Anthony Rowe: “The vision of applying computing and communication technologies to enhance life in our cities is fundamentally appealing. Pervasive sensing and computing can alert us to imminent dangers, particularly with respect to the movement of vehicles and pedestrians in and around crowded streets. Signaling systems can integrate knowledge of city-scale traffic congestion. Self-driving vehicles can borrow from and contribute to a city-scale information collaborative.

Apolitical: “The political incentives to risk public money are non-existent – it’s too easy to see the short-term political consequences of initiatives gone wrong and debate whether taxpayers’ money is going down the drain. Public money is to be spent according to rules and regulations.”

Ziel der Veranstaltung ist es, die Rolle von Stammzellen in Klinik und Forschung einer breiten Öffentlichkeit zu präsentieren und insbesondere im Rahmen des Weltnabelschnurbluttages Danke an alle Mütter zu sagen, die das Nabelschnurblut ihrer Kinder für einen unverwandten oder verwandten Patienten gespendet haben.Zusätzlich zur Frauenklinik des Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf bestehen auch Kooperationen mit vielen Frauenkliniken in Düsseldorf, in Nordrhein-Westfalen und Niedersachsen.

The Charter of the Forest was sealed 800 years ago. Its defence of the property-less and of ‘the commons’, means the Right would prefer to ignore it – and progressives need to celebrate and renew it.

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United States

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United States

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Este viernes 27 de octubre se cumplen cinco décadas del fallecimiento en Montevideo de la escritora y Premio Nacional de Literatura 1961, de cuyo legado literario es heredera la Casa de Bello.

"Hacia un territorio sustentable: Diálogos sobre identidades, culturas y patrimonios" se titula la nueva versión de este encuentro que se realizará entre el 7 y el 12 de enero de 2018 en Ancud y Curaco de Vélez. El programa de esta actividad, se ha venido trabajando desde abril entre la Universidad de Chile y la Universidad de Los Lagos, la Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos -a partir del Museo de Ancud-, la Corporación Cultural de dicho municipio y la Fundación Curaco de Vélez.

A dos voces fue que los poetas César Millahueique y Maribel Mora Curriao leyeron parte de su creación en "Dungun ñi Kawin, poesía mapuche en voz alta", en el que más de cuarenta personas se encontraron en la sala Pedro Prado de la Estación Mapocho con la propuesta de estos artistas. “Los poetas mapuches hemos logrado formar más comunidad, o quizás más bien mantener la comunidad que somos y de la que venimos, aunque estemos dispersos por el mundo.

Con el objetivo de generar un ambiente propicio para una convivencia más justa al interior del establecimiento, durante octubre se realizaron actividades para profesores, estudiantes y apoderados en torno a la reflexión y aprendizaje sobre género.

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Paper by Martin J. Williams: “With the growing number of rigorous impact evaluations worldwide, the question of how best to apply this evidence to policymaking processes has arguably become the main challenge for evidence-based policymaking. How can policymakers predict whether a policy will have the same impact in their context as it did elsewhere, and how should this influence the design and implementation of policy?

On Friday 10th November the CMPF will host a workshop and conference on the 2017 Media Pluralism Monitor featuring many of the experts who contributed research and data for this year’s monitor. Held at the European University Institute in Florence, the conference will focus on the application of the 2017 monitor which includes some reports from the 28 member countries of European Union as well as Turkey, Serbia and Macedonia.

Organised to present the results of the CMPF’s Media Pluralism Monitor, the workshop, Media Pluralism in Greece: Assessments, challenges and prospects, will take place on Tuesday, November 14th 2017, 10:00-14:00, at the European Commission Representation in Greece (2 Vasilissis Sofias Ave, Athens). The workshop is organised by the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP).

David Craig, Stan Ketterer and Mohammad Yousuf at Data Driven Journalism: “One common element uniting data journalism projects, across different stories and locations, is the ethical challenges they present.

Gallup: “Overall, Americans’ views of government remain negative. Most U.S. adults are dissatisfied with how the executive and legislative branches are doing their jobs, and majorities hold unfavorable views of both major political parties. Even Republicans rate Congress negatively, despite their party being in control of both chambers.

Report by the Global Social Entrepreneurship Network (GSEN) and the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt: “…Both social entrepreneurs and the organisations that support them depend on finding and retaining top talent.

Crowded Cities: “In the Netherlands every year more than 6 billion cigarette filters are tossed onto the street. It’s easy to toss, but it’s not easy to pick them up. Since each filter takes 12 years to degrade we realised it’s time to take action.
Through observation we concluded crows are the smartest around us to reach any spot in the city. What if crows can bring cigarette filters to one of our Crowbars to exchange the filter for food? This is how our adventure started.
The Crowbar