A Fundação Getulio Vargas, por meio de suas escolas de direito FGV Direito SP e FGV Direito Rio, realiza uma série de webinars para discutir as questões jurídicas relacionadas à pandemia do COVID-19. O objetivo da série Direito e a Crise do Coronavírus - A contribuição do sistema jurídico para o enfrentamento da pandemia e a superação de seus efeitos econômicos e sociais é colaborar com o debate sobre a conjuntura atual marcada pela crise do coronavírus, especialmente do ponto de vista jurídico.

Der „Sonderfonds für die Ärmsten der Stadt“ wird von Sabine Tüllmann, Vorstandsvorsitzende der BürgerStiftung, betreut. „Da es ein Sonderfonds ist, gibt es keine Verwaltungskosten. Das Geld geht zu 100 Prozent an die Bedürftigen“, erklärt sie. „Wir konnten schon einigen helfen, doch wird weitere Unterstützung gebraucht. Das merken wir täglich: Uns erreichen viele Anfragen, wie etwa die nach einem Ersatz für die kostenlosen Mittagessen für Schulkinder. Daran arbeiten wir gerade.“

Manche Materialien verhalten sich wie Flüssigkeiten – sie fließen, wenn eine Kraft auf sie einwirkt –, andere hingegen wie Festkörper, die ihre Form behalten, selbst wenn eine äußere Kraft auf sie einwirkt. Es gibt aber auch Materialien, die je nach Situation die Eigenschaften eines Festkörpers oder einer Flüssigkeit zeigen.

Coronavirus is a political crucible, melting down and reshaping current norms. Will the new era be a “Fortress Earth” or a harbinger of a transformed society based on a new set of values?

Think Bigger

Whatever you might be thinking about the long-term impacts of the coronavirus epidemic, you’re probably not thinking big enough.

On 13 May 2020, Jessica Heesen will participate online with a keynote lecture and panel discussion in the conference "Disruptive Technologies @ the c-tv Conference 2020. Artificially intelligent, traceable secure, high-resolution mobile and ethically responsible" in St. Pölten; the event can be followed at https://ctvkonferenz.fhstp.ac.at/

In covid-19, neoliberal capitalism has met a formidable foe. The pandemic has shown just how fragile and dysfunctional the market/state order — as a production apparatus, ideology, and culture — truly is. Countless market sectors are now more or less collapsing with a highly uncertain future ahead. With a few notable exceptions, government responses to the virus range from ineffectual to self-serving to clownish.

This year's Easter presented us with special challenges regarding COVID-19. We were and are perhaps confronted very directly with illness, death and suffering in our immediate surroundings, or we experienced and still experience rather indirectly, be it through the media and/or through the restrictions of our everyday life, what a pandemic can mean. This raises the question of the manageability, meaning and coherence of what we are experiencing.

Como parte de un amplio esfuerzo internacional en el que participan científicos de más de 50 países, un grupo de investigadores de nuestro país está participando de un estudio que busca verificar si existe relación entre la enfermedad COVID-19 y la pérdida de olfato. La encuesta, traducida a más de 20 idiomas, es impulsada por el Consorcio Global para la Investigación Quimicosensorial, del que forma parte la Dra. Alexia Núñez, de la Facultad de Ciencias de la U.

"¿Quién lo iba a decir?" es el nombre del tema compuesto por Patricia Bisbal, enfermera de la Unidad de Pacientes Críticos del hospital universitario, el cual se ha viralizado en redes sociales, y que trae un mensaje de apoyo y optimismo a las y los trabajadores de la salud y a la sociedad. Esta iniciativa forma parte de la campaña #ChileCuentaConSuUniversidad, la cual busca visibilizar los diferentes frentes de acción de las y los integrantes de la comunidad universitaria frente a la pandemia.

La U. de Chile busca identificar diversos proyectos y acciones de estudiantes, funcionarios y funcionarias, académicos y académicas, y egresados y egresadas, dedicados a aportar, desde distintos frentes, a responder al impacto de la pandemia en nuestro país, desde el rol público del plantel y sus integrantes.

Académicos, funcionarios, estudiantes y egresados de la Universidad de Chile están llamados a esta campaña de recolección de fondos para adquirir equipos -computadores o tablets- que puedan ser prestados a estudiantes con dificultades para participar de las clases a distancia en el contexto de la pandemia mundial.

50 years ago when the first Earth Day happened, the networks that would later form the Internet were only beginning.

20 years later, when Earth Day 1990 turned the celebration into a global event, the World-Wide Web existed only as a single website in Switzerland.

This article appeared first on MIT Enterprise Forum Pan Arab Region . “It was my mistake and I am sorry.” This is what Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg told the US Congress back in 2018 when asked about the data misuse by Cambridge Analytica to publish targeted political ads to Facebook users[...]

On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

Surveillance cameras are spread in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, with unparalleled chaos. While the responsibility of who manages the data produced by those cameras is unclear, an even bigger question is, what purpose do they serve? The Municipality of Beirut operates more than two thousand public cameras, which record videos[...]

An illuminated, 170 square meter satellite photograph of Berlin covers floor and walls of the exhibition space of the former Stasi-prison in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen – it visualises the surveillance network of the Ministry of State Security (MfS) which reached out across Eastern and Western Germany until 1989. The map turns into a multimedia projection that locates…

The belief that we are living in a data age—one characterized by unprecedented amounts of data, with unprecedented potential—has  become mainstream.