In January, I began a series of MOOCs on social entrepreneurship. One of the courses focuses on Business Models. My interest is in applying the Open Value Network Model to social entrepreneurship. All of the courses emphasize “scaling” the business. I suggested previously that developing economies of scope might be a better aim. The courses also unanimously advocate Lean processes.  In the Lean Startup approach, the social entrepreneur develops hypotheses, builds iterative prototypes, and tests them with real people. “You must leave the office,” is the mantra.

Facebook’s global affairs boss Sir Nick Clegg has been challenged to tackle the spread of ‘fake news’ on Facebook ahead of vital European elections.
Catherine Stihler, chief executive of Open Knowledge International and a former MEP, has written to the former Deputy Prime Minister to request more transparency from Facebook and its assistance in resuscitating the three foundations of ‘tolerance, facts and ideas’.

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The 2017 Global Internet Report: Paths to Our Digital Future focused attention on the significant potential of the Internet for innovation and sustainable development, but without denying or shirking the challenges it also introduces. This forward-looking analysis is a powerful advocacy tool for anyone who wants to protect and build the open Internet.

The Internet Society recognises that global deployment of the IPv6 protocol is paramount to accommodate the present and future growth of the Internet. Given the scale at which IPv6 must be deployed, it is important that the possible security implications of IPv6 are well understood and considered during the design and deployment of IPv6 networks, rather than as an afterthought.

A few months ago, people across the world were asked “What is Wikimedia?”
Almost no one answered correctly.
But while “Wikimedia” may not be widely recognized outside our movement, there is a clear way to use our existing brands to better bring in the billions of people who have yet to join us in our vision. We can center our brand system around Wikipedia, one of the world’s best-known brands.

This blog post originally appeared on Politics for Tomorrow.
Smarter Crowdsourcing: A Global Online Conference on  Learning and Teaching Public Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

You may remember a time before password standards, when passwords like “password” were used. As countless news stories have shown us since, those passwords were not ideal—but the recommended solution of creating complex passwords for each website has created problems of its own.[1]

Terminamos fevereiro de 2019, mês em que o Cristo Redentor, um dos maiores símbolos do país, ficou laranja pela causa da segurança da internet, com a pergunta: estamos seguros na internet? Como sociedade, é natural que compreendamos muitos fatos relacionados ao mundo online com preocupação e até temor. Mais importante do que “sim” ou “não” para a pergunta desse título, porém, é a resposta “como”.
 
Segurança na internet: ver para crer

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Dans le cadre des Midis-Conférences des Jeunes Chercheurs, nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à la quatrième et dernière de l’année académique 2018-2019. Sur cette conférence portant sur l’Accord de Paris et le transfert de technologies climatiques : Enjeux juridiques nous accueillons le Mardi 12 mars 2019 à 12 heures :

Charles CODÈRE, Conférencier, Candidat au doctorat – Faculté de droit – Université de Montréal et,

Botnets attack: A handful of botnets using compromised Internet of Things devises are now targeting enterprise video conferencing systems, reports CSO Online. Three recently identified botnets are based on the Mirai botnet, which had its source code leaked back in 2016. The original Mirai is no longer active, but its source code has served as the base for at least 13 other botnets.

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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