Contemporary cities seem to be in a race to be increasingly ‘smart’ and data-driven. At smart city Expos around the world, visitors are presented with new visual modes of modes of knowing and governing. Dashboards providing birds-eye views of the real-time movement of objects in the city, are perhaps the most iconic of these visualizations. Often presented in a sort of control room environment, they illustrate the promise of instantaneous overviews things like cars, people and trans bins. These are all relevant objects for organizing dynamic cityscapes and creating an efficient city.

In November 2017, the Internet Society hosted its first Indigenous Connectivity Summit in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This event brought together over 200 Indigenous community members to talk about Internet access solutions, and the importance of connectivity for socioeconomic, health, community empowerment, education, and cultural and language preservation.

Paper by Devid Kumar Basyal et al: “The purpose of this paper is to revisit the relationship between E-government and corruption using global panel data from 176 countries covering the period from 2003 to 2014, considering other potential determinants, such as economic prosperity (gross domestic product per capita [GDPPC]), price stability (inflation), good governance (political stability and government effectiveness) and press freedom (civil liberties and political rights) indicators.

Olivia Solon at The Guardian: “In August 2016, the Australian government released an “anonymised” data set comprising the medical billing records, including every prescription and surgery, of 2.9 million people.

Youth and privacy in the Americas: Hiperderecho, Perú How do youth allies promote young people’s critical thinking on privacy, in informal learning contexts in the Americas? This blog post is part of a series showcasing the work of different organizations at the intersection of youth development, digital rights, and online safety. Quick facts Who: Miguel Morachimo from Hiperderecho What: Legal advocacy, campaigning, workshops Mission/vision: To promote local development through solidary social economic practices in different […]

Engaging Local Government Leaders:  “The Diversity Dashboard is a crowd-funded data collection effort managed by ELGL and hosted on the OpenGovplatform. The data collection includes the self reported gender, race, age, and veteran status of Chief Administrative Officers and Assistant Chief Administrative Officers in local governments of all sizes and forms.

17.07.2018 - 13:00 - 14:00 Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Französische Straße 9 Berlin

Ionenkanäle sind porenbildende Proteinkomplexe, die einen Transport elektrisch geladener Teilchen über biologische Membranen ermöglichen. Ihnen kommen zentrale Aufgaben in der Physiologie einer jeden Zelle zu, die u.a. von der Aufnahme und Ausscheidung von Stoffen bis hin zur Entstehung und Weiterleitung elektrischer Aktivität reichen. Aufgrund dieser universellen Bedeutung stellen Ionenkanäle wichtige Zielstrukturen in der Pharmakotherapie einer Vielzahl von Erkrankungen des Menschen dar.

Book by Frank R. Baumgartner, Derek A. Epp, and Kelsey Shoub: “Suspect Citizens offers the most comprehensive look to date at the most common form of police-citizen interactions, the routine traffic stop. Throughout the war on crime, police agencies have used traffic stops to search drivers suspected of carrying contraband.

Die Leopoldina ist die Deutsche Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften und gehört zu den weltweit ältesten Wissenschaftsakademien. Sie vertritt seit 2008 die deutsche Wissenschaft in internationalen Gremien und nimmt zu wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen politischer und gesellschaftlicher Fragen unabhängig Stellung.

Sam Brown at DotEveryone: “..adopting a Responsible Technology approach isn’t straightforward. There’s currently no roadmap, or even any common language, about how to embed responsible technology practices in practical and tangible ways.
That’s why Doteveryone has spent the last year researching the issues organisations face and we’re now developing a model that will help organisations do just that.

Massimo De Angelis. Omnia Sunt Communia: On the Commons and the Transformation to Postcapitalism (London: Zed Books, 2017).
Massimo De Angelis is a thinker very much in the autonomist tradition; he mentions being a student of Harry Cleaver. This comes through loud and clear in his focus on the self-activity of ordinary people, and on the centrality of their self-created and -governed institutions as the kernel of a postcapitalist successor society.

Der Dekan beglückwünschte die erfolgreichen Absolventen seiner Fakultät: „Sie alle haben Großartiges geleistet. Sie haben großen intellektuellen Einsatz, viel Zeit, Fleiß und Disziplin aufgebracht, um dahin zu kommen, wo Sie heute stehen. Sie sollten sich immer daran erinnern, welche Herausforderungen Sie im Studium gemeistert haben und dies sollte Ihnen das Selbstbewusstsein geben, darauf zu vertrauen, dass Sie auch jede neue Hürde des Lebens erfolgreich bewältigen können – und daran weiter wachsen werden.“
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This week is IETF 102 in Montreal, Canada, and we’re bringing you daily blog posts highlighting the topics of interest to us in the ISOC Internet Technology Team. And today’s topics include IPv6, IoT and Trust technologies.

Whether it is childcare, credit or consumer goods: ratings, scores and the digital footprint produce new social classifications. This increasing quantification of the social is the reason for new forms of status gains or losses. In our lecture series “Making Sense of the Digital Society”, Marion Fourcade grasped these tendencies with the term “übercapital”. Steffen…

On 17 July 2018, the Internet Society and its locally based chapter, Internet Australia, joined 75 organizations in signing a letter urging Australia not to pursue legislation that could undermine the security of encrypted services and devices used by Australians.

Let’s face it – things are different now than when we were kids.
I grew up with technology. My weekends consisted of frantically switching out floppy disks while on 13-inch-green-screen missions to destroy cubism-esque dragons, orcs and whatever else I could with my wizard powers. It taught me critical reasoning, innovative thinking, and gave me the courage to try new things.

Nicole Wallace at the Chronicle of Philanthropy: “The chaos and confusion of conflict often separate family members fleeing for safety. The nonprofit Refunite uses advanced technology to help loved ones reconnect, sometimes across continents and after years of separation.

Alunos de diversos estados brasileiros participaram desta ediçãoNa última semana aconteceu a 3ª edição do Curso de Inverno da FGV Direito Rio. Foram 41 alunos de instituições de ensino de diversos estados do Brasil que tiveram a oportunidade de vivenciar o método participativo de aula, conhecer as linhas de pesquisas da instituição e debater com alguns dos principais professores da Escola.

Aula aberta I Processo Sancionador e Repressão à Corrupção19h00O Evento: A FGV DIREITO RIO apresenta a Aula aberta: Processo Sancionador e Repressão à Corrupção que integra o programa do LL.M em Direito: Societário e Mercado de Capitais. O curso objetiva preparar profissionais para lidar com questões atuais na área de Direito Societário e Mercado de Capitais em um cenário de globalização. Na ocasião será possível experimentar a metodologia aplicada e conhecer toda a infraestrutura disponível para os alunos.