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Student employee “Ranking Digital Rights”

How do large IT companies respect their customers’ right to freedom of expression? And what do they do to protect users’ privacy? The team of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) is currently looking for a student employee with enthusiasm for technical solutions for data-based research projects. The 15-20 hours per week…
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HHU-Nostalgia - Vorlesung im Hörsaal der Hautklinik, 1986

Die Bildergalerie "HHU-Nostalgia" stellt interessante Archiv-Motive vor und wird kontinuierlich ausgebaut und ergänzt: Viel Spaß! 
Hier geht es zur kompletten Galerie (Übersichtsseite).
Haben Sie vielleicht auch noch ein interessantes "historisches" Foto der HHU? Die HHU-Bildredaktion freut sich über jede Einsendung: Dieter Joswig, Tel. +49 211 81-14861E-Mail senden

Biometric Mirror

University of Melbourne: “Biometric Mirror exposes the possibilities of artificial intelligence and facial analysis in public space. The aim is to investigate the attitudes that emerge as people are presented with different perspectives on their own, anonymised biometric data distinguished from a single photograph of their face.

It Is a Challenging Time for the Internet: We Must Not Let It Be Undermined

On 1 September I start work as CEO of the Internet Society. I have a lot to do to live up to the example set by Kathy Brown with all that she achieved during her leadership. It is a great honour, and I appreciate the trust the Board of Trustees has placed in me. I will work daily to earn the same trust from the rest of the Internet community, in part by being transparent about what drives me to do this.

Online Bettors Can Sniff Out Weak Psychology Studies

Ed Yong at the Atlantic: “Psychologists are in the midst of an ongoing, difficult reckoning.

The rise of policy innovation labs: A catalog of policy innovation labs across Canada

Report by the Centre for Policy Innovation and Public Engagement (CPIPE): “In recent years, governments all over the world have been embracing new and innovative ways to develop public policies and design public services, from crowdsourcing to human-centred design thinking.

Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Age

Book by Thouvenin, Florent (et al.): “… examines the fundamental question of how legislators and other rule-makers should handle remembering and forgetting information (especially personally identifiable information) in the digital age. It encompasses such topics as privacy, data protection, individual and collective memory, and the right to be forgotten when considering data storage, processing and deletion.

Why Proven Solutions Struggle to Scale Up

Kriss Deiglmeier & Amanda Greco at Stanford Social Innovation Review: “…As we applied the innovation continuum to the cases we studied, we identified barriers to scale that often trap social innovations in a stagnation chasm before they achieve diffusion and scaling.
 

Social media big data analytics: A survey

Norjihan Abdul Ghani et al in Computers in Human Behavior: “Big data analytics has recently emerged as an important research area due to the popularity of the Internet and the advent of the Web 2.0 technologies. Moreover, the proliferation and adoption of social media applications have provided extensive opportunities and challenges for researchers and practitioners.

One of New York City’s most urgent design challenges is invisible

Diana Budds at Curbed: “Algorithms are invisible, but they already play a large role in shaping New York City’s built environment, schooling, public resources, and criminal justice system.

Winners Take All

Book by Anand Giridharadas: “… takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can–except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it. We see how they rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor; how they lavishly reward “thought leaders” who redefine “change” in winner-friendly ways; and how they constantly seek to do more good, but never less harm.

The Smart Transition: An Opportunity for a Sensor-Based Public-Health Risk Governance?

Anna Berti Suman in the International Review of Law, Computers & Technology: “This contribution analyses the promises and challenges of using bottom-up produced sensors data to manage public-health risks in the (smart) city. The article criticizes traditional ways of governing public-health risks with the aim to inspect the contribution that a sensor-based risk governance may bring to the fore.

With real-time decisions, Citi Bike breaks the cycle of empty stations

Melanie Lefkowitz at Cornell Chronicle: “Cornell research has improved bike sharing in New York and other cities, providing tools to ensure bikes are available when and where they’re needed through a crowdsourcing system that uses real-time information to make decisions.

India's New Data Protection Framework: Building an Inclusive Digital Economy that Protects Privacy and Empowers Citizens

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Please join the Honorable BN Srikrishna, Chairman of the Group of Experts on Data Protection in India & former Justice of the Supreme Court of India, as he discusses the drafting of India's first ever data protection framework, submitted to the Indian government on July 27, 2018.September 19, 2018Stanford University

¿Qué es la industria 4.0 y qué desafíos traerá a Chile?

Desde hace algunos años se discute en algunos círculos empresariales y académicos, la existencia de una cuarta revolución industrial impulsada por el impacto de la tecnología digital y el procesamiento de datos, dando vida a lo que se conoce como "fábrica inteligente". Sus consecuencias: una explosión de la productividad, pero también una creciente automatización -y desaparición- de numerosos puestos de trabajo.

Arqueólogos reescriben la prehistoria del Norte Chico

Osamentas humanas encontradas en plena construcción de la doble vía que uniría La Serena con Vallenar en 2014, forzaron el cese de las obras en un área de casi dos hectáreas, sobre las cuales el Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales ordenó a la empresa Sacyr una caracterización arqueológica y posterior rescate. El trabajo de un equipo de 70 profesionales liderado por los arqueólogos egresados de la U.

How to Prevent Winner-Takes-All Democracy

Kaushik Basu at Project Syndicate: “Democracy is in crisis. Fake news – and fake allegations of fake news – now plagues civil discourse, and political parties have proved increasingly willing to use xenophobia and other malign strategies to win elections.

Better ways to measure the new economy

Valerie Hellinghausen and Evan Absher at Kauffman Foundation: “The old measure of “jobs numbers” as an economic indicator is shifting to new metrics to measure a new economy.

NTU and SMRT to trial new monitoring systems on the train network to improve rail reliability

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Strengthening Foundations for Creating Open Internet Standards

The Internet Engineering Task Force has reached a significant milestone in the process of evolving its own administrative structure to best suit the current requirements of its work. After nearly two years of discussion about various options, the IETF community has created the IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC), a new legal entity.