Elizabeth Sawin at Stanford Social Innovation Review: “In Japan, manufacturing facilities use “green curtains”—living panels of climbing plants—to clean the air, provide vegetables for company cafeterias, and reduce energy use for cooling.
Reflections by Stefaan Verhulst on “the potential (and challenges) of Distributed Ledgers for “Market for Lemons” Conditions: We live in a data age, and it has become common to extol the transformative power of data and information. It is now conventional to assume that many of our most pressing public problems—everything from climate change to terrorism to mass migration—are amenable to a “data fix.”
Reflections on the potential (and challenges) of Distributed Ledgers for “Market for Lemons” Conditions
(Cross-posted from Medium)
“We live in a data age, and it has become common to extol the transformative power of data and information. It is now conventional to assume that many of our most pressing public problems—everything from climate change to terrorism to mass migration—are amenable to a “data fix.”
Centre for Information Policy Leadership: “Accountability now has broad international support and has been adopted in many laws, including in the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), regulatory policies and organisational practices.
Earlier this month, the Department of Justice’s “Cyber-Digital Task Force” released a report “assess[ing] the Department’s work in the cyber area.” The report, which runs over 150 pages, covers a broad range of topics. Among these, in the “Looking Ahead” chapter, is “Going Dark”: DOJ’s name for a constellation of issues that render the government “unable to obtain critical information in an intelligible and usable form (or at all),” primarily encryption (and default encryption in particular).
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On July 6, 2018, the GovLab’s Ayushi Roy and Kajol Char spoke with Paulo Henrique, the Chief of Technology for the HackerLab within the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, about e-Democracia – the HackerLab’s suite of constituent engagement tools.
Until 2030, half of our jobs will have disappeared. Simply gone, fallen prey to “Artificial Intelligence”, replaced by robots. Ghostly visions like these are now wandering through feuilletons, best-selling books and World Economic Forums alike. Automation is ostensibly endangering democracy, society, and it is to blame for Trump in any case. Die virale Gespenstergeschichte von der „Hälfte…
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La gran inocuidad de la fórmula y la alta estabilidad de la encapsulación para su adecuada absorción son parte de los nuevos avances de la investigación liderada por los académicos Andrew Quest, de la Facultad de Medicina, y Marcelo Kogan y Felipe Oyarzún, de la Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas.
El conflicto económico desatado entre ambas potencias, quienes han elevado aranceles por miles de millones de dólares a productos del otro país, ha generado preocupación en el mundo debido a las consecuencias que puede tener en la economía mundial.
El equipo de estudiantes del Centro Avanzado de Tecnología para la Minería (AMTC, por su sigla en inglés) de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas obtuvo el tercer lugar en la categoría "Plataforma social estándar" del torneo internacional RoboCup@Home, realizado en Canadá, gracias a este robot que puede interactuar con seres humanos, reconocer su entorno, mantener conversaciones simples y reconocer expresiones faciales y emociones.Durante todo un año el equipo de AMTC de la U.
The APAC & Middle East Chapters joined hands to organize their combined Regional Chapters Meeting from 11 to 12 May in Kathmandu, Nepal. 23 Fellows representing 18 regional Chapters and Women SIG were nominated by their respective Chapters/SIGs to participate in this meeting. Half of the meeting focused on collaboratively developing action plans that are aligned with the Internet Society’s 2018 campaigns, while the other half was to discuss and address regional and governance-related issues.
Recently, reports on the various aspects of the “future of work” have been accumulating. Nevertheless, the visions about the digital society and the role of work in it seem to be rather vague. What’s more, the moment when machines become autonomous – which can already occur in the next 20 years –, we face an…
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Emojis, gifs and chat programs like Slack are designed to lighten the mood in the office. Our guest contributor Bianca Xenia Jankovska believes: As long as the hierarchies remain rigid, they have the opposite effect. Verstehen Sie mich nicht falsch: Ich habe nichts gegen Emojis. Ich halte es damit wie mit Salz: Ein bisschen kann…
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The Silicon Valley ideology is a morally destitute trap. But could its well-paid staff transform it? Building on her experience as a Google developer and a tech startup founder, guest author Wendy Liu makes the case for building worker power in Silicon Valley. A few weeks ago, WIRED Magazine published an article subtitled Silicon Valley Techies…
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Introduction to the Special issue of Social Media + Society on “Ethics as Methods: Doing Ethics in the Era of Big Data Research”: Building on a variety of theoretical paradigms (i.e., critical theory, [new] materialism, feminist ethics, theory of cultural techniques) and frameworks (i.e., contextual integrity, deflationary perspective, ethics of care), the Special Issue contributes specific cases and fine-grained conceptual distinctions to ongoing discussions about the ethics in data-driven research.
“Social Collaboration” platforms like Slack, Sharepoint or Yammer promise more transparency and employee participation within enterprises. Long ago, one entire economy has found its own way to achieve this: Christopher Olk introduces you to German businesses, and their “Mitbestimmung”. There is a success story that is often being told about the German economy. Were this…
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Paper by Karen Yeung at Modern Law Review: “Many advocates of distributed ledger technologies (including blockchain) claim that these technologies provide the foundations for an organisational form that will enable individuals to transact with each other free from the travails of conventional law, thus offering the promise of grassroots democratic governance without the need for third party intermediaries.
Stevphen Shukaitis. “Space is the (non)place: Martians, Marxists, and the outer space of the radical imagination” Sociological Review 57 Suppl (2009).