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Seja por meio de uma conversa, uma mensagem de texto ou uma fotografia, a interação em sociedade acontece por meio da comunicação, e isso não é diferente na internet. No entanto, à medida em que seguimos cada vez mais presencialmente isolados uns dos outros, com nossas pesquisas, postagens e compartilhamentos, fica mais fácil esquecer do que vai além de nós – e nossas “bolhas” – no uso da internet. Como colaborar para a inclusão digital de outros usuários para uma internet mais livre, aberta e, de fato, comunicativa?
 
Acesso é inclusão digital?

In 2017, the FCC voted to abolish net neutrality protections, which ensure that we, not the companies we pay to get online, get to choose what we do online. This event will explore what we lost, why it matters, and what’s happening with efforts to restore those protections in the courts, the states and Washington, D.C.
May 30, 2019Stanford Law School

No
cameras, please: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted to
ban the use of facial recognition technologies by the policy and other agencies
over privacy and civil liberties concerns, the
New York Times reports. Even though police across the country have used the
technology to identify criminals, facial recognition has raised fears of abuse
and of turning the country into a police state.

Am 8. April 2019 präsentierte Prof. Zhou Lin, leitender Direktor des Intellectual Property Centers der Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, in den Räumen des ITM in Münster unter dem Titel „On the way to Credit“ Hintergründe und tiefergreifende Zusammenhänge zum chinesischen Sozialkreditsystem.

Die Ehrung wurde ihm für seine Pionierarbeit in der Entwicklung von Behandlungskonzepten zur Tumortherapie von Kindern, auch Kleinkindern, mit bösartigen Tumoren zuteil. Er ist Oberarzt der Klinik für Kinder-Onkologie, - Hämatologie und klinischer Immunologie. Die Düsseldorfer Klinik ist derzeit die einzige Klinik weltweit, die auch Kinder mit der gezielten Überwärmung des Tumorgewebes in Kombination mit Chemotherapie behandelt. Prof. Dr. Rolf Issels, LMU-Klinikum München, und PD Dr.

Beim achten HHU Ideenwettbewerb können Studierende, Absolvent/innen, Wissenschaftler/innen sowie Mitarbeiter/innen aus allen Fachbereichen der HHU, der An-Institute und des Universitätsklinikums Düsseldorf zeigen, welche Ideen sie für ein erfolgversprechendes Start-up haben. Und zum dritten Mal wird von der Gesellschaft von Freunden und Förderern der HHU ein Startup Stipendium in Höhe von 50.000 Euro ausgelobt – die Neuerung dabei: der zusätzliche Startup Wettbewerb, bei dem sich in diesem Jahr neben der o.g.

Prof. Dr. Vera Hemleben belonged from the beginning to the discussion group "Ethics in the Natural Sciences", which was founded in 1985 and from which the "Centre for Ethics in the Sciences" emerged in 1990. As a geneticist who dealt with all aspects of molecular biological investigations on plants, she was also a pioneer in the promotion and supervision of interdisciplinary doctoral theses on ethical questions at the then Faculty of Biology in cooperation with the Ethics Centre.

Cross-posted from The Open Coop and written by Oliver Sylvester-Bradley.

Having re-watched the webinar on Catalysing Collaboration at Scale I wondered if it might be possible to identify some of the key themes of collaboration.

Fifteen years ago, the Open Knowledge Foundation was launched in Cambridge by entrepreneur and economist Rufus Pollock.
At the time, open data was an entirely new concept. Worldwide internet users were barely above the 10 per cent mark, and Facebook was still in its infancy.

Das Unkrautvernichtungsmittel Glyphosat erhitzt seit Jahren die Gemüter. Aktuell läuft in den USA eine Reihe von Schadenersatzklagen erkrankter Personen, die mit Glyphosat gearbeitet haben. Gegensätzliche Meldungen unterschiedlicher Institutionen und Forschungsgruppen über eine mögliche Schädlichkeit des Pflanzenschutzmittels sorgen zusätzlich für Verunsicherung und erregen Zweifel an der Objektivität wissenschaftlicher Studien.

Smart Cities: Governança e Regulação14h00 até 18h00O Evento: Partindo da avaliação de boas práticas internacionais e de um estudo sobre premiadas cidades inteligentes brasileiras, o evento tem por objetivo oferecer um debate atual e crítico de políticas públicas, rankings, governança de dados e inovação urbana. Com uma abordagem multidisciplinar, pretende-se contribuir para o debate público sobre o futuro dos municípios, o direito à cidade e as promessas tecnológicas existentes
 

2016 hatte die Düsseldorfer Historikerin Prof. Dr. Eva Schlotheuber gemeinsam mit Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard), Dr. Susan Marti (Bern) und Prof. Dr. Margot Fassler (University of Notre Dame, USA) die Studie „Liturgical Life and Latin Learning at Paradies bei Soest, 1300–1425“ herausgegeben. Ausgehend von einer Gruppe bemerkenswerter und kaum bekannter liturgischer Handschriften des 14. und 15.

Este lunes, Ediciones Radio Universidad de Chile presentó el texto escrito por Sebastian Roché, profesor en Ciencias Políticas de la Universidad de Grenoble y del Centro Nacional de Investigación Científica de Francia.

I frequently encounter a notion, among those drawn to cooperatives, that a cooperative should be an amorphous, faceless collective in which old-world skills and norms of leadership can be discarded. How does this work out for them? Not well.

On Saturday 2nd March 2019, groups from around the world organised over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data. In this blog, we wrap up the ninth edition of Open Data Day with a summary of all that happened across the globe, as well as a look ahead to the future.
This year’s edition saw a total of 325 events registered in the opendataday.org map around the world, with a record total of 26 events in Nepal, and 57 events in Japan! This shows that Open Data Day is well established and a growing community.

The Wikimedia Foundation has determined that Wikipedia is no longer accessible in the People’s Republic of China—impacting more than 1.3 billion readers, students, professionals, researchers, and more who can no longer access this resource or share their knowledge and achievements with the world. We have not received notice or any indication as to why this current block is occurring and why now.

Today I have a response piece up on the Boston Review, responding to an intriguing essay by Bruce Schneier and CIS affiliate Henry Farrell about how to protect democracy against what they call "information attacks" designed to undermine the public's trust in elections and other institutions for

The Network Society Today: (Revisiting) the Information Age Trilogy

How can
the brightest minds help transform the Middle East for the better? The MIT SciTech
Conference
hoped to find answers. The annual three-day conference, which took place 19-21
April in Boston, Massachusetts, brought together students and professionals
from across North America and the MENA Region. This year’s theme was
“Envisioning the Future: Cities of MENA,” and included an IDEAthon on Energy,
Innovation, and Infrastructure.