William Carbone joins UMB DSL Advisory Board
We are thrilled to welcome William Carbone as a new member of our International Advisory Board.
WikibaseNYC conference explores the frontier of linked open data infrastructure
When you think about the work of art historians or genetics researchers, installing database software is not the first thing that comes to mind. Yet, from 19 to 21 September, Wikimedians, art curators, and scientists gathered at the New Museum in New York City’s Lower East Side for a three-day workshop to talk about an emerging technology designed to make storing and structuring data free and accessible.
Routing, and Water, Are All about Trust: Introducing “Routing Security for Policymakers”
Introducing the new Internet Society white paper, “Routing Security for Policymakers“
The global routing system is a lot like a water system in a city. It’s vitally important to the Internet and we tend to overlook it until something goes wrong.
GovLab Senior Fellow Announced as Secretary of Innovation and Participation for Municipality of San Pedro Garza García, Mexico
Cantú-Pedraza (second row, far right) poses with her fellow Cabinet members and Mayor-elect Hon. Miguel B. Treviño.
Deep Fakes: A Looming Challenge for Privacy, Democracy, and National Security
Paper by Robert Chesney and Danielle Keats Citron: “Harmful lies are nothing new. But the ability to distort reality has taken an exponential leap forward with “deep fake” technology. This capability makes it possible to create audio and video of real people saying and doing things they never said or did. Machine learning techniques are escalating the technology’s sophistication, making deep fakes ever more realistic and increasingly resistant to detection.
Elvis maps your tenders
Ever heard of public procurement? Public tenders? Public spending? It is what your government does with your hard earned taxes: hires companies to do things. In return for your taxes, companies build roads, buildings, deliver cozy office chairs for the ministries, or take care of catering for public schools.
Dr. Uta Müller and Laura Schelenz speak about ethics and digitalization at the Steinbeis Networking Event
29. 11. 2018 Stuttgart Hohenheimhttp://www.steinbeis.de/mediwa Digitalisation is fundamentally changing how we work. Networking and synergies are becoming ever more important due to the convergence of new and emerging technologies. In order to take advantage of this potential and shape cooperation at all levels and channels, communication plays a central role.
New Internet Draft: Considerations on Internet Consolidation and the Internet Architecture
Are there assumptions about the Internet architecture that no longer hold in a world where larger, more centralized entities provide big parts of the Internet service? If the world changes, the Internet and its technology/architecture may have to match those changes. It appears that level[ing] the playing field for new entrants or small players brings potential benefits. Are there technical solutions that are missing today?
ITM als Marke
Im Oktober 2018 ist die Bezeichnung „ITM“ von Professor Dr. Thomas Hoeren als Marke beim Deutschen Patent- und Markenamt angemeldet worden. Der Schutz der Marke erstreckt sich auf Seminarveranstaltungen, wissenschaftliche Gutachten u.a. Die Marke ist insofern eine wichtige Ergänzung für das Portfolio des Instituts.
Essay of the Day: Democratic legitimacy and new commons: examples from English protected areas
The following paper was authored by Margherita Pieraccini and originally published on the International Journal of the Commons.
Abstract
What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work
Decentralization is the new disruption—the thing everything worth its salt (and a huge ICO) is supposed to be doing. Meanwhile, Internet progenitors like Vint Cerf, Brewster Kahle, and Tim Berners-Lee are trying to re-decentralize the Web.
HHU - Nostalgia - Außenminister a.D. Joschka Fischer im Sommersemester 2010 als Heinrich-Heine-Gastprofessor
Die Bildergalerie "HHU-Nostalgia" stellt interessante Archiv-Motive vor und wird kontinuierlich ausgebaut und ergänzt: Viel Spaß!
Hier geht es zur kompletten Galerie (Übersichtsseite).
Haben Sie vielleicht auch noch ein interessantes "historisches" Foto der HHU? Die HHU-Bildredaktion freut sich über jede Einsendung: Dieter Joswig, Tel. +49 211 81-14861E-Mail senden
Introducing the online guide to the World Development Indicators
World Bank: “The World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank’s premier compilation of international statistics on global development. Drawing from officially recognized sources and including national, regional, and global estimates, the WDI provides access to almost 1,600 indicators for 217 economies, with some time series extending back more than 50 years.
„Zukunft des Schulfaches Geschichte“
Aktuelle gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen machen deutlich, wie wichtig historisches Wissen für das Geschichtsbewusstsein einer Gesellschaft ist. Wenn die historische Wissensvermittlung und der kritische Umgang mit vermeintlichen Fakten nicht bereits in der Schule gelehrt werden, dann füllen ggf. andere die entstehenden Leerstellen der Weltdeutung mit populistischen Antworten. Doch kann der Geschichtsunterricht diese Aufgabe noch leisten? Welcher Stellenwert kommt ihm in den Lehrplänen einzelner Bundesländer noch zu?
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