At the beginning of November, I visited Uruguay in the capacity of Open Knowledge Foundation’s Partnerships Lead to take part in #MaratónDeDatos, a pool of various events focused on the work with data, open data and open knowledge, and a meeting point for the global community engaged with the topic.

Vous trouverez ci-dessus la conférence « Gouverner le climat par les marchés du carbone » du Pr Benoît Frydman dans le cadre du cycle de conférences 2023-2024 « Origins and Structures of Global Economic Governance ».

Biographie du conférencier

Benoit Frydman, juriste et philosophe, est professeur à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) et directeur du Centre Perelman de philosophie du droit. Il est membre de l’Académie royale de Belgique et docteur honoris causa des universités d’Aix-Marseille et de Genève.

Résumé de la conférence

SummaryUsing data from Poland, we show evidence that political indoctrination at school reduces education attainment and labour force participation later in life.

The Good Things Foundation supports people in the UK with overcoming three critical barriers to digital participation: access, skills, and support. The foundation provides wrap-around support and online courses that cover a range of skills such as how to switch on a device, connect to a network, make an appointment with a doctor, make an online video call and avoid online scams.
The research shows that supporting individuals in becoming digitally included not only helps bridge the existing digital divide but also has broader impacts such as:

Vous trouverez ci-dessus la conférence « Sovereignty, Empire and the Birth of Global Economic Governance » du Pr Jamie Martin (Harvard University) dans le cadre du cycle de conférences 2023-2024 « Origins and Structures of Global Economic Governance »

Biographie du conférencier

Controversial, daunting, and disconcerting for journalists: this is the essence of the proposed media law in Lebanon under consideration in parliamentary committees. Thirteen years after the initial draft formulated by the Maharat Foundation—a non-governmental organization dedicated to matters of freedom of opinion and expression—alongside MP Ghassan Moukheiber, the law looks bad for journalism in Lebanon.

So kompliziert ihr Name ist, so wichtig sind sie für den menschlichen Organismus im Kampf gegen Krankheitserreger und Krebs: Vγ9Vδ2-T-Zellen sind Teil des Immunsystems und bekämpfen als Untergruppe der weißen Blutkörperchen Tumorzellen und mit Krankheitserregern infizierte Zellen. Ihre potenziellen Opfer erkennen sie an deren veränderten Zellstoffwechsel.

קרן ויקימדיה מביעה את דאגתה העמוקה ממקרי ניתוק האינטרנט הנמשכים ברצועת עזה, הפוגעים באופן ישיר ביכולתם של אנשים לקבל ולשתף מידע מוויקיפדיה וממיזמי ויקימדיה אחרים. בתור המלכ”ר המארח את מיזמי ויקימדיה, הקרן מאמינה שמקרי הניתוק האלה מאיימים על משימתנו לשתף ידע ברחבי העולם ולהגן על הגישה לידע כאחת מזכויות האדם.

Amid the evolving digital landscape, where trust has become both a concern and a necessity, Amazon Web Services (AWS) stands out as a pivotal force bolstering economic progress and societal trust in emerging technologies across various regions. A look at Israel’s digital economy illustrates this transformation, with AWS cloud solutions not only encouraging economic growth but also bridging divides between digital natives and traditional enterprises1.

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Auf seiner Sitzung am 4. Dezember 2023 hat der Universitätsrat der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) seine bisherige Vorsitzende, Prof. Dr. Margret Wintermantel, in ihrem Amt bestätigt. Wintermantel hatte das Amt im Juni 2021 übernommen, nachdem ihr Vorgänger, Prof. Dr. Helmut Schwarz, zum 1. April 2021 aus dem Universitätsrat ausgeschieden war. Wintermantels zweite Amtszeit beginnt am 1. April 2024 an.

Global Counsel’s surveys found public awareness of generative AI to be strikingly high for a novel technology, with around 9 in 10 in the UK, US and Germany claiming to have heard of it. This awareness is largely due to media coverage of dramatic forecasts of its risks, as familiarity was still nascent, with older adults were much less likely to have used the technology (14% of German adults aged 55+ having used ChatGPT compared to 57% of 18-24s). Also there were significant levels of misunderstanding about its functionality and a conflation with other technologies.

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