Other News from Participating Centers

Prof. Dr. Ellen Fritsche (IUF) erhält Ursula M. Händel-Tierschutzpreis

Der mit jeweils 50 000 Euro dotierte Preis wird bereits zum siebten Mal an Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler verliehen, die den Tierschutz in der Forschung im Sinne des 3R-Prinzips verbessern. Die drei R stehen dabei für Replace (Vermeiden), Reduce (Verringern) und Refine (Verbessern). Die DFG teilte in diesem Jahr aufgrund des starken Bewerberfeldes den Preis, - neben Prof. Fritsche erhielt auch der Mathematiker und Mediziner PD Dr. Dr. Hamid Reza Noori vom Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik in Tübingen die Auszeichnung.

How to be a public entrepreneur

Rowan Conway at the RSA: “Political theorist Elinor Ostrom was the first to coin the phrase “public entrepreneur” in her 1965 UCLA PhD thesis where she proposed that government actors should be the makers of purpose-driven businesses. She later went on to surprise the world of economics by winning a Nobel prize.

FGV Direito Rio recebe inscrições para o Programa de Bolsas Íbero-Americanas Universidades 2019

Inscrições podem ser realizadas até o dia 12 de setembroA FGV Direito Rio recebe inscrições para o Programa de Bolsas Íbero-Americanas Universidades 2019 do Santander. Serão destinadas três bolsas de estudo alunos da Fundação Getúlio Vargas para o primeiro período de 2019.

Making a 21st Century Constitution: Playing Fair in Modern Democracies

‘Mayor for a Day’ – Is Gamified Urban Management the Way Forward?

Paper by Gianluca Sgueo: “…aims at describing the use, exploring the potential – but also at understanding the limits – of the use of ‘gamification’ strategies into urban management. Commonly defined as the introduction of game-design elements into non-game contexts, with the former aimed at making the latter more fun, gamification is recognised among the technological paradigms that are shaping the evolution of public administrations.
The paper is divided in three sections.

On the Bumpy Road Towards Open Government: The Not-Invented-Here Syndrome as a Major Pothole

Paper by Lisa Schmidthuber, David Antons and Dennis Hilgers: “This paper investigates the role of public employees in absorbing external knowledge. Triggered by open government initiatives and open calls for participation, external actors are invited to integrate ideas, solutions, or experience into public organizations. Such exploitation of valuable external knowledge across organizational interfaces might, however, be hindered by negative attitudes of public employees towards external input.

Cloud Communities: The Dawn of Global Citizenship?

Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper by Liav Orgad and Rainer Baubock: “New digital technologies are rapidly changing the global economy and have connected billions of people in deterritoralised social network. Will they also create new opportunities for global citizenship and alternatives to state-based political communities?

The ‘Datasphere’, Data Flows Beyond Control, and the Challenges for Law and Governance

Paper by Jean-Sylvestre Bergé, Stephane Grumbach and Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich: “The flows of people, goods and capital, which have considerably increased in recent history, are leading to crises (e.g., migrants, tax evasion, food safety) which reveal the failure to control them. Much less visible, and not yet included in economic measurements, data flows have increased exponentially in the last two decades, with the digitisation of social and economic activities.

Patterns For Decentralised Organising: PDF Booklet

Following up from this post last year, I recently noticed that Richard and Nati from Loomio have now published a distillation of their course about decentralised organising in the form of a PDF booklet, described as follows:

Algorithms are taking over – and woe betide anyone they class as a ‘deadbeat’

Zoe Williams at The Guardian: “The radical geographer and equality evangelist Danny Dorling tried to explain to me once why an algorithm could be bad for social justice.

Law: The invisible architecture of the commons

Saki Bailey: In 2009, political economist Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize in economics for her work demonstrating that “the commons” are not simply unregulated spaces of ruin, but instead places where the law operates invisibly, according to community norms and values in ways that lead to their sustainable use over many generations.

„Diversity in Practice – Mein Weg ins Praktikum“

Franz zeigte auf, welche beruflichen Möglichkeiten Networking für die Studierenden mit Behinderung bietet: „Die Kosmetikfirma L’Oréal zum Beispiel stellt für unsere Studierende mit Behinderung pro Jahr fünf Praktikumsplätze zur Verfügung. Studierende aller Fachrichtungen sind willkommen und können in drei bis sechs Monaten einen Einblick in verschiedene Abteilungen gewinnen.“

The Magic of “Multisolving”

Elizabeth Sawin at Stanford Social Innovation Review: “In Japan, manufacturing facilities use “green curtains”—living panels of climbing plants—to clean the air, provide vegetables for company cafeterias, and reduce energy use for cooling.

Information Asymmetries, Blockchain Technologies, and Social Change

Reflections by Stefaan Verhulst on “the potential (and challenges) of Distributed Ledgers for “Market for Lemons” Conditions: We live in a data age, and it has become common to extol the transformative power of data and information. It is now conventional to assume that many of our most pressing public problems—everything from climate change to terrorism to mass migration—are amenable to a “data fix.”

Information Asymmetries, Blockchain Technologies, and Social Change

Reflections on the potential (and challenges) of Distributed Ledgers for “Market for Lemons” Conditions
(Cross-posted from Medium)
“We live in a data age, and it has become common to extol the transformative power of data and information. It is now conventional to assume that many of our most pressing public problems—everything from climate change to terrorism to mass migration—are amenable to a “data fix.”

The Case for Accountability: How it Enables Effective Data Protection and Trust in the Digital Society

Centre for Information Policy Leadership: “Accountability now has broad international support and has been adopted in many laws, including in the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), regulatory policies and organisational practices.

Comments on DOJ's "Cyber-Digital Task Force" Report

Earlier this month, the Department of Justice’s “Cyber-Digital Task Force” released a report “assess[ing] the Department’s work in the cyber area.” The report, which runs over 150 pages, covers a broad range of topics. Among these, in the “Looking Ahead” chapter, is “Going Dark”: DOJ’s name for a constellation of issues that render the government “unable to obtain critical information in an intelligible and usable form (or at all),” primarily encryption (and default encryption in particular).
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Constituent Engagement Tools in Brazil: A Conversation with Paulo Henrique

By Ayushi Roy and Kajol Char
On July 6, 2018, the GovLab’s Ayushi Roy and Kajol Char spoke with Paulo Henrique, the Chief of Technology for the HackerLab within the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, about e-Democracia – the HackerLab’s suite of constituent engagement tools.

The Cybersecurity 202: Justice Department to mount another encryption push despite setbacks

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The future of work? Working on the future!

Until 2030, half of our jobs will have disappeared. Simply gone, fallen prey to “Artificial Intelligence”, replaced by robots. Ghostly visions like these are now wandering through feuilletons, best-selling books and World Economic Forums alike. Automation is ostensibly endangering democracy, society, and it is to blame for Trump in any case. Die virale Gespenstergeschichte von der „Hälfte…
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