Other News from Participating Centers

Tribal World: Group Identity Is All

Amy Chua in Foreign Affairs: “Humans, like other primates, are tribal animals. We need to belong to groups, which is why we love clubs and teams. Once people connect with a group, their identities can become powerfully bound to it. They will seek to benefit members of their group even when they gain nothing personally. They will penalize outsiders, seemingly gratuitously. They will sacrifice, and even kill and die, for their group.

City-as-a-Service

Circle Economy: Today during the WeMakeThe.City festival, Circle Economy launched the ‘City-as-a-Service’ publication, which offers a first glimpse into the ‘circular city of the future’.

Can the open hardware revolution help to democratise technology?

A fast-growing open hardware movement is creating ingenious versions of all sorts of technologies, and freely sharing them through social media.

The Role of Behavioral Economics in Evidence-Based Policymaking

William J. Congdon and Maya Shankar in Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science on Evidence Based Policy Making: “Behavioral economics has come to play an important role in evidence-based policymaking.

Blockchain Ethical Design Framework

Report by Cara LaPointe and Lara Fishbane: “There are dramatic predictions about the potential of blockchain to “revolutionize” everything from worldwide financial markets and the distribution of humanitarian assistance to the very way that we outright recognize human identity for billions of people around the globe. Some dismiss these claims as excessive technology hype by citing flaws in the technology or robustness of incumbent solutions and infrastructure.

My City Forecast: Urban planning communication tool for citizen with national open data

Paper by Y. Hasegawa, Y. Sekimoto, T. Seto, Y. Fukushima et al in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems: “In urban management, the importance of citizen participation is being emphasized more than ever before.

Organization after Social Media

Open access book by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter :”Organized networks are an alternative to the social media logic of weak links and their secretive economy of data mining. They put an end to freestyle friends, seeking forms of empowerment beyond the brief moment of joyful networking. This speculative manual calls for nothing less than social technologies based on enduring time.

Can Smart Cities Be Equitable?

Homi Kharas and Jaana Remes at Project Syndicate: “Around the world, governments are making cities “smarter” by using data and digital technology to build more efficient and livable urban environments. This makes sense: with urban populations growing and infrastructure under strain, smart cities will be better positioned to manage rapid change.

What is Community Composting?

Past attendees of the National Cultivating Community Composting Forum & Workshop share their answers to the question, “What is Community Composting?”

Is Privacy Obsolete?

Pranesh Prakash was a panelist at this event organized by TERI in Bangalore on June 22, 2018.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/is-privacy-obsolete

Anushka finds support for her anti-litter tirade

She is well within her rights to shame the affluent man who threw plastic waste out of his swanky car, many say.
The article by Nina C. George was published in Deccan Herald on June 19, 2018. Swaraj Barooah was quoted.

Balancing Act: Innovation vs. Privacy in the Age of Data Portability

Thursday, July 12, 2018 @ 2 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201
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Watch Live On Monday, 25 June – DNSSEC Workshop at ICANN 62 in Panama

With the DNSSEC Root Key Rollover coming up on October 11, how prepared are we as an industry? What kind of data can we collect in preparation? What is the cost benefit (or not) of implementing DANE? What can we learn from an existing rollover of a cryptographic algorithm?

We Need to Save Ignorance From AI

Christina Leuker and Wouter van den Bos in Nautilus:  “After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East German citizens were offered the chance to read the files kept on them by the Stasi, the much-feared Communist-era secret police service. To date, it is estimated that only 10 percent have taken the opportunity.

Leveling Up Women One Edit at a Time

Only 1 in 10 Wikipedia editors is a woman. Unfortunately, the underrepresentation of female perspectives is quite common within the tech world. In order to help achieve gender equality in content creation and dissemination, Wikipedia Editathons are held as a way of bridging the gap and encourage female editors to increase the coverage of women’s topics.

Announcing NDSS 2019 & the Call for Papers

It may seem far away, but it’s time to begin planning for the 26th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. NDSS 2019 will once again be held in sunny San Diego at the lovely Catamaran Spa and Resort from 24-27 February 2019.

Kristina Irion briefs European Parliament on the free flow of non-personal data

Recasting the learned periodical in open access: from kingmaker to community content as king

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Prof. Jean-Claude Guédon (Université de Montréal)
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Deutsche Krebsgesellschaft vergibt Gütesiegel an die Düsseldorfer Kinderonkologie

Durchgeführt wurde diese Prüfung durch OnkoZert. Dies ist ein unabhängiges Institut, das im Auftrag der Deutschen Krebsgesellschaft die ganzheitliche Versorgung krebskranker Patienten in einem ausgewiesenen Netzwerk von Spezialisten unterschiedlicher medizinischer und pflegerischer Fachrichtungen überprüft. Es bewertet die Expertise anhand von einer entsprechenden Zahl von Behandlungsfällen, aber auch die interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit zwischen verschiedenen Fachdisziplinen sowie ärztlichen und nichtärztlichen Berufen.

Estudiantes crean prototipo de Impresora 3D de Concreto

Beauchef Proyecta es una iniciativa del proyecto Ingeniería y Ciencias 2030 de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, el cual financió a los estudiantes que desarrollaron este proyecto que abre oportunidades para nuevas investigaciones en torno a distintas formas de construcción.Como parte de la primera versión del Programa de Memorias Multidisciplinarias de Beauchef Proyecta, un grupo de estudiantes de las especialidades de Ingeniería Mecánica, Ingeniería Civil e Ingeniería Civil en Computación fueron seleccionados para desarrollar un proyecto para su trabajo de tí