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How To Thrive In the Next Economy: Preface to the Chinese edition

A cultural disconnection between the man-made world and the biosphere lies behind the grave challenges we face today. We either don’t think about rivers, soils, and biodiversity at all – or we treat them as resources whose only purpose is to feed the economy. This ‘metabolic rift’ – between the living world, and the economic one – leaves us starved of meaning and purpose. We have to heal this damaging gap.

Banking on artificial intelligence: In hiring drive, Bots are calling the shots now

Algorithms analyse expressions, tone to check for traits such as confidence, anger in video interviews.
The article by Anjali Venugopalan was published in Economic Times on June 4, 2019, Sunil Abraham was quoted. Also mirrored on ET Tech.com.

Plugging into India’s broadband  revolution

After many false starts, the plan to wire India’s digital future may finally take off with Jio GigaFiber’s entry.
The article by Navadha Pandey was published by Livemint on June 4, 2019. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

Facebook’s Libra: A bit too ambitious?

Power desperately finds ways to propagate at the slightest hint of losing lustre, which the social network is beginning to experience at the moment.
The article by Rajmohan Sudhakar was published in the Deccan Herald on June 30, 2019. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

The Week in Internet News: Small Routing Error Has Big Consequences

Bad route: A small routing error led to Internet outages in the Northeastern United States on June 24, Inc.com reports. Small network services provider DQE Communications shared inaccurate routing information with Verizon, which then passed it along to the wider network.

​NTU Singapore’s centre designated as World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre to promote digital health and education

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Announcing an Executive Director for the Internet Society Foundation

Last year we established the Internet Society Foundation, with a plan to make clearer the Internet Society’s grant-making activities, and distinguish them from Internet Society programmes. We announced that we would develop the Foundation over the course of the following year.

2. Juli: Kann ich durch Essen krank werden?

In Deutschland sind fast 2 Mio. Kinder und Jugendliche übergewichtig oder sogar fettleibig. Weltweit sind im Vorschulalter schon mehr als 43 Mio. Kinder davon betroffen. Für die Entstehung von Übergewicht bei Kindern und Jugendlichen spielen schon sehr frühe Faktoren im Leben eine wichtige Rolle, z.B. in der Schwangerschaft und in den ersten Lebensjahren. Welche Ursachen bei Kindern zu Übergewichtigkeit führen, mit welchen Folgen und wie man seine Familie gemeinsam gesund ernähren kann, zeigt Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Regina Ensenauer in ihrem Vortrag.

HHU-Chemie lädt zum Experimentieren ein

Interessierte aus Düsseldorf und Umgebung allen Alters sind eingeladen, Chemie hautnah zu erleben und sich über die faszinierende Welt der Wissenschaft zu informieren. Das Programm reicht von Experimenten zum Anschauen über Vorträge bis hin zu Mitmachaktionen auch für kleine zukünftige Wissenschaftler.
Einige Highlights aus dem Programm:

[June 24-July 1] CCG’s Week in Review: Curated News in Information Law and Policy

With the G20 Summit in Osaka easing trade tensions between the US and China, India has seen a week of developing policy positions on data localisation, tech startups and the fate of telecom providers  — presenting this week’s most important developments in law and tech. Aadhaar  [June 24] New Aadhaar regulations by Government to bring […]

“To robots you aren't a burden”

You can read the interview here.

Autonomy in autonomous systems?

You can find more information here.

Mario Hamuy lanzó nuevo libro sobre los eclipses

El Premio Nacional de Ciencias Exactas 2015 y académico del Departamento de Astronomía de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM), continúa su trabajo de divulgación científica, esta vez con la publicación de "El Sol negro", su más reciente libro en donde detalla, desde una perspectiva histórica y científica, el rol de los eclipses en la investigación astronómica y en las sociedades, además de explicar las condiciones que posibilitan este fenómeno que presenciaremos el próximo 2 de julio, y luego, el 14 de diciembre del 2020.

Plataforma "UAbierta" abrió inscripciones para dos cursos gratuitos

Luego del éxito del curso "Introducción a las teorías feministas" que congregó a más de 45.000 participantes, nuestro plantel a través de esta plataforma impartirá nuevamente los programas "Vulnerabilidades ante desastres socionaturales" y "Paisaje Sonoro; escucha, experiencia y cotidianidad".

Académica de la Universidad de Chile es elegida mejor científica joven

La Academia Chilena de Ciencias otorgó recientemente el Premio Excelencia Académica Adelina Gutiérrez para Investigadoras Jóvenes a Valentina Parra, investigadora asociada del Centro Avanzado de Enfermedades Crónicas (ACCDiS) y académica de la Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas.

Experto en demencias conoció el trabajo de Unidad de Memoria

En el marco de su visita a nuestro país para la presentación del Policy Paper "Prevención y abordaje integral de las demencias.

Instalaciones de Vicuña Mackenna 20 registran avance de 10 por ciento

El Rector Ennio Vivaldi, junto al vicerrector de Asuntos Económicos y Gestión Institucional, Daniel Hojman, y los directores del Centro de Extensión Artística y Cultural, del Institutos de Asuntos Públicos y el Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, Diego Matte, Hugo Frühling y Dorotea López -respectivamente-, visitaron el proyecto que se construye en el sector de Plaza Italia y que consolidará un nuevo espacio de la Casa de Bello para las artes, las políticas públicas, la academia y la docencia.Una sala de concierto con capacidad para mil personas, salas de ensayo,

Summer update of Open Knowledge Nepal

The last couple of months have been quite busy for the team of Open Knowledge Nepal with lots of projects, workshops and events. In this blog, we try to summarize all the activities which were conducted in the past couple of months as part of our regular updates.
Empowering women

Ecofeminism to Escape Collapse

Maria Mediavilla: Feminism has gained a very strong following in Spain in recent years, as the massive feminist demonstrations of March 8th of 2018 and 2019 showed, and I would dare to say that much of its success is due to the popularity of the ecofeminist message and the slogan “put life at the center” [1].

​NTU Singapore tops QS world young universities rankings for the sixth consecutive year

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