Solon Ardittis at the Migration Data Portal: “According to a recent report published by CB Insights, there are today at least 36 major industries that are likely to benefit from the use of Blockchain technology, ranging from voting procedures, critical infrastructure security, education and healthcare, to car leasing, forecasting, real estate, energy manageme
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In 2017, the Internet Society unveiled the 2017 Global Internet Report: Paths to Our Digital Future. The interactive report identifies the drivers affecting tomorrow’s Internet and their impact on Media & Society, Digital Divides, and Personal Rights & Freedoms.
The website has since been taken down, but the identity of its creators may not be very easy to find.
The blog post by Kaveesha Kohli and Talha Ashraf was published in The Print on February 13, 2018.
„Diese Entscheidung bestätigt unsere Sichtweise und den eingeschlagenen Entlastungskurs für die Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter uneingeschränkt und sorgt für Klarheit und Transparenz“, so Ekkehard Zimmer, Kaufmännischer Direktor und stellvertretender Vorstandsvorsitzender des UKD. Das Gericht schreibt in seinem Beschluss wörtlich, dass mit dem neuen Schichtsystem, Zitat: „[…] die Patientenversorgung und damit die dem Universitätsklinikum obliegende öffentliche Aufgabe besser erfüllt werden kann.“ (Aktenzeichen: 40 L 74/18-PVL).Prof. Dr.
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Stefaan G. Verhulst at Disrupt & Innovate: “The need for innovation is clear: The twenty-first century is shaping up to be one of the most challenging in recent history. From climate change to income inequality to geopolitical upheaval and terrorism: the difficulties confronting International Civil Society Organisations (ICSOs) are unprecedented not only in their variety but also in their complexity. At the same time, today’s practices and tools used by ICSOs seem stale and outdated.
Last week the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany (OKFDE) and AlgorithmWatch launched the project OpenSCHUFA. Inspired by OKF Finland and the „mydata“ project, OpenSCHUFA is the first„mydata“ project by OKFDE. Over the last 7 days, the campaign generated Germany-wide media attention, and already over 8.000 individual Schufa data request (30.000 personal data requests in total).
Proteine sind zentrale Bausteine jedes lebenden Organismus, sie dienen sowohl als Strukturmaterial als auch als Botenstoffe im Körper. Diese Proteine setzen sich ihrerseits aus einzelnen Aminosäurebausteinen zusammen. Der Bauplan, nach dem der Körper sie herstellt, ist im genetischen Code hinterlegt.
In times of fake news and post-truth politics, the internet acts as catalyst, multiplying the impact of falsities and further blurring the boundary between fact and fiction. In this longform Davide Banis asked himself how to make sense of the relationship between any representational media and reality. And…what is ‘fictiocracy’?
We proudly present our latest longform Fictiocracy: Media and Politics in the Age of Storytelling by Davide Banis
CMPF Scientific Coordinator, Elda Brogi and Project Assistant, Luc Steinberg have penned an op-ed on the net neutrality debate in the EU and US for the EUI Times. Following the Federal Communication Commission’s decision to repeal net neutality in the US in December 2017, the article explores the potential implications for the open web in the US and EU.
Read the full post here.
The public sphere metaphor was always contested and this continues in the digital realm. While “old” debates on access, inequality and power continue, the so-called platform society has taken concerns... MORE
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In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]
Ramy Ghorayeb: “When it comes to civic tech, there is a clear opposition between the fans, who view the young sector as a key foundation that will change democracy for good, and the haters, who think it is simply a gadget that doesn’t have any weight on political decisions considering its position towards the existing powers/counter-powers.
Michael Carolan at GeoForum: “The paper takes a critical look at how food retail firms use big data, looking specifically at how these techniques and technologies govern our ability to imagine food worlds.
Paper by Sofia C. Olhede and Patrick J. Wolfe in Statistics & Probability Letters: “The Danish physicist Niels Bohr is said to have remarked: “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future”. Predicting the future of statistics in the era of big data is not so very different from prediction about anything else.
Dans le cadre du cycle de conférences Jeunes chercheurs, la Chaire LexUM en information juridique accueille Émilie Mouchard qui présentera une conférence qui s’intitule « Le privacywashing ».
Présentation de la conférence :