Paper by Noveck, Beth Simone; Koga, Kaitlin; Aceves Garcia, Rafael; Deleanu, Hannah; Cantú-Pedraza, Dinorah: “Corruption presents a fundamental threat to the stability and prosperity of Mexico and combating it demands approaches that are both principled and practical. In 2017, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved project ME-T1351 to support Mexico in its fight against corruption using Open Innovation.

The GovLab at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering is pleased to announce the launch of its Data Stewards website — a new portal for connecting organizations across sectors that seek to promote responsible data leadership that can address the challenges of the 21st century — developed with generous support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

-- Updated version of online WILMap provides improved functionality in tracking global online liability laws --
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„Durch die Teilnahme an der Qualitätsinitiative können wir unsere Qualität in der Patientenversorgung kontinuierlich weiter ausbauen“, ist Prof. Dr. Ralf Wasmuth überzeugt: „Mit der gemeinsamen Veröffentlichung leisten die teilnehmenden Kliniken einen wichtigen Beitrag für mehr Transparenz auf diesem Gebiet. Gleichzeitig verändert der Umgang mit den Qualitätsdaten auch die Kultur in den Kliniken und ist eine große Chance, die Versorgung immer weiter zu verbessern.“ Auch in diesem Jahr bestätigt die Auswertung erneut die sehr gute Behandlungsqualität am UKD.

This week the Internet Society is at RightsCon, one of the world’s leading conferences on human rights in the digital age. The event brings together business leaders, policy makers, government representatives, technologists, and human rights defenders from around the world.

Randall Minas in Healthcare Informatics: “…Healthcare is yet another area where blockchain can make a substantial impact. Blockchain technology could be used to enable the WHO and CDC to better monitor disease outbreaks over time by creating distributed “ledgers” that are both secure and updated hundreds of times per day. Issued in near real-time, these updates would alert healthcare professionals to spikes in local cases almost immediately.

Corporate Insights: “Nearly half of all Americans play video games, yet only a third have more than a thousand dollars saved for an emergency.

One of the pragmatic solutions supported by the P2P Foundation is the CopyFair license, which combines free knowledge sharing, with a demand for reciprocity for the commons’ base, in case of commercialization. Coopify is an example of such a license, developed by the Coop des Communs in France, and association which works on commons-cooperative convergence and wants to use such a license for itself and promote it within the solidarity economy networks in France.

It might come as a surprise – but something innovative is happening in Hull.
Hull is one of those cities, like Swindon and Slough, that’s long been the butt of jokes – like the one about the guy that typed ‘Hell’ instead of ‘Hull’ into his Sat-Nav, but still got there – it’s not that funny, or even really justified.

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United States

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Date published: May 16, 2018Wired"“I’m not saying that Google doesn’t act out of self-interest,” says Andrew McLaughlin, who helped start Google’s public policy operation in Washington. “But that self-interest was the sense that the long-term future of the internet is better off if it’s free and open.”"

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United States

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United States

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Dieter Zinnbauer at OGP: “Many activities related to opening government have a demonstrated, empirical potential to create business value, foster broader economic opportunities, and promote a business climate for growth and dynamism. What’s more, opening government plays a highly relevant, if not essential, role for economic stewardship and for putting economies on sustainable, inclusive trajectories of good growth.

How do the world’s most powerful internet, mobile, and telecommunications companies treat their users’ freedom of expression and privacy? On 2 May 2018, the Ranking Digital Rights 2018 Corporate Accountability Index European launch event was held at Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). Kirsten Gollatz, PhD candidate at University of Zurich and Project Manager…

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featuring Renee DiResta

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This talk examines the ways that these same manipulative tactics are being deployed on Amazon, which is now the dominant product search engine and a battlefield for economically and ideologically motivated actors.

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Berkman Klein Luncheon Series

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May
15
2018
12:00pm

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May
15
2018
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Top Internet, mobile, and telecom companies across the globe still have many steps they could take to better protect their users’ freedom of expression and privacy, a new report says.
The 2018 Corporate Accountability Index, released recently by Ranking Digital Rights, gave Google a top score of 63 among 22 companies rated for protecting freedom of expression and privacy. But with a perfect score being 100, all the companies rated fell far short, with most receiving failing grades, the group said.

Prof. Dr. Nicola Preuß, Dekanin der Juristischen Fakultät, bedankte sich bei ihrer Begrüßung für die großzügige und kontinuierliche Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses der Juristischen Fakultät. Anschließend überreichte Stifter Thomas Dohme, Geschäftsführer der Goethe und Schweitzer GmbH / Schweitzer Fachinformationen die Auszeichnung für die herausragenden wissenschaftlichen Leistungen im Heinrich-Heine-Saal der Universität.