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We are reposting this anonymous open letter meant to address Dutch cultural organisations, institutions of education and research, and government bodies. Its goal is to raise concerns regarding freelance and remote work during the COVID-19 emergency. Feel free to circulate, appropriate and adapt this text. Here’s the source: https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/N+YV5BXQdELU0Z2RZLIuwLkH3My2GNNk9SsdwJ51Gd0/

This blog is the fourth in a series done by the Frictionless Data Fellows, discussing how they created Frictionless Data Packages with their research data. Learn more about the Fellows Programme at fellows.frictionlessdata.io.
By Lily Zhao
Introduction

A FGV Direito Rio vem comunicar aos seus alunos(as), professores(as), colaboradores(as) e parceiros(as) que, em face da potencial difusão do vírus COVID-19 na cidade do Rio de Janeiro e a fim de reduzir os riscos de transmissão do vírus em nossa comunidade, converterá, temporariamente, as atividades presenciais em atividades à distância. 

BKC faculty associate Zeynep Tufekci on why being prepared for the global spread of coronavirus is “one of the most pro-social, altruistic things you can do in response to potential disruptions of this kind.”

“We should prepare, not because we may feel personally at risk, but so that we can help lessen the risk for everyone. We should prepare not because we are facing a doomsday scenario out of our control, but because we can alter every aspect of this risk we face as a society.”

Wegen des Corona-Virusses bleibt die Bibliothek des ITM auf weitere Zeit geschlossen. Der allgemeine Geschäftsbetrieb läuft weiter. Studierende sollten für das Sommersemester 2020 aufmerksam unsere Rubrik Lehre auf der Homepage lesen. Die Unterlagen für die Vorlesung Gesetzliche Schuldverhältnisse und das Unirep stehen dort zum freien Download bereit.

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Vorlesungszeiten Einvernehmlich hat man sich für die Verschiebung des Beginns der Vorlesungszeiten für das kommende Sommersemester auf den 20. April ausgesprochen. Die Entscheidung fiel mit Blick auf Schutzmaßnahmen zur Eindämmung der weiteren Verbreitung des Virus SARS-CoV-2.

A FGV Direito Rio vem comunicar aos seus alunos, professores, colaboradores e parceiros, que criou um Comitê de Gestão de Crise para monitoramento constante dos acontecimentos referentes ao COVID-19. Para tanto, já está disponível, na sala nº 1320 - 13º andar, atendimento específico para as dúvidas e questões relacionadas ao tema. Da mesma forma, o telefone (21) 3799-5321 pode ser utilizado como canal de comunicação, bem como o e-mail: direitorio.covid19@fgv.br.

We Demand Ministry of Telecommunications Open the Fixed and Mobile Internet Capacity and Reduce Prices During the COVID-19 Crisis. (Sign the petition here). In a decision to encourage citizens, including students, to stay home during Coronavirus crisis, the Lebanese government announced on Thursday, March 12, that Ogero, the national internet[...]

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As the Open Knowledge Foundation turned 15 years old, we took the time to look at the changing landscape of challenges faced by society. 

A poco más de dos meses de que se reportaran en China los primeros casos de un nuevo tipo de coronavirus -hoy identificado como el virus SARS-CoV-2, que puede causar la enfermedad COVID-19-, el Ministerio de Salud confirmó la existencia de los primeros tres casos en Chile. El académico de la Facultad de Medicina, Fernando Valiente, se refirió a la expansión de este virus, sus características y posible trayectoria.

Estudiar los agentes virales de la segunda especie de pingüinos más importante de nuestro país es el objetivo de las estudiantes Francisca González y María Ignacia López, quienes se trasladarán a Tierra del Fuego durante casi un mes para desarrollar esta labor.

42 estudiantes de postgrado, provenientes de universidades nacionales y extranjeras, fueron parte de este espacio formativo en el que conocieron investigaciones relacionadas con el impacto de los gases de efecto invernadero en distintos ecosistemas, la gestión y contaminación de las aguas, y los potenciales cambios de los patrones vegetacionales en el sur del país.

El acuerdo -que incluye movilidad, enseñanza conjunta e investigación-, fue firmado por el Rector Ennio Vivaldi, y Massimo Carpineli, máxima autoridad del plantel público italiano.Un acuerdo de cuatro puntos firmaron las Universidad de Chile y de Sassari, representadas por los rectores Ennio Vivaldi y Massimo Carpineli, máxima autoridad del plantel italiano. El convenio estará vigente por 5 años y se renovará, estando sujeto a ampliarse a nuevas áreas de colaboración.

BKC fellow Christo Wilson explains that while the convenience of skipping the checkout line comes at the expense of privacy, so does shopping through Amazon at all.

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In a wide-ranging conversation with Nick Gillespie, Taylor Lorenz talks about how TikTok, the ultra-short video platform out of China, enhances self-expression, why government regulation of online speech is always ultimately doomed to fail, and how the future depends on all of us developing media literacy in a hurry.

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In Zeiten, in denen politische Debatten an Schärfe gewonnen haben und Populismus zunehmend Raum in der medialen Wahrnehmung einnimmt, sind Studierende der Heinrich-Heine-Universität (HHU) in dem Lehrforschungsprojekt „Populistische Argumentation: ein hölzernes Eisen? Philosophische und politikwissenschaftliche Perspektiven“ unter anderem der Frage nachgegangen, woran populistische Argumentation zu erkennen ist und wie und ob populistische Argumentation eine Gesellschaft verändert. Das Projekt widmet sich dem Populismus aus argumentationstheoretischer Perspektive.

These networks are simpler and less complete than modern metabolism, but they can grow, they generate the building blocks of protein and RNA, and they trace to the common ancestor of all life.
An international team of researchers in Germany, New Zealand and the U.S.A. has investigated metabolic networks of primitive microbes and identified autocatalytic sets (interconnected collections of self-reinforcing reactions) that are older than genes.  

Em virtude da declaração de Pandemia pela Organização Mundial de Saúde, devido ao Coronavirus (Covid-19), a FGV Direito Rio vem comunicar aos seus alunos, professores, colaboradores e parceiros, que a FGV está monitorando constantemente a situação.
O Gabinete de Crise da Fundação está atento às atualizações sobre a Pandemia e reforça as recomendações dos cuidados:
• Lavar frequentemente as mãos com água e sabonete ou usar álcool em gel.