Making Crypto Safe for the Mainstream
I’ve been thinking a lot about how to make ICOs really solid, ethical, lasting sources of good. However, at the heart of an ICO is the “C” — the cryptocurrency which is being offered. How can we really get to ethical ICOs when cryptocurrencies themselves aren’t ready to serve mainstream needs? [This is the first of three articles about getting to ethical ICOs.]
’Cause let’s tell the truth — cryptocurrencies just aren’t safe for everyday use by normal people and businesses yet.

Jason Hickel:  Earlier this summer, a paper published in the journal Nature captured headlines with a rather bleak forecast. Our chances of keeping global warming below the 2C danger threshold are very, very small: only about 5%. The reason, according to the paper’s authors, is that the cuts we’re making to greenhouse gas emissions are being cancelled out by economic growth.

El Rector de la Universidad de Chile, Ennio Vivaldi, el vicerrector de Investigación y Desarrollo, Flavio Salazar; y la presidenta subrogante de la Academia de Ciencias, Cecilia Hidalgo, fueron parte de la delegación de académicos y científicos que concurrieron este viernes 20 de octubre al Palacio de La Moneda. La misiva entregada solicita al gobierno reconsiderar los recursos en ciencia, tecnología e investigación proyectados para el próximo año y avanzar en su progresivo incremento.

Una importante agenda de trabajo llevó a cabo en Buenos Aires, Argentina, la profesora Maribel Mora Curriao, directora de la Oficina de Equidad e Inclusión de la Vicerrectoría de Asuntos Estudiantiles y Comunitarios. La representante de la Casa de Bello participó junto a otros pares de la región, en actividades sobre diversidad cultural e interculturalidad en la Educación Superior con el propósito de compartir experiencias y prácticas que permitan abrir nuevos espacios a la inclusión universitaria.

This year’s Platform Cooperativism conference is titled “The People’s Disruption: Platform Co-ops for Global Challenges” and will take place at the New School in New York City on November 10th and 11th.

Ray Kurzweil keynote presentation at a Council on Foreign Relations meeting…(More)”.
Full Post: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Society

Die Ausstellung „Menschen der Krummhörn“ wird am 1. Dezember 2017 im Rathaus in Pewsum eröffnet. Gleichzeitig wird dem Bürgermeister und den Stadthonoratioren die 2. Aufl. des ausverkauften Fotobandes überreicht werden. Die Ausstellung zeigt mit mehr als 100 Fotos Charakterköpfe der Krummhörn. Sie wird mindestens bis Ende März 2018 zu den üblichen Öffnungszeiten im Rathaus zu sehen sein.
Thomas Hoeren/Edzard Herlyn, Menschen der Krummhörn, 2. Aufl. Oldenburg (Verlag Isensee) 2017

Aaron Fernando: The staff at the nonprofit organization HullCoin has done something very unusual in the city of Hull in northeast United Kingdom. Residents of Hull can earn HullCoins, which can be used at various places around the city. It’s an innovative model. But how exactly does it work? To learn more about the group’s approach, we spoke with the two founding members of HullCoin, Dave Shepherdson and Lisa Bovill.

"Me siento profundamente honrado y muy agradecido", afirmó el académico Jorge Valenzuela durante la ceremonia en la que recibió este reconocimiento. En la instancia, estuvieron presentes las máximas autoridades de la Universidad de Chile y la Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, junto a sus familiares, amigos y comunidad universitaria.

Richard Sennett at ReadingDesign: “I am not going to speak about the present, but about the past: about the foundations on which our democracy is based. These foundations were rooted in cities, in their civic spaces. We need to remember this history to think about how democratic cities should be made today.

On 16 October 2017, Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered in a car bomb attack outside her home.

Location

United States

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Like every healthy movement, the Social & Solidarity Economy (SSE) needs structures and tools that promote its principles and ensure its autonomy. Unfortunately, with regard to the tools it uses, it remains captive to the various ‘closed’ technologies it is supplied with by mainstream companies. To realize how important that is, one must take into account the crucial difference between open and closed technologies. What differentiates the former from the latter is the freedoms they provide to end users.

Workshops about Hate Speech
The workshops in November will inaugurate a new project that Centre for Internet and Human Rights is working on together with two organisations: La Red and agitPolska.
During the first two workshops we will try to understand better what hate speech actually is and how it works. How widespread is hate speech in Germany? What can we do against it? What kind of public sphere is conducive to democracy in the Digital Age?

The way ahead will be based on a combination of knowledge obtained remotely, using modern tools and devices, and ways of knowing that are local, experienced directly, contextual, and embodied.
When we connect with living systems emotionally, and not just rationally, and focus on the informal, the local and the conversational – things will really begin to change.

Die Veranstaltung wird gemeinsam von der „Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften“ und der „Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)“ in Kooperation mit dem „IUF – Leibniz-Institut für umweltmedizinische Forschung an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf“ ausgerichtet. Die Redner bei der Veranstaltung kommen aus Deutschland, Südafrika, Brasilien, Russland, Indien und China. Darüber hinaus ist Sophie P. Bonjour Gumy, Weltgesundheitsorganisation aus Genf für eine „Evening Keynote“ mit anschließendem Empfang zu Gast.

One way to empower local communities and their regional economies to manifest their visions of a better future is to re-localize production and consumption and thereby strengthen regional economies.
There is an important role for international trade and global exchange of goods and services, but not when it comes to meeting basic regional needs. Wherever feasible we should meet our needs as locally or regionally as possible and restrict the global exchange of goods to those that cannot be produced in a particular place.

Location

United States

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En el marco del XVI Encuentro Latinoamericano de Facultades de Comunicación Social, organizado este 2017 en conjunto con la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, la vicerrectora de Extensión y Comunicaciones de la U. de Chile y Premio Nacional de Periodismo 2007 expuso sobre los desafíos del periodismo en la era de la posverdad y reforzó la importancia de la ética en tiempos en que proliferan las noticias falsas en las redes sociales. Por la dictadura, los inicios de la transición y el presente se recorrió la vicerrectora de Extensión y Comunicaciones de la U.

Durante el encuentro se anunció el lanzamiento del Observatorio para la Inserción Laboral y Fortalecimiento de la Empleabilidad en los Países que conforman la Alianza del Pacífico. El proyecto se iniciará en enero en la ciudad de Bogotá.