El proyecto, liderado por el académico Alejandro Hevia del Departamento de Ciencias de la Comunicación (DCC) de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM),se distingue por ofrecer un servicio de aleatoriedad pública verificable, el que provee de transparencia a las decisiones de esta área, destacando además cuatro propiedades: ser verificable, autónomo, consistente e impredecible.Con el objetivo de entregar una herramienta que matemáticamente ayude a mejorar nuestra democracia, por medio de la incorporación de  transparencia a procesos públicos, se lanzó o

El estudio establece que existe un 40 por ciento de postulantes que ya tienen un trabajo, quienes tienden a apostar por avisos con salarios mayores a sus expectativas. En contraste, los desempleados tratan de ajustarse más a los requisitos del aviso al principio de su búsqueda, pero, en la medida que pasa el tiempo, van guiándose cada vez menos por salario, educación y experiencia requeridos.El acelerado desarrollo de internet, los medios digitales y las redes sociales han transformado la manera en que las personas buscan trabajo.

Zu der UKD-Kapelle hat Arnd Vogelsang eine besondere Beziehung: Nach einer Erkrankung seines Vaters hat er an der Düsseldorfer Uniklinik einen Kurs für die Pflege von Hilfsbedürftigen zuhause belegt. Um Kraft zu tanken besuchte er die Kapelle: „Irgendwann bin ich sogar extra auf das Klinikgelände gekommen, nur um die Kapelle zu besuchen. Ich liebe solche alten Gebäude, die strahlen etwas Beruhigendes aus. Allerdings fiel mir auf, dass die Wände doch sehr kahl sind.“ Zuhause malte er dann ein Bild mit einem Kreuzsymbol.

Azacualpa Yamaranguila, a village in the Intibuca region in Honduras, is celebrating. And not for nothing.

Report by Theo Bass, Emma Sutherland and Tom Symons: “Cities are becoming a major focal point in the personal data economy. In city governments, there is a clamour for data-informed approaches to everything from waste management and public transport through to policing and emergency response

Book edited by John G. McNutt: “…offers a close look at both the present nature and future prospects for social change. In particular, the text explores the cutting edge of technology and social change, while discussing developments in social media, civic technology, and leaderless organizations — as well as more traditional approaches to social change.

Linda Poon at CityLab: “The way we consume power after midnight can reveal how we bad the morning rush hour will be….

Francis Fukuyama at the American Interest: “Most programs train students to become capable policy analysts, but with no understanding of how to implement those policies in the real world…Public policy education is ripe for an overhaul…

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Authors: Dries van Ransbeeck, David Chaves and Astrid Sercu

Yes, at least for your digital persona according to the German Federal Court of Justice [1]. The judges found that a social media account is hereditary. Social media accounts are to be treated as analog diaries. Would this mean that your heirs may access the data of your dating apps? In Germany, it passes via Karlsruhe The…
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Adam Arvidsson (translated from the Italian by Tiziano Bonini)
The Political Economy of the Common. Ed. by Andrea Fumagalli
(as yet untranslated Italian-language book)
Economia politica del comune, collects a series of essays, mostly published elsewhere, which summarize his analysis of post-crisis contemporary capitalism.

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Michel Bauwens: Commoning is not inherently inclusive, and neither are initiatives such as ecovillages that have some relation to commoning. The natural resource commons described by Ostrom were often communautarian and reflected the accepted gender and class typologies and expectations of the day. Ecovillages and landed common initiatives may require initial investments that filter participants and contributory projects may attract specific groups of people and not others.

Shweta Mohandas was a panelist at discussion on Ethical Data Design Practices in the AI (Artificial Intelligence) Age, organised by Startup Grind, Bangalore on July 28, 2018 at NUMA Bangalore.
Agenda
Ethical Data Design Practices in the Age
The panel discussion is intended to explore the challenges we face when designing the user experiences of the complex behavioral agents that increasingly run our lives.
Discussion centred around how to:

Gurshabad Grover participated in the IEEE-SA InDITA Conference 2018 organized by IEEE Standards Association held IIIT-Bangalore on July 10 and 11, 2018.
Gurshabad gave a brief presentation on how we could apply or reject 'Trust Through Technology' principles in the design of public biometric authentication. The agenda for the event can be accessed here. More details on event website here.

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) organized IETF 102 Montreal at Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Montreal in Canada from July 14 - 20, 2018. Gurshabad Grover participated remotely in the meetings of several Working Groups.

Escola recebe 28 alunos estrangeiros neste períodoNesta semana foi realizado o Orientation Day para os nossos intercambistas. São 28 alunos que vieram diversos países para estudar na FGV Direito Rio e foram recebidos pelo Coordenador de Relações Internacionais, Rodrigo Vianna. Na ocasião, foram apresentadas algumas questões relacionadas ao ensino da Escola e de como é viver no Rio de Janeiro.

The Economist: “What might happen if technology, which smothers us with its bounty as consumers, made the same inroads into politics? Might data-driven recommendations suggest “policies we may like” just as Amazon recommends books? Would we swipe right to pick candidates in elections or answers in referendums? Could businesses expand into every cranny of political and social life, replete with ® and ™ at each turn?

Annabelle Timsit at Quartz: “To be a person in the modern world is to worry about your relationship with your phone.