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Just like you, there are others frustrated by “business-as-usual”.  They are frustrated by the “lip service” provided to stakeholders.  Like when a company says “employees are our greatest asset” but means the opposite.  

By contrast, there are organisations where stakeholders have an actual stake.  These include: 

This is an edited excerpt of Part IV and Annexure ‘B’ of CCG’s Comments to the National Security Council Secretariat on the National Cyber Security Strategy 2020 (NCSS 2020). The full text of the Comments can be accessed here. This consolidated organogram is a depiction of cyber security institutions in India as an inter-ministerial and inter-departmental […]

Die Neuronen sind allgemein als die aktiven Zellen bekannt, die im Gehirn ‚das Denken übernehmen‘. Doch ohne die Gliazellen gäbe es gar kein Gehirn, denn sie erst ermöglichen die Arbeit der Nervenzellen. Darüber hinaus weiß man inzwischen, dass Gliazellen auch eine aktive Rolle bei neuronalen Prozessen spielen.

Von dem Gesamtbetrag werden insgesamt 100.000 € nach Düsseldorf fließen, die zur molekulargenetischen Analyse von Tumorerkrankungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen genutzt werden sollen. Die Düsseldorfer Arbeitsgruppe in der Klinik von Herrn Prof. Dr. Arndt Borkhardt wird insbesondere bioinformatische Analysen von Hochdurchsatz-DNA-Sequenzierdaten durchführen, die auf eine besondere genetische Veranlagung zur Entwicklung von Tumoren von Kindern in Spanien als auch in Deutschland schließen lassen.

In ihrer Dissertation zeichnet Anna Michaelis entlang von jüdischer Demografie und Medizin sowie jüdischen Wohltätigkeitsorganisationen nach, wie das jüdische Bürgertum zwischen 1890 und 1917 angesichts neuer Herausforderungen wie sinkenden Geburtenraten, der jüdischen Einwanderung aus Osteuropa und des erstarkenden Antisemitismus versuchte, die Zukunft seines Kollektivs abzusichern.

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Russell Newman joins Jasmine McNealy to dicuss his book, The Paradoxes of Network Neutralities (MIT Press, 2019), which sets out to provide an explication of the debates surrounding network neutrality.

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The specificity of both Twitter and Facebook’s rules around disinformation leave room for known disinformation agents to work during elections, said Joan Donovan.

"The fact that a known disinformation operation enjoyed hyper-engagement on Facebook shows that Facebook has not been able to stop the weaponization of their product by those with some well-placed resources.”

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BKC fellow Mutale Nkonde joined Sunday Civics to discuss disinformation targeted towards Black communities.

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Joan Donovan spoke to The Washington Post about the coronavirus and misinformation:

“We’re in a low information zone. Scientists have been looking at this, but there isn’t a ton of well marked patterns around how this particular virus spreads,” said Donovan.

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evelyn douek weighed in on the upsides and shortcomings drawbacks of Facebook‘s new content moderation policy. 

“While it’s unacceptable to be having completely unaccountable and private entities making decisions, we also don’t want governments having their hands all over it. … So the oversight board is a new model for handling this.”

The UK had plenty of opportunities to veto the controversial EU copyright legislation, so why did it wait so long to torpedo Article 13?

Zenzele Best, Program Coordinator for Assembly: Disinformation, offers an inside look at the Assembly Student Fellowship.

Joan Donovan and Natalie Gyenes spoke to NBC News about the coronavirus and misinformation. 

“Just as platforms have provided the capacity to mobilize massive crowds, it also scales scams and fake charities in ways that the public falls prey to,” said Donovan. “We’ve seen similar attempts at keyword squatting by influencers using ecological crises and other significant events to raise money for themselves.”

Nat Gyenes said public health officials and organizations will have to compete harder if they’re to outpace misinformation.

We asked members of Berkman Klein’s Misinformation Working Group their thoughts about misinformation and the virus.

“Pandemics reasonably create fear, which can be capitalized upon by actors seeking to sensationalize the pandemic,” says Assembly: Disinformation staff fellow Oumou Ly.

Read more on Medium

Don’t blame shadowy foreign hackers for the chaos in Iowa. Blame Shadow’s caucus app, says faculty associate Zeynep Tufekci.

”If the Russians were responsible for this confusion and disarray, that might be a relatively easy problem to fix. This is worse.”

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Número de vagas: 1INSCRIÇÕES ENCERRADAS
A Coordenação de Graduação da FGV Direito Rio procura um estagiário de Administração de Empresas.
Requisitos:

• Estudante de administração de empresas;
• Organização e pró-atividade;
• Domínio do Pacote Office, principalmente Excel;
• Espírito de equipe;
• Disponibilidade de horário para estagiar 6h por dia.

Atividades: