A long-time multistakeholder and international approach toward creating Internet policy is breaking down, with individual nations and some large companies increasingly deciding to go their own way and create their own rules, some Internet governance experts say.
Christina Dinar will lead research on youth and social media
Christina Dinar has joined the CIHR as the Deputy Director and will lead research program on youth and social media, including the Democratic Meme Factory project. She will focus on the online expression of young people in the broader context of the digital transformation of the public sphere.
Während der erste Teil eine 20-köpfige Düsseldorfer Gruppe im September 2018 zu Gedenkstätten für NS-Opfer nach Belarus, geführt hatte, brachte nun der zweite Teil des Projektes 14 deutsch-belarussische Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer an verschiedenen Gedenkstätten für NS-Opfer und insbesondere an Erinnerungsorten für die NS-Patientenmorde in Düsseldorf und Umgebung zusammen. Finanziert wurde dieser Projektteil aus Mitteln des Auswärtigen Amtes. Standort der Gruppe war Düsseldorf.
Republished from The Alternative UK
He was a really great scholar, and his definition of social-ism was simply a society where the social needs are primary, as opposed to capital-ism, where the needs of capital are primary. He invited me in the spring of 2016, because he thought our P2P approach was eminently compatible with his own vision of Real Utopias. It is then that we wrote the first manuscript of what would become our new book (with 2 co-authors, and yes, the wheels of academic publishing turn very slowly).
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La investigadora del Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación (CIAE), Liliana Morawietz, asegura que los términos en los que está planteada la llamada "Ley Machuca" no representará ningún aporte en mejorar la calidad de la educación pública, ni a nivel individual ni a nivel de sistema.Al contrario de lo que parecen creer quienes proponen la Ley Machuca, no hay evidencia que permita pensar que la educación que ofrecen los colegios particulares pagados sea beneficiosa para los estudiantes de sectores desfavorecidos.
Un taller reunió a profesionales del Ministerio de Obras Públicas y del Centro de Modelamiento Matemático de la U. de Chile en torno a las posibilidades que la ciencia de datos trae para la proyección de la infraestructura estatal, el modelamiento de fenómenos que la afectan y la fiscalización de su uso.En Chile, hay 101 cuencas hídricas y solo tres de ellas cuentan con algún tipo de planificación para contar con diagnósticos sobre la cantidad de agua que hay en el país y quiénes tienen derecho a usarla.
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Will you be at the ICANN 64 meeting in March 2019 in Kobe, Japan?
“I’m editing the page for the star Proxima Centauri. It’s missing something about the planet Proxima b, so I should fix it”. These are the words of 12-year-old Michael—surprisingly confident for someone contributing to Wikipedia for the first time.
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Scarlett Dessilla, Studentin der Kunstgeschichte, erhält für einen einmonatigen Forschungsaufenthalt in New York für die konzentrierte Werkanalyse von Lenore Tawney im Cooper-Hewitt Museum und dem Smithsonian Design Museum einen Betrag von 2.800 Euro.
Good news for small and medium-sized companies from Berlin, Brandenburg and throughout Germany: _Gemeinsam digital, the Mittelstand 4.0-Kompetenzzentrum Berlin, will be extended for another two years. With the approval of a further three million euros, the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi) is now funding the centre with a total of around 7.5 million…
News of cyber attacks and personal data breaches frequently make headlines nowadays, particularly in Asia Pacific*, and every time a new incident happens, it deals a blow to the trust of some users. Since cyber threats are grave and growing, society must understand how policymakers are addressing cybersecurity concerns, and what can be done to strengthen trust.
2019 is a special year for the public domain, the out-of-copyright material that everyone is free to enjoy, share, and build upon without restriction. Normally, each year on the 1st of January a selection of works (books, films, artworks, musical scores and more) enter the public domain because their copyright expires – which is most commonly 70 years after the creator’s death depending on where in the world you are. This year, for the first time in more than twenty years, new material entered the public domain in the US, namely all works that were published in the year 1923.
Die EU-Kommission will im Rahmen ihrer Initiative „Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R)“ die Arbeitsbedingungen für Wissenschaftler aller Karrierestufen an europäischen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen verbessern. Niedergelegt sind die Prinzipien hierfür in der „European Charter for Researchers“ und im „Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers“.
