ChiC: “The unprecedented hyper connectivity enabled by digital technologies and the Internet are rapidly changing the opportunities we have to address some of the society’s biggest challenges: environmental preservation, reducing inequalities, fostering inclusion and putting in place sustainable economic models.
O CIJIC – Centro de investigação jurídica do ciberespaço da Faculdade de direito da Universidade de Lisboa – em boa hora, associou-se a esta iniciativa – em Portugal patrocinada primacialmente pelo Projecto MiudosSegurosna.Net – cujo epílogo resultará na ulterior construção de um livro e de uma carta de Direitos e Deveres da Criança e Adolescente na Internet, a serem lançados publicamente em Janeiro e Fevereiro de 2018.
Op woensdag 13 september vond de presentatie plaats van het boek (papier en e-boek!) The Riddle of the Real City van Wim Nijenhuis. In de Balkenzaal van de Academie van Bouwkunst ging Wim Nijenhuis in gesprek met Rixt Hoekstra en Miriam Rasch, ingeleid door Maike van Stiphout.
Cities are disproportionately entangled in the critical challenges that we collectively face. Cities consume disproportionate amounts of energy and produce disproportionate amounts of waste while contributing significantly to economic and racial inequality. If cities continue pursuing contemporary development strategies, things are bound to get worse as the share of global population living in cities is projected by the UN to grow to two thirds by 2050 from just over half today.
So, what about politics? (#SWAP) is a fully packed symposium presenting mainly very concrete projects that deal with new forms of political action and governance in the contemporary network society. With examples from liquid democracy, e-governance, civic intelligence, platform cooperativism and autonomous self-organisation.
Florencio Utreras es el primer chileno en alcanzar la máxima distinción otorgada por la Internet Society, organismo internacional fundado en 1992 por los pioneros de la web. El reconocimiento fue entregado por su contribución al desarrollo de las redes académicas e internet en Chile y América Latina.
Con el objetivo de entregar conocimientos estructurales de anatomía pélvica y perineal a través de clases, videos, disección laparoscópica y perineal a donantes humanos, el departamento de Obstetricia y Ginecología del Hospital Clínico de la U.
Estado e território
O sistema internacional, desde o século XVII, estrutura-se sobre as ideias de soberania dos Estados e dos povos, bem como no exercício de poder limitado a um território. As fronteiras implicam não apenas na própria afirmação dos Estados, mas também em um compromisso mútuo de, em regra, não interferência nos demais. Essa divisão, contudo, não é – nem pode ser- hermética. Há, para tanto, a previsão de mecanismos específicos de harmonização, cooperação e expressão extraterritorial.
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Do we already have the necessary trust in AI, and if not, how do we create it?
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Urs Gasser shares some thoughts on how we learn to trust new technologies in a time of rapid change:
Gliazellen, die im Gehirn in mehreren verschiedenen Typen auftreten, wurde lange Zeit keine große wissenschaftliche Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt, galten sie doch vor allem als Stützstruktur für Nervenzellen. Erst in jüngerer Zeit erkannte man die elementare Rolle, die sie auch bei der Informationsübertragung im Gehirn spielen. Zudem fand man heraus, dass Gliazellen wesentlich an der Entstehung vieler Erkrankungen, wie zum Beispiel Parkinson oder Epilepsie, beteiligt sind.
Die Biologie, wie sie sich heute darstellt, ist ein großes und weit gefächertes Forschungsfeld, das sich in viele Nebenarme aufteilt. Ein aktueller Bereich, die so genannte synthetische Biologie, beschäftigt sich mit dem Design neuer biologischer Systeme. Zu den angestrebten Zielen gehören unter anderem das Erzeugen neuer Moleküle in Mikroorganismen sowie das Generieren und Verbessern ganzer Organismen.
Interesting Engineering: “The United Nations has created a new office in the Netherlands dedicated to the monitoring and research of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. The new office will collect information about the way in which AI is impacting the world. Researchers will have a particular focus on the way AI relates to global security but will also monitor the effects of job loss from AI and automation.
This work by Pablo Iglesias, leader of insurgent Spanish party Podemos, is now subtitled ‘Podemos and the future of a Democratic Europe’. It wouldn’t have been so originally, because Podemos did not exist when the book was first written. This makes the book of historical interest, though the addition of appendices in this 2015 edition have brought it somewhat up to date, just about justifying the subtitle for a book that was not, and could not have been, about Podemos.
The emergence of a New Story — the transformational narrative which has the power of changing society and culture, along with economics — is being contentiously fought today.
A report on AbilityMate conducted in the context of the Open Design & Manufacturing project.