The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that supports the free knowledge platform Wikipedia, today announces that Victoria Coleman has stepped down from her role as Chief Technology Officer.
“Victoria joined us two years ago with the mandate to expand our system redundancies and refine our approach to technical program operations. I appreciate all her contributions and wish her well in the future,” said Katherine Maher, Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation.

The Southeast Asia region is one of the fastest growing regions in the world today. With rich natural resources, it has evolved into a highly industrialized region, inviting investors from all over the world. The riches however, are not enjoyed by all. According to one ASEAN report, close to 36 million of its population are still living below the international poverty line, with 90% of these people in Indonesia or the Philippines.

Acordo foi assinado no último dia 30No último dia 30, o Núcleo de Estudos Brasil-China da FGV Direito Rio e o Conselho Empresarial Brasil-China (CEBC) firmaram um Acordo de Cooperação Científica e Acadêmica com o objetivo de desenvolver estudos e análises sobre a China e sobre a relação entre os dois países. A assinatura do acordo foi realizada na presença do Vice-Diretor da Escola, Antonio Maristrello Porto, o Coordenador do Núcleo de Estudos Brasil-China, Evandro Menezes de Carvalho,  o Presidente do CEBC, Embaixador Luiz Augusto de Castro Neves, e o Diretor Roberto Fendt.

Hi,

My new book Team Human,
launches today.  I’ve never written to everyone in my address book
before, but this is by far the most important publication of my career: a
manifesto arguing for human dignity and prosperity in a digital age.

In einer neuen Ausgabe des J!Cast stellt Toshihiro Wada, aktuell wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft am ITM, die Neuerungen der EU-Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DS-GVO) vor. Thematischer Schwerpunkt des Podcasts ist der Angemessenheitsbeschluss für Japan gemäß Art. 45 DS-GVO.
Der Podcast ist auf Japanisch.
 

For centuries, ordinary Brits have enjoyed a legal “right to ramble” throughout the countryside even when they might cross someone’s private property. In England and Wales alone, there are an estimated 140,000 miles of footpaths and bridlepaths that are considered public rights of way. Now, as reported by the website Boing Boing, the full scope of this right — and access to a vast network of paths — is in question.

Prof. Xue was invited by the Center of Intellectual Property and Information Law of Cambridge Law Faculty to lecture to the faculties and graduate students on January 16-21, 2019. Prof. Xue Lectured on “Copyright on E-commerce Platforms: An Insight Preview of the Chinese New Law”. Chinese E-Commerce Law, effective from 1 January 2019, impacts all the stakeholders in the business.

电子商务法“升级”对消费者保护力度
2018-09-18 本报记者　蒲晓磊
禁止网购刷单；不得默认搭售；应当及时退还押金……针对近两年出现的一些侵害消费者权益的现象,电子商务法专门作出规定,并明确了相应的法律责任。例如,针对押金退还问题,电子商务法规定,电子商务经营者未向消费者明示押金退还的方式、程序,对押金退还设置不合理条件,或者不及时退还押金的,最高可处以五十万元的罚款。近些年,伴随着电子商务的高速发展,侵害消费者权益的花样也在不断翻新,电子商务法专门在多处针对热点问题作出回应,进一步构建了保护消费者权益的法律制度。
经营者不得滥用格式条款
北京师范大学法学院教授薛虹指出,在电子商务活动中,交易都是采用电子商务合同,除非特殊情况(例如当事人特别约定签署传统纸面方式的确认书)或者特殊领域(例如法律、行政法规有禁止性规定),都是采用自动信息系统订立的。
对此,电子商务法专门在“电子商务合同的订立与履行”一章中规定了一系列保护消费者合法权益的法律制度,主要包括:电子商务经营者信息披露义务、允许消费者更正输入错误的义务、不得滥用格式条款的义务。

Editor’s note: This is an abridged version of a post that was first published on MANRS.org. Read the full version.
In January last year I looked back at 2017 trying to figure out how routing security looked like globally and on a country level. I used BGPStream.com – a great public service providing information about suspicious events in the routing system.

Erstmals hat die Philosophische Fakultät in diesem Jahr eine eigene Feier für die Promovierten des letzten Jahres durchgeführt: eingeladen waren die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, ihre Doktorväter und -mütter und viele Gäste. Umrahmt wurde das Programm von drei Science-Slams, bei denen Doktoranden ihr Dissertationsthema vorstellten.

Thanks a lot to Heikki Patomäki for the stimulating proposal for “A World Political Party”.

I am sceptical for a number of reasons but primarily because I do not see a organic connection with anything that is unfolding on the ground. What I see unfolding is quite different, and I believe our solutions must be in harmony with these more grassroots trends.

See Sharing Society Project for complete details
 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

“Sharing Society. The Impact of Collaborative Collective Actions in the Transformation of Contemporary Societies”

Bizkaia Aretoa, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao (Spain)

May 23-24, 2019

Call for Papers and Poster Presentations

1. Context and Rationale

Authors: Iva Nenadić and Marko Milosavljevič
 

Am Donnerstag, den 31. Januar 2019 wurde Frau Prof. Dr. Katharina de la Durantaye an der juristischen Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität Berlin die Lehrbefugnis für Zivilrecht verliehen. In ihrem Habilitationsvortrag sprach sie über  „Die Ehe für alle und das IPR“.

In the fifth part of the blog article series, we present a traditional media company headquartered in Oldenburg, Germany, which was able to expand its existing product portfolio with a digital advertising platform. The digitisation project was triggered by a participation in a start-up. The online ad platform later evolved into a successful white label…

Speciaal evenement: 19.02.2019 > Tijd: 19:30 — 23:00 uur
Locatie: West, vml. Amerikaanse ambassade, Alphabetum / Lange Voorhout 102, Den Haag
Tickets: 5,- euro / bestellen via: https://tinyurl.com/demuur-virilio
Meer info: www.westdenhaag.nl

Government hacking: Japanese government workers will be able to hack into residents’ Internet of Things devices in an attempted survey of IoT insecurity, ZDNet reports. The Japanese government recently approved an amendment that allows the survey by employees of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology.

Am Dienstag, dem 12. Februar 2019, erfahren Interessierte ab 15:00 Uhr im Haus der Universität alles Wichtige und Wissenswerte über die Gasthörerschaft an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität zum kommenden Sommersemester. Vor Ort informiert der Studierendenservice über Einschreibung, Ablauf und Möglichkeiten sowie Kosten. Es ist keine Anmeldung erforderlich:
Dienstag, 12. Februar 2019
von 15:00 Uhr bis 16:00 Uhr
im Haus der Universität, Schadowplatz 14, 40212 Düsseldorf

Open Data Day 2019 is closer each day! We’re excited to see the events map slowly coming together in different parts of the world.
For those of you who are not familiar with the event, Open Data Day is the yearly event where we reach out to new people and build new solutions to issues in our communities using open data. To make sure some of those events have everything they need, we provide mini-grants to cover for some of the expenses of organising this kind of event.

Die Humangenetik hat in den letzten 140 Jahren eine rasante Entwicklung genommen: 1953 beschrieben Watson und Crick, um nur wenige Beispiele zu nennen, die DNA-Struktur als Doppelhelix und 2001 wurde das Humangenom durch Craig und Venter aufgeschlüsselt.
Heute sind mit den neuen Hochdurchsatz-Sequenziertechnologien („next generation sequencing“, NGS) bioinformatische Verfahren und Datenbanken sehr wichtig geworden.