Teaser
The municipally owned fiber-optic network of Ammon, Idaho provides one model for U.S. public entities and policymakers seeking to increase service competition and innovation.
Publication Date
5 Oct 2017
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Authored by Paddy Leerssen and David Talbot
Successes and failures in the use of digital tools in Catalonia’s rebellion
The battle presently being fought in the streets and polling stations in towns and cities throughout Catalonia before, during and after October 1, in which a diverse civil society has come together in huge numbers, putting their bodies and knowledge in the service of the shared goal of defending what is considered to be real democracy, has also had a crucial battleground in the case of the Internet.
September 7, 2017
About the Festival:
Festival of the Commons will take place on 6-7-8 October 2017, at the Athens School of Fine Arts. The Festival of the Commons unites the efforts of the Festival for Solidarity and Cooperative Economy and the CommonsFest.
Ausgangspunkt der sogenannten „HIT-Übung" (Hochinfektionstransport) war ein infektiöser Patient, der sich nach einem Auslandsaufenthalt zunächst im Gesundheitsamt der Stadt Solingen mit seinen Symptomen vorstellte. An dieses Szenario schloss sich zunächst der Transport in das Krankenhaus Bethanien in Solingen an. Von dort erfolgte die abschließende Verlegung des Patienten in die spezielle Sonderisolierstation der Düsseldorfer Uniklinik. Es ist diese einzige Station dieser Art in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
This blogpost was written by Chikezie Omeje, Kunle Adelowo and Vershima Tingir as part of the Open Data for Development (OD4D) embedded fellowship programme.
Story by the Open Contracting Partnership: “….The “Cocido de oro” scandal is seen as part of a well-organized and well-informed youth movement that has sprung up in Paraguay in recent years.
Center for Cooperative Media: “Working cooperatively is nothing new, to be sure, but how frequently and impactfully news organizations have been collaborating over the last few years is certainly something new. Dramatically shifting business models, technological advances and seismic shifts in audience have lead to groundbreaking and award-winning collaborations around the world, including the Panama Papers and Electionland.
Justin Worland in Time Magazine: “…Out of that realization came a plan to reshape disaster management using big data. Just a few months later, Wani worked with two fellow Stanford students to create a platform to predict the toll of natural disasters. The concept is simple but also revolutionary.
Paper by presented by Anissa Tanweer and Brittany Fiore-Gartland at the Data Science for Social Good Conference: “Recent years have seen growing support for attempts to solve complex social problems through the use of increasingly available, increasingly combinable, and increasingly computable digital data.
Tina Rosenberg in The New York Times: “…No one knew where his family had gone. Then an African refugee in Ottawa told him about Refunite. He went on its website and opened an account. He gave his name, phone number and place of origin, and listed family members he was searching for.
The ‘platform’ metaphor is at once inevitable and misleading. What’s more, we no longer regard it a metaphor. Following Tarleton Gillespie’s proposal to complement the discourse with other images, José... MORE
“How did we get to accept that food, one of the three essentials for life, along with air and water, can be produced, distributed, appropriated and even destroyed on the basis of pure economic considerations?”
Rantzsch hatte den Verband bereits seit 2014 geführt. Der Auftrag sei klar, so der Düsseldorfer Pflegeexperte: „Nie war die Pflege in der öffentlichen und politischen Diskussion so präsent wie heute – das müssen und werden wir nutzen.
Bereits seit 1979 unterstützt die Elterninitiative die Kindermedizin an der Uniklinik Düsseldorf. Neben großen Bauvorhaben wie z.B. dem Elternhaus, in dem Eltern nahe ihrer Kinder auf dem Klinik-Campus wohnen können, werden auch kontinuierlich die Ausstattung und zahlreiche Aktionen auf den Stationen durch Stiftung unterstützt. Dazu zählen auch Angebote wie Clownsbesuche in der Klinik, Kinderkochkurse, therapeutisches Reiten, Musik- und Sporttherapie sowie Ski- und Segelfreizeiten –auch für Geschwisterkinder.
Ana Manzanedo and Alícia Trepat Pont: “Everything that can become a platform will become a platform”. The potential of platforms “ is simply too compelling to deny: exponential scaling, exponential learning, and very low cost innovation and localization”. 1
The future of work will be defined by platforms, or so it seems with the “success” stories of the Ubers, Airbnbs and Taskrabbits developed in a wide range of sectors.
Paper by Caio Libânio Melo Jerônimo, Claudio E. C. Campelo, Cláudio de Souza Baptista: “The need to use online technologies that favor the understanding of city dynamics has grown, mainly due to the ease in obtaining the necessary data, which, in most cases, are gathered with no cost from social networks services.
El año 2015 la NASA anunció el descubrimiento de la presencia de este elemento, una noticia que conmocionó al mundo científico debido a sus implicancias. Recientemente, un grupo de científicos de la Casa de Bello, la NASA, y las universidades de Arizona, de Talca y de Concepción, concluyeron que no se trataba de "flujos de agua líquida", sino que más bien de flujos rocosos con altos contenidos de agua. El equipo liderado por el académico Pablo García-Chevesich desarrolló un modelo que permite precisar dónde podría encontrarse abundante agua líquida en el planeta rojo.
El trabajo de los profesores Sergio Floody y Luis Núñez es parte de "Levantamiento tipológico y construcción normalizada del bombo chinchinero", proyecto CreArt que busca aportar a la preservación de esta tradición nacional."Levantamiento tipológico y construcción normalizada del bombo chinchinero" es el título del proyecto financiado con recursos del fondo CreArt -impulsado por la Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Desarrollo (VID) de la Universidad de Chile- que se propone rescatar el sonido y la construcción del bombo urbano, también conoc
Geoff Mulgan in Times Higher Education: “How might social science become more influential, more relevant and more useful in the years to come?