Introduction to Special Issue on Urban Modeling and Simulation by Shade T. Shutters: “Increased use of sensors and social data collection methods have provided cites with unprecedented amounts of data. Yet, data alone is no guarantee that cities will make smarter decisions and many of what we call smart cities would be more accurately described as data-driven cities.
Book edited by Jonas Tallberg, Karin Backstrand, and Jan Aart Scholte: “Legitimacy is central for the capacity of global governance institutions to address problems such as climate change, trade protectionism, and human rights abuses. However, despite legitimacy’s importance for global governance, its workings remain poorly understood.
Mark Treskon, Sino Esthappan, Cameron Okeke and Carla Vasquez-Noriega at the Urban Institute: “This report synthesizes findings from four cases where stakeholders are using creative placemaking to improve community safety.
Christina Pena at the National Skills Coalition: “Administrative data on employment and earnings, commonly referred to as wage data or wage records, can be used to assess the labor market outcomes of workforce, education, and other programs, providing policymakers, administrators, researchers, and the public with valuable information. However, there is no single readily accessible federal source of wage data which covers all workers.
There are many new platforms trying to make blockchains more scalable, or creating alternatives to the architecture of blockchain to fulfill on the aspirations of blockchain advocates, but that current blockchains fail to deliver on.
Hashgraph has been getting some press and many are excited about the speeds they promise and some of the videos and demonstrations they’ve shared. It is one of the closest innovations to Holochain that I’ve seen come out by people starting from a blockchain mindset. However, from my completely biased perspective, there are still a few gaps.
Birgit Strodel studierte Chemie in Düsseldorf und Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was durch ein Stipendium des DAAD ermöglicht wurde. Nach dem Diplom an der HHU (2000) wurde sie 2005 über eine Arbeit zur Quantendynamik in der kondensierten Phase am Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main promoviert. Daran schloss sich eine Zeit als Post-Doc am Chemie-Department der Universität Cambridge in Großbritannien an. Seitdem forscht sie auf dem Gebiet der Proteinaggregation, die sie mittels Computersimulationen untersucht.
Leslie K. John at Harvard Business Review: “…People are bad at making decisions about their private data. They misunderstand both costs and benefits. Moreover, natural human biases interfere with their judgment. And whether by design or accident, major platform companies and data aggregators have structured their products and services to exploit those biases, often in subtle ways.
Micah Lee at The Intercept: “The United Nations accidentally published passwords, internal documents, and technical details about websites when it misconfigured popular project management service Trello, issue tracking app Jira, and office suite Google Docs.
Excelencia en el campo de trabajo, contribución a la comunidad, liderazgo y creatividad.
Impulsado por iniciativa estudiantil y financiado por el Premio Azul, recientemente comenzó a funcionar este espacio que es más que una sala de lactancia: es un lugar destinado a acoger y prestar servicios básicos a estudiantes, funcionarias y académicas, quienes podrán alimentar, mudar, cuidar y jugar con sus hijas e hijos.
Luego de que fuese sobreseído, este nuevo requerimiento a la investigación encabezada por el ministro en visita Mario Carroza apunta a establecer la participación de organismos de inteligencia en eventuales apremios ilegítimos, sucedidos aquella recordada jornada del 8 de febrero de 1985, cuando 173 estudiantes de la U.
La nueva oficina se enmarca en la Política Institucional de Prevención del Acoso Sexual, como parte del compromiso de la U.
Maquillaje, luces, trabajo en equipo y mucho más son parte de "Cuéntame la danza II. La obra", espectáculo que se presenta este fin de semana y que lleva a sumergirse en el día a día de una compañía profesional y a conocer sus secretos tras bambalinas.
24.09.2018 - 19:00 - 22:00 Säälchen - Holzmarkt Holzmarktstraße 25 Berlin
The annual meetings of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) have been consolidated as the main space for discussion and exchange of ideas among the stakeholders of the Internet community on an equal footing. However, there are diverse activities which take place throughout the year that require the participation of all the actors of the community.
The Intersessional Activities
“Cleansing” cyberspace: Zhuang Rongwen, recently appointed as director of the Cyberspace Administration of China, has vowed to promote “positive energy” on the Internet while suppressing “negative elements,” including “wrong ideological trends” that attack the Communist Party there, reports the South China Morning Post. Zhuang called on all Internet users to join party members to fight a people’s war to rehabilitate the “cyber ecology.”
The latest edition of the International Open Data Conference (IODC) is just around the bend. We’ll be discussing open data during the entire week in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Through a series of pre-events, including symposiums, discussion panels and workshops as well as the main conference, we will discuss with open data practitioners, advocates, and researchers about the future of open data.
A “digital divide” separates the countries of the Global North and South: they are unequal in terms of access to and the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) such as computers, mobile phones, and the internet. It is widely believed that bridging this divide will positively affect people in under-connected world regions: ICT are assumed to increase economic productivity and prosperity and to have a democratizing effect.The TATuP thematic issue 2/2019 offers a platform to advance a critical assessment from an interdisciplinary perspective.