This blog has been reposted from the Open Knowledge Nepal blog

Die Grafikreihe "HHU Facts" zeigt kurz und knapp interessante Fakten rund um die HHU auf: Thema heute sind die Studierenden an der HHU.
Alle bisher veröffentlichten Motive auf einen Blick finden Sie in der Bildergalerie (in Vorbereitung).
Haben Sie vielleicht auch ein interessantes Statistik-Thema rund um die HHU? Die HHU-Webredaktion ist offen für weitere Motive und freut sich über jede Anregung / Einsendung: Dieter Joswig, Tel. +49 211 81-14861E-Mail senden

Redesigning the human impact on Earth, bioregion by bioregion

For many people achieving sustainability might seem already like a visionary goal that is difficult to reach. Yet, we need to do even better to respond adequately to the converging crises ahead.

Just looking at the situation with regard to climate change alone, we have to now face the reality that we are in the midst of dangerous run-away (self-reinforcing) climate change. The window of opportunity to avoid catastrophic irreversible climate change is closing.

In the municipality of Jamundí, Colombia, local politicians were pushing to privatize the water service provided by public utility ACUAVALLE by waging a media campaign to discredit it. If successful, this would have seriously affected access to water for local people, 94% of whom are on low-incomes. However led by the utility’s union, Sintracuavalle, pressure from local people led to a shelving of a public-private water partnership that would have turned water into a commodity.

BGP hijacking and route leaks represent significant problems in the global Internet routing systems, along with source address spoofing. BGP hijacks are where allocated or unallocated address space is announced by entities who are not holders and are not authorized to use it.

À l’émission du Dimanche soir, Tout le monde en parle, Guy Rocher et son biographe Pierre Duchesne, ont évoqué l’oeuvre de notre collègue, et ce, à l’occasion du lancement prochain de l’ouvrage de Pierre Duchesne, Guy Rocher, tome 1, 1924-1963, Québec Amérique, 2019.

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Voorgedragen tijdens de presentatie van De Muur in Den Haag, voormalige Amerikaanse ambasade, 19 februari 2019.
Wim Nijenhuis: De lach van Paul Virilio

Tomorrow, the 26th consecutive Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) is set to kick off in San Diego, CA. NDSS is a premier academic research conference addressing a wide range of topics associated with improving network and system security. A key focus of the Internet Society has long been improving trust in the global open Internet and all of its connected devices and systems.

Ela Kagel was invited to co-host a fish bowl event on Blockchain, Cooperatives and Distributed Governance, together with Resonate Coop-founder Peter Harris. This fishbowl conversation was part of the Revision 2018 conference, held in Berlin, Germany on Nov 19-20, 2018.

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Auf der Homepage der SAUS sind Termine für die Schulungen von Brandschutz- und Evakuierungshelfer/innen (Ausbildung) veröffentlicht.
Dort ist auch das entsprechende Anmeldeformular hinterlegt. Bei Interesse senden Sie bitte das ausgefüllte und unterzeichnete Formular eingescannt per E-Mail an brandschutz@hhu.de oder per Fax an SAUS (81-11489).

This post by CultureBankED / Liam Murphy is republished from Medium.com  

Yesterday in Manila, the Philippines launched its national information and communications technology (ICT) framework, which lays out how digital transformation will empower citizens and the economy as a whole.
The National ICT Ecosystem Framework (NICTEF), is a successor to the Philippine Digital Strategy initiative from 2011-2016. Its plans, programs, and projects will be updated periodically as the government continually considers comments from all sectors of society and other indicators and results.

Faculty and students of Goa University’s Marathi department have updated 164 Marathi articles on Wikipedia related to Goa recently.
The article was published in the Times of India on February 20, 2019.

Swadeshi Jagran Manch has flagged security, business and social risks posed by Chinese apps such as TikTok. The RSS fears may not be totally unfounded.

Routing Security is featuring heavily on the APRICOT 2019 programme, which is being held on 23-28 February 2019 in Daejeon, South Korea. This helps build on the MANRS initiative being supported by the Internet Society,

CCAOI and the ISOC Delhi Chapter organised a webinar on February 11 to discuss the comments submitted to the Information Technology [Intermediary Guidelines (Amendment) Rules] 2018, and counter-comments that were due by February 14.
The agenda of the discussion was:

• A brief introduction to the counter comment process [Shashank Mishra]
• Invited stakeholders  comment on key issues and perspectives on the submissions and the points to be countered.

The following people participated:

Open Data Day is an important date for a broad community that works for a more open world, where information can benefit more people.  To support the efforts made by different groups and organizations on this day, we have developed the Open Data Day mini-grants, where, along with other organizations interested in having a more open world, we provide funds to events in different parts of the world.

CONFERENCE: Cultural and Creative Spaces and Cities

Thursday, 4 April 2019​La Tricoterie, Brussels, Belgium