On 1 September I start work as CEO of the Internet Society. I have a lot to do to live up to the example set by Kathy Brown with all that she achieved during her leadership. It is a great honour, and I appreciate the trust the Board of Trustees has placed in me. I will work daily to earn the same trust from the rest of the Internet community, in part by being transparent about what drives me to do this.
Ed Yong at the Atlantic: “Psychologists are in the midst of an ongoing, difficult reckoning.
Report by the Centre for Policy Innovation and Public Engagement (CPIPE): “In recent years, governments all over the world have been embracing new and innovative ways to develop public policies and design public services, from crowdsourcing to human-centred design thinking.
Book by Thouvenin, Florent (et al.): “… examines the fundamental question of how legislators and other rule-makers should handle remembering and forgetting information (especially personally identifiable information) in the digital age. It encompasses such topics as privacy, data protection, individual and collective memory, and the right to be forgotten when considering data storage, processing and deletion.
Kriss Deiglmeier & Amanda Greco at Stanford Social Innovation Review: “…As we applied the innovation continuum to the cases we studied, we identified barriers to scale that often trap social innovations in a stagnation chasm before they achieve diffusion and scaling.
Norjihan Abdul Ghani et al in Computers in Human Behavior: “Big data analytics has recently emerged as an important research area due to the popularity of the Internet and the advent of the Web 2.0 technologies. Moreover, the proliferation and adoption of social media applications have provided extensive opportunities and challenges for researchers and practitioners.
Diana Budds at Curbed: “Algorithms are invisible, but they already play a large role in shaping New York City’s built environment, schooling, public resources, and criminal justice system.
Book by Anand Giridharadas: “… takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can–except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it. We see how they rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor; how they lavishly reward “thought leaders” who redefine “change” in winner-friendly ways; and how they constantly seek to do more good, but never less harm.
Anna Berti Suman in the International Review of Law, Computers & Technology: “This contribution analyses the promises and challenges of using bottom-up produced sensors data to manage public-health risks in the (smart) city. The article criticizes traditional ways of governing public-health risks with the aim to inspect the contribution that a sensor-based risk governance may bring to the fore.
Melanie Lefkowitz at Cornell Chronicle: “Cornell research has improved bike sharing in New York and other cities, providing tools to ensure bikes are available when and where they’re needed through a crowdsourcing system that uses real-time information to make decisions.
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Please join the Honorable BN Srikrishna, Chairman of the Group of Experts on Data Protection in India & former Justice of the Supreme Court of India, as he discusses the drafting of India's first ever data protection framework, submitted to the Indian government on July 27, 2018.September 19, 2018Stanford University
Desde hace algunos años se discute en algunos círculos empresariales y académicos, la existencia de una cuarta revolución industrial impulsada por el impacto de la tecnología digital y el procesamiento de datos, dando vida a lo que se conoce como "fábrica inteligente". Sus consecuencias: una explosión de la productividad, pero también una creciente automatización -y desaparición- de numerosos puestos de trabajo.
Osamentas humanas encontradas en plena construcción de la doble vía que uniría La Serena con Vallenar en 2014, forzaron el cese de las obras en un área de casi dos hectáreas, sobre las cuales el Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales ordenó a la empresa Sacyr una caracterización arqueológica y posterior rescate. El trabajo de un equipo de 70 profesionales liderado por los arqueólogos egresados de la U.
Kaushik Basu at Project Syndicate: “Democracy is in crisis. Fake news – and fake allegations of fake news – now plagues civil discourse, and political parties have proved increasingly willing to use xenophobia and other malign strategies to win elections.
Valerie Hellinghausen and Evan Absher at Kauffman Foundation: “The old measure of “jobs numbers” as an economic indicator is shifting to new metrics to measure a new economy.
The Internet Engineering Task Force has reached a significant milestone in the process of evolving its own administrative structure to best suit the current requirements of its work. After nearly two years of discussion about various options, the IETF community has created the IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC), a new legal entity.
Bei vielen Menschen im Alter zwischen 50 oder 60 Jahren setzt ein Hörverlust ein. „Viele Betroffene merken das erst gar nicht. Sie werden von ihren Freunden und der Familie angesprochen“, erklärt Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Klenzner, Ärztlicher Leiter des Hörzentrums und stellv. Direktor der HNO-Klinik am UKD. In der Regel können zunächst sehr hohe Töne nicht mehr gehört werden, später kommen dann auch die tieferen Tonbereiche dazu.
Last year, the Internet Society unveiled the 2017 Global Internet Report: Paths to Our Digital Future. The interactive report identifies the drivers affecting tomorrow’s Internet and their impact on Media & Society, Digital Divides, and Personal Rights & Freedoms. We interviewed Chris Riley to hear his perspective on the forces shaping the Internet’s future.
Mit der Entdeckung der Prionen lieferte er eine Erklärung für die „Rinderwahnsinn“ bzw. BSE genannte bovine spongiforme Enzephalopathie. In seinem Vortrag referierte er am Montag Nachmittag in beeindruckender Klarheit die Rolle von Prionen als Ursache für unterschiedliche neurodegenerative Erkrankungen: Für jede dieser Krankheiten von - von wie Alzheimer, anderen dementiellen Erkankungen bis zur Parkinson’schen Krankheit - stehen spezifische Prionen als Ursache.