Organizer’s Thank-You Letter to Professor Hong Xue

If you work in any type of co-op, or non-hierarchical group, with open and inclusive values and aspirations for horizontal management, this post is for you. It summarises a workshop from the founders of Loomio, at which they shared their distilled wisdom for effective collaboration within groups.

Report by UNDP and Futurgov: “Effective and inspirational labs exist in many highly developed countries. In Western Europe, MindLab (Denmark) and The Behavioural Insights Team (UK) push their governments to re-imagine public services. In Asia, the Innovation Bureau in Seoul, South Korea, co-designs better services with citizens.

CEPLAS, der Exzellenzcluster der HHU und der Universität zu Köln arbeitet zu unterschiedlichen Aspekten der Nutzpflanzenforschung. Ziel ist es, den Ertrag von wichtigen Nutzpflanzen wie Reis und Weizen zu steigern, angesichts sich ändernder klimatischer Bedingungen und limitierter Anbauflächen.

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Playing for Team Human today is Post Carbon Institute fellow Richard Heinberg. Richard is the co-author of Our Renewable Future and most recently, the manifesto, There’s No App For That. On today’s show Richard and Douglas challenge the idea that technological “progress” is a panacea for solving systems-level crises like climate change.

In light of this year’s Open Access week, Michele Marchetto of Wikimedia Italia shares the story of how they helped authors to make their open access articles more widely available. This post has been cross-posted from Wikimedia Italia.

At OPEN 2017 one of the open space sessions which was proposed by Phil Carey focused on “Inter-generational Collaborative Platforms”. Here Phil explains what was discussed and the ‘call to action’ that developed from the session.

Ausgezeichnet wurde seine Arbeit zum strukturierten Gehtraining bei Patienten, die an der „Schaufensterkrankheit“, in der Fachsprache „periphere arterielle Verschlusskrankheit“(pAVK) leiden. „Wir wissen, dass gezieltes und strukturiertes Gehtraining einen Fortschritt der Erkrankung aufhalten und die verkürzte Gehstrecke dieser Patienten deutlich verlängern kann“, sagt Düppers, „Ich verstehe den Julius-Springer-Preis vor allem als Anerkennung dieses Konzeptes.“

Anna Sienicka in the Financial Times: “I often imagine how different the world would look if citizens and social activists were able to fully understand and use data, and new technologies. Unfortunately, the entry point to this world is often inaccessible for most civil society groups…

Medium Blog by Stefaan Verhulst: “We live in an increasingly quantified world, one where data is driving key business decisions.

Un total de 1.100 hectáreas de los terrenos de la Estación Experimental Germán Greve Silva de la Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, ubicadas en la comuna de Maipú, se transformaron en el undécimo Santuario de la Naturaleza de la Región Metropolitana. Durante la ceremonia de inauguración se lanzaron bombas de semillas para reparar parte del daño que sufrió la zona en el incendio de noviembre del año pasado, y se entregaron los resultados del concurso del Fondo de Protección Ambiental Restauración Ecológica y Social.

Este viernes 13 de octubre la comunidad del hospital universitario conmemoró junto a pacientes y vecinos del sector un nuevo aniversario. Los miembros del principal formador de especialistas del país, celebraron con música y baile, recordaron parte de los hitos del recinto y enfatizaron en la misión pública del Hospital desde su origen.La pileta ubicada en el frontis del Hospital Clínico de la U.

El secretario de Estado valoró el aporte en materia de investigación y propuestas a las políticas públicas que realiza la Casa de Bello al país en materias relacionadas con la gestión del agua.

Encabezado por el vicerrector Daniel Hojman, este equipo estará a cargo de redactar este documento, el que estará enfocado en la revisión de información institucional clave sobre el actual desarrollo de la Casa de Bello.En el marco del proceso de acreditación institucional 2018, se constituyó la tercera comisión especial con nueve miembros que tendrán el trabajo de redactar el informe por área para presentarlo posteriormente ante la comisión Asesora.

Zeina Afif at the Worldbank: “You could say that the first one began in 2009, when the US government recruited Cass Sunstein to head The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) to streamline regulations. In 2010, the UK established the first Behavioural Insights Unit (BIT) on a trial basis, under the Cabinet Office.

About: “The catalog contains information about federal citizen science and crowdsourcing projects. In citizen science, the public participates voluntarily in the scientific process, addressing real-world problems in ways that may include formulating research questions, conducting scientific experiments, collecting and analyzing data, interpreting results, making new discoveries, developing technologies and applications, and solving complex problems.

J-Pal Blog: “The J-PAL State and Local Innovation Initiative supports US state and local governments in using randomized evaluations to generate new and widely applicable lessons about the effectiveness of their programs and policies.

Ricardo Bilton at NiemanLab: “Civil is an idea that has started to turn heads, both among investors and within journalism circles.