Other News from Participating Centers

Webinar | Impacto da Covid-19 nos serviços públicos essenciais: regulação, equilíbrio econômico e financeiro e continuidade

Webinar | Impacto da Covid-19 nos serviços públicos essenciais: regulação, equilíbrio econômico e financeiro e continuidade17h00O Evento: DIREITO E A CRISE DO CORONAVÍRUS - A contribuição do sistema jurídico para o enfrentamento da pandemia e a superação de seus efeitos econômicos e sociais
A Fundação Getulio Vargas, por meio de suas escolas de direito FGV Direito SP e FGV Direito Rio, realiza uma série de webinars com o objetivo de debater as questões jurídicas relacionadas à crise da pandemia do coronavírus.

Member News: Internet Society Chapters Assist Communities with Telework, Remote Education

Keep working: In recent months, several Internet Society Chapters have focused on helping people to keep working during COVID-19 lockdowns. The Benin Chapter recently published a guide to remote work, with recommendations for videoconferencing apps, project management software, and file storage services.

Changes at INC, introducing ‘synthesis’, central INC email list

While we’re publishing a lot, here at the Institute of Network Cultures, trying to facilitate critical reflection on the corona crisis with diaries and essays from around the world, we’re also planning a restart of INC so that we’ll have space and resources for new urgent projects and research networks in this corona period/economic crisis.
As you may have noticed, we’ve just wrapped up our two-year publishing Making Public research project with Here and Now?

Sozioökonomische Faktoren beeinflussen Lebensqualität nach einer Herzoperation

Kardiovaskuläre Operationen sollen die Lebensqualität von Patienten verbessern, so dass diese nach dem Eingriff im besten Fall wieder ein normales Leben führen können. Doch auch nach einem medizinisch erfolgreichen Eingriff sind manche Patienten immer noch beeinträchtigt.

Getting Involved: Data science for good

An Interview with Johannes Müller by Lorenz Grünewald-Schukalla and Claudia Haas In 2018, an interdisciplinary expert commission comprising nine professors started working on the Third Engagement Report, titled The Future of Civic Society: Young Engagement in the Digital Age. The expert commission was chaired by Jeanette Hofmann, director of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for…

Docente integra equipo en terreno de la Dirección del Trabajo

Como parte de su labor profesional en dicha repartición pública, el profesor de la Escuela de Gobierno y Gestión Pública del Instituto de Asuntos Públicos (INAP), Felipe Malgüe, es parte del grupo desplegado para velar que las empresas cumplan con las medidas de higiene y seguridad para proteger a sus trabajadores en el contexto de la pandemia.“La primera inspección que hice con relación a esta pandemia, cuando estaban comenzando los primeros contagios en Chile, fue la que más me impactó”, relata Felipe Malgüe, profesor del INAP. Esto porque “las y los trab

Supreme Court’s order on Kashmir internet shutdown: Judicial abdication or judicial restraint?

This post first appeared on Times of India on May 12, 2020 The Supreme Court on Monday pronounced its order in the Foundation of Media Professionals v. Union Territory of J&K (for the restoration of 4G services in Jammu and Kashmir). The Court did not allow for the restoration of services – nor did it engage with […]

When The Music’s Over – Contact Tracing Apps: Solution or Snake Oil?

Few things in the COVID-verse have been as polarising as contact tracing apps. Gamechangers, or solutions in search of a problem? Centralized or decentralized? Complementary to human contact tracers, or substitutes?
In this session of When The Music’s we bring together:

Raising awareness of budget information in Uganda: Open Data Day 2020 report

On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

A Place Where We Can Be Together

Webinar | Relações de consumo: resolução consensual de conflitos em tempos de Covid-19

Webinar | Relações de consumo: resolução consensual de conflitos em tempos de Covid-1911h00O Evento: O Núcleo de Prática Jurídica da FGV Direito Rio, em parceria com a Comissão de Mediação de Conflitos (CMC) da OAB/RJ, realiza o webinar "Relações de consumo: resolução consensual de conflitos em tempos de Covid-19”.

FGV Direito promove debate sobre a violência contra crianças e adolescentes durante a quarentena

As Escolas de Direito da Fundação Getulio Vargas – FGV Direito SP e FGV Direito Rio – realizam, nesta quinta-feira, 21, um webinar para discutir a violência contra crianças e adolescentes durante o isolamento social provocado pela pandemia do coronavírus.

Africa’s Digital Economy: Opportunities and Obstacles during COVID-19

This blog post is part of a series where Portulans staff perform a more in-depth analysis of countries and regions covered by the Network Readiness Index.

Board Member Insights: How COVID-19 is a turning point for digitization, and why digitization will help us endure

This blog post is a contribution of Portulans Institute Board Member, Jacques Bughin. It is a commentary on how COVID-19 urges digitalization, impacting five core industrial processes.
 
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.  These combined fatalities only add to the disruption to our economies, as it may lead to a 10% fall in global economic welfare.

Fullstack Killswitch

Fullstack Killswitch. Towards a Integrated ‘Universal Escape Key’ for All Extended Reality Systems
Mathana Stender, May 2020

Social Media Users Think Politicians Should Pay Heavy Price for Spreading False COVID-19 Information

Ruth Okediji encourages the graduating class to cultivate the courage to try something new

The dilemma of political action in times of crisis and an first proposal for a solution

Politicians are in a dilemma due to the corona pandemic. It has to take effective measures without having all the information available and without knowing exactly what the consequences will be. At the same time, there is a lot of resentment from parts of the population against the decisions that have been taken.

Central African Peering Forum: A Defining Moment for Peering and Interconnection

The first-ever Central African Peering Forum comes at a defining moment for Internet peering and interconnection. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries have implemented measures to restrict people from moving from their homes, while only allowing essential movements and services.

But life cannot stop.

​NCID, NUS and NTU Studies Highlight the Role of Socio-Behavioural Factors in Managing COVID-19 

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