In Eritrea or Cuba, people routinely buy Wikipedia for one dollar.[1]
Wait, what? Isn’t Wikipedia free? Of course it is—Wikipedia, in fact, is entirely free and very easy to reach if you are not one of four billion people who still do not have internet connectivity.

Following the publication of the 2017 Media Pluralism Monitor the CMPF held a major conference in Brussels to discuss the results and reflect on the potential for including digital-related indicators in future implementations of the monitor. Director, Pier Luigi Parcu, Scientific Coordinator, Elda Brogi and researchers Iva Nenadic and Mario de Azevedo Cunha Viola were joined by experts, scholars, stakeholders and officials at the Borschette Centre in Brussels.

Growing up, a family friend will run all the way from her house with a pot of soup hoping to find out something we had at home that could complement the soup she had. On days when my twin sister and I were also missing a part of a meal, she will also return the good deed. Though the distance was not a short one, the thoughts of having a complete meal urged us on.
This neighbor of mine currently studies in Ukraine and none of us has or late had any thoughts of running all the way from Ghana to Ukraine – that will be a new record for the longest run.

Now that it is a federation, is this the opportune moment to institutionalize open data practices for local governments?
By SAROJ BISTA, KATHMANDU, NEPAL

En la presentación de esta nueva instancia, la ministra de Educación, Marcela Cubillos aseguró que el Estado debe reconocer "la especificidad de ellas y la relevancia de su misión al servicio del país". Por su parte el Rector de la U.

Gracias a la implementación de un software de reconocimiento de sistemas de galaxias relacionadas entre sí a partir de un algoritmo computacional, el equipo liderado por el astrónomo de la U. de Chile e investigador del Centro de Excelencia en Astrofísica y Tecnologías Afines (CATA), Luis Campusano, permitió identificar nuevos cúmulos. El trabajo fue publicado en la revista científica The Astrophysical Journal.Un algoritmo computacional creado por un equipo de astrónomos e ingenieros informáticos mostró que no todos los cúmulos (o enjambres) de galaxias son iguales.

Alireza Akhlaghi had plenty of time inside the famed Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque in Iran to capture the photo that leads this blog post. Why? He walked in at exactly noon, just as the building was about to close down for two hours. He was able to convince the mosque’s guards to let him inside anyway, even though they told him that they’d have to lock him inside until the building re-opened. “I was all by myself and taking photos,” he wrote.

We are pleased to announce that Facebook, one of the world’s leading social networking platforms, has given $1 million to the Wikimedia Endowment—a permanent, independent fund dedicated to ensuring the long-term sustainability of Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects.

INC is happy to announce that in January we will publish a new title in the Theory on Demand series: Good Data – Edited by Angela Daly, S. Kate Devitt and Monique Mann.
To celebrate this there will be a launch & drinks on 24 January 2019 – 17:00 @Spui25.
The editors Kate Devitt and Monique Mann, and DATACTIVE will discuss the book and open the discussion.
Good Data

Número de vagas: 10O curso de graduação da FGV Direito Rio está com inscrições abertas para a seleção de Assistência Acadêmica destinada à supervisão e ao acompanhamento de Field Project - atividade de prática real.
Os documentos solicitados no edital abaixo deverão ser enviados para o e-mail lucasaroldi@fgv.br, no ato da inscrição até o dia 13 de janeiro de 2019.

 

The “Youth Observatory” is a project created by the members of the Youth SIG of the Internet Society, which seeks to build a participative platform which uses different tools in order to bring the knowledge of the governance and the Internet’s principles to the youth, no matter the language, sex, race, religion, building new capacities among them. Participants: Juliana Novaes, Carlos Rubí, Ángel David Santiago, Eduardo Tome, Giovanna Michelato, Guilherme Alves, Isabela Inês, Jhon Caballero, Paula Côrte Real, Juan Pablo González, Augusto Luciano Mathurin, Renata Ribeiro.

By Jose Luis Vivero-Pol (Editor), Tomaso Ferrando (Editor), Olivier De Schutter (Editor), Ugo Mattei (Editor)

From the scientific and industrial revolution to the present day, food – an essential element of life – has been progressively transformed into a private, transnational, mono-dimensional commodity of mass consumption for a global market. But over the last decade there has been an increased recognition that this can be challenged and reconceptualized if food is regarded and enacted as a commons.

After almost a decade, the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) remains a cornerstone of international Internet and local governance with participation from over 140 countries. The approach of the IGF is simple: anyone who has a stake in the future of the Internet can go and be heard. It was founded and operates on the principles of being bottom-up, transparent, and inclusive.

New technologies like AI open up a lot of chances but also bear many risks. Couldn’t we just learn how to deal with this from science-fiction films having already played through the major issues of AI? Unfortunately not. Rather than give advice, science-fiction distracts from the currently relevant ethical and legal challenges of AI and the socio-political implications.

We-Guild is a project to develop a platform for self-employed people to get sick-pay. A platform where everyone you trust chips in when you need it in exchange of you chipping in for them when they need it.

Watch the video if you haven’t already and visit our site for further info:
www.we-guild.co.uk

1/3 aller Studierenden in NRW beenden ihr Studium vorzeitig. Ein noch größerer Teil zweifelt im Studienverlauf. Zweifel gehört zu fast jeder getroffenen Entscheidung und kann sowohl quälend als auch ein guter Ratgeber sein, etwas oder vieles anders zu machen. Die HHU möchte Studienzweifler künftig noch besser unterstützen und lädt zu einem BarCamp ein. Teilnehmen kann jeder, der sich für das Thema Zweifel am Studium, den Umgang damit und Unterstützungsangebote interessiert und sich vorab angemeldet hat. 

Die Bildergalerie "HHU-Nostalgia" stellt interessante Archiv-Motive vor und wird kontinuierlich ausgebaut und ergänzt: Viel Spaß! 
Hier geht es zur kompletten Galerie (Übersichtsseite).
Mit dem heutigen Motiv endet unsere große Reihe der nostalgischen HHU-Erinnerungen - wir hoffen ihr hattet Freude daran mit uns in Erinnerungen zu schwelgen und die vielen schönen Momente der Geschichte der Heinrich-Heine-Uni wieder aufleben zu lassen. 

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Familiares, amigos, estudiantes, académicos y autoridades universitarias participaron este 19 de diciembre de la ceremonia de entrega del reconocimiento a los académicos de la Facultad de Medicina Lionel Gil, Miguel Oyonarte y Luis Robles.