Péricles Gonçalves foi orientado pelo prof. Shauhin TaleshPéricles Gonçalves, aluno do Mestrado em Direito da Regulação da FGV Direito Rio, atuou como pesquisador visitante na Universidade da Califórnia – Irvine (EUA). Durante o período, o discente pôde realizar pesquisas para a dissertação final do curso, tendo acesso irrestrito à biblioteca da Universidade e às bases de dados.
Fake news, hate speech and (foreign?) disinformation operations are not forgotten, nor are the devastating effects of the Cambridge Analytica and other IT-supported targeting practices on elections or referenda. Against the backdrop of computational propaganda, digital voter manipulation and nefarious disinformation online, we might be worrying about upcoming elections and the future of democracy.
With all the excitement about the role of technology in contributing to social change and improved development outcomes across Africa, it is easy to forget that only 11% of the world’s Internet subscribers are Africans, while only 35.2% of Africans use the Internet. An effective science and innovation system in any country, and globally, I believe, depends on strong basic research and higher education infrastructure.
On December 6th 2018, the Internet Society Zimbabwe Chapter held an Internet of Things (IoT) meetup supported by the Beyond the Net Small Grants, a programme intented to assist the Internet Society Chapters with financial support to organize initiatives that contribute to the development of their communities.
New ways to collaborate on code
Oscoin: Principles & Motivation
When we started Oscoin, our motivation was guided by the observation that crypto-currencies could enable a new form of community-owned and operated network. The invention of digital scarcity1 made it possible to economically incentivize and remunerate network participants for their service in a simple,transparent way, without mediation by a third-party.
Die Tagung spannt einen Bogen von Utopieentwürfen und Idealstaatskonzeptionen, die seit jeher europäisches Denken prägen, bis hin zu europäischen Denkfiguren, Idealen und Visionen im Allgemeinen. Im Rahmen von elf Beiträgen präsentieren vor allem Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und –wissenschaftler der Philosophischen Fakultät ihre Forschungsergebnisse in einem interdisziplinären Austausch.
Gurpreet Bola: Progressives reference the ‘new economy’ in order to describe a system that is based on social and environmental justice. Yet type these words into any search engine and you’ll find that we don’t own it, neoliberals do. The ‘new economy’ they are talking about refers to the emerging and ever-strengthening data economy. This economy is built on a technology that is rooted in the same principles and institutions as neoliberal capitalism. As such, we have some indication of what is in store, particularly around work, wages, and racial injustice.
La igualdad de género es una prioridad y parte de la misión institucional de la Universidad de Chile.
El pasado 28 de diciembre en su ya tradicional celebración del Día del Escritor, se entregó a la vicerrectora de Extensión y Comunicaciones de la U.
People visited Wikipedia over 190 billion times in 2018 alone, many motivated by the encyclopedia’s wealth of in-depth articles about topics you didn’t know enough about.
Today’s guest author is María Julia Morales González, the “Flor de Ceibo Conecta2” project manager and a professor at the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Space of the University of the Republic Uruguay.
Not this again: India’s government wants websites and social media platforms to remove content regulators determine as “unlawful” within 24 hours and to create automated tools to identify this material, BuzzFeed reports. The government also wants the tech companies to trace the source of the content, requiring platforms like WhatsApp to break encryption.
Vier von fünf Menschen in Deutschland sind mindestens einmal in ihrem Leben auf eine Blutspende oder Produkte, die aus einer Blutspende gewonnen werden, angewiesen. Viele Operationen und Therapien könnten nicht durchgeführt werden, wenn zu wenige Blutkonserven verfügbar sind.Rund 60.000 Blutpräparate werden am größten Düsseldorfer Krankenhaus (UKD) jährlich benötigt.„Blutspender retten im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes Leben. Wir benötigen das Blut natürlich für die Versorgung von Unfallopfern und Patienten, die sich schwersten Operationen unterziehen müssen.
Enspiral is a community of impact driven entrepreneurs experimenting at the edges of ownership, governance, decision making, resource sharing and organisational design.
After nearly a decade of testing and growing ideas, this is their first collectively written book. Sharing vision, reflections and insights, this practical resource will help you create radically collaborative, innovative and caring workplaces where people thrive.
Better Work Together includes:
What are the commons and what is their political, social and economic relevance?
Der ausgewiesene Comic-Kenner hat seine Expertise bereits zweimal der HHU zur Verfügung gestellt. Im Februar 2017 stellte er in einem Gastvortrag Überlegungen an zu der Frage „Worauf der Comic aufbaut“, und im Juli 2017 nahm er gemeinsam mit der Wissenschaftlerin Dr. Nina Mahrt und dem Comic-Künstler Simon Schwartz an einer Podiumsdiskussion teil, die sich der Frage widmete „Womit kann der Comic sich beschäftigen?“ Auch in Publikationen hat sich Platthaus dem Thema des grafischen Erzählens gewidmet, so beispielsweise in seinem 1998 erschienen Buch Im Comic vereint.
The CMPF requires two new full-time research assistants to join our team in 2019. The roles are based at our office in Florence and will require the successful candidates to assist in the research and implementation of the new Media Pluralism Monitor (MP2020).
The roles of the research assistants are;
The world’s biggest social network plans to launch a new dating application but in the same time it bans all types of potentially sexualised behaviour in a new version of its community standards, including communication via private groups or messages. This threatens not only the users’ freedom of expression but also their freedom of personal development.
No more “sexual behaviour”
With the New Year comes the launch of NAT64Check version 2 from the Internet Society. The first version of NAT64Check was introduced a couple of years ago and has proved very popular and successful, so for the past year we’ve been working on a number of enhancements in response to feedback and requests. And we’re very happy to be able to make the new version available as we welcome in 2019.