Paper by Akemi TakeokaChatfield and Christopher G.Reddick: “Open government data (OGD) policy differs substantially from the existing Freedom of Information policies.
Vanessa Herringshaw at Making All Voices Count: ” …I’ve been reading over the incredibly rich and practically-orientated research and practice papers already on the Making All Voices Count website, and some of those coming out soon. There’s a huge amount of useful and challenging learning, and I’ll be putting out a couple of papers summarising some important threads later this year.
Introduction to the 2017 CPA-Zicklin Index by Morris Pearl: “In our modern financial system, investors, by necessity, delegate virtually all control over the businesses in which they invest to a board of directors. That board then, perhaps by necessity, perhaps not, often delegates virtually all control to the officers who run the company day to day. That usually works out pretty well.
Cloud, big data, piracy, virus are common terms in the debates about digital technologies. At the same time they are methaphors that originate from other fields than technology. What normative... MORE
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Scholarly communication has undergone a seismic shift away from closed publishing towards an ever-growing support for open access. With closed publishing models, academic libraries faced a so-called “serials crisis” and were not able to afford the materials they needed for their researchers and students. Partly in response to this problem, open access advocates have argued for increased access, whilst also changing the cost structure of scholarly publishing.
Erarbeitet wurde die Ausstellung im Rahmen eines vom eLearning-Förderfonds unterstützten Seminars unter der Leitung von Dr. Johannes Wienand. Um die Ausstellung technisch zu ermöglichen, wurde das Digitale Münzkabinett der HHU http://www3.hhu.de/muenzkatalog/ikmk/ funktional so erweitert, dass sich die in der Ausstellung gezeigten Exponate direkt mit den entsprechenden Objektpräsentationen im Münzkabinett verbinden lassen.
Monica Bernardi, writing for LabGov gives a well structured overview of Michel Bauwens’ Commons Transition work in Ghent.
We live in times of high political turbulence. Surveying flailing governments from Spain to the United States, it seems a good moment to face up to the evidence of system failures that face us. Millions going to food banks or unable to afford decent housing in the richest countries in the world reveals a systems failure. An epidemic of mental health problems reveals a systems failure. An inability to deal with climate change reveals a systems failure.
The following text was written by Christian Arnsperger and was originally published in Permacircular Horizons.
Technical actors are increasingly developed and deployed for the field of care. How does this interaction between the human and the machine change our understanding of empathy? Can machines be... MORE
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Sintetizar y visibilizar las diferentes formas de acción, movilización y expresión de organizaciones y movimientos sociales. Este es uno de los objetivos de esta iniciativa pionera en Chile, a partir de la cual cualquier persona podrá aportar en la constante construcción de éste, el archivo más grande que existe respecto a este tema en nuestro país.
"Cómo envejecemos: una mirada transdisciplinaria", es el nombre de este programa cuyo objetivo es aportar conocimientos provenientes de distintas disciplinas para comprender esta etapa de la vida en su contexto actual como un proceso vital en sus dimensiones sociales, culturales y biológicas, además de proporcionar claves para el autocuidado que permitan experimentarla de forma saludable.
My previous post on the House and Senate automated driving bills (HB 3388 and SB 1885) concluded by noting that, in addition to the federal government, states and the municipalities within them also play an important role in regulating road safety.
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Bills being considered by Congress deserve our attention—but not our full attention. To wit: When it comes to safety-related regulation of automated driving, existing law is at least as important as the bills currently in Congress (HB 3388 and SB 1885).
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A Internet é um elemento central da vida moderna, a ponto do termo ter se tornado de uso comum no boca-a-boca cotidiano. Até mesmo alguns termos mais técnicos, como “número/endereço de IP”. são relativamente conhecidos pela maior parte dos usuários da rede.
Primer by the American Council for Technology – Industry Advisory Council: “… intended to be a foundational tool in the understanding of blockchain and its use cases within the United States federal government. To that end, it should help allay the concerns that some may have about this new technology by providing an introduction to blockchain and its related technologies, and how blockchain can be safely and securely applied to the right government use cases.
Auch weiterhin weigert sich verdi, mit der zuständigen Tarifgemeinschaft deutscher Länder (TdL) zu verhandeln. Ebenso hat verdi erneut eine gemeinsame Notdienstvereinbarung für den Streik abgelehnt. „Eine solche gemeinsam getragene Notdienstvereinbarung hätte mehr Sicherheit für alle Beschäftigten gebracht. Stattdessen haben sich die Beschäftigten nun nach den Dienstplänen zu richten, die sich in Anerkennung des Streikrechtes auf die dringliche medizinische Versorgung von Patientinnen und Patienten beschränken und sogenannte elektive Eingriffe verschieben.
Vom 27.-31. Oktober 2017 können die Bahnen der Linien U 71 und U73 die Haltestellen „Uni-Kliniken“ und „Universität-Nord/Christophstraße“ nicht anfahren. Zwischen den Haltestellen „Südpark“ und „Kirchplatz“ werden stattdessen Ersatzbusse eingesetzt. Die U83 entfällt komplett, ihr Weg wird durch andere Linien übernommen.In der Zeit vom 2.-5. November (jeweils 4 Uhr) wird der Bereich der Uniklinik von der 704 überhaupt nicht angefahren.
Der von Dr. Sascha Bechmann (Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft) herausgegebene Sammelband "Sprache und Medizin" greift interdisziplinäre Beiträge zur medizinischen Sprache auf und zielt darauf ab, die Arzt-Patienten-Kommunikation zu stärken.
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Fabio Chiusi (Giornalista e Fellow Centro Nexa)
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Thu, 02/11/2017 - 11:30 to 12:30luogo: Via Boggio 65/a | Torino (primo piano)