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“.

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Alberto Valz Gris (Future Urban Legacy Lab)
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Die "GraPra" Konferenz wird in 2019 bereits zum zehnten Male veranstaltet und findet inzwischen auch überregionale Resonanz. Sie bietet Promovierenden auf dem Gebiet der Parteienwissenschaften die Gelegenheit, ihre Projekte vorzustellen und zu diskutieren. Hierzu lädt das Institut für Deutsches und Internationales Parteienrecht und Parteienforschung (PRuF) herzlich alle Interessierten ein (Anmeldung per Email an gregor.zons@hhu.de). Das detaillierte Programm finden Sie im Flyer zur Veranstaltung.Download pdf-Flyer

I’m happy to report that my odyssey in producing Free, Fair and Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons — my new book on the commons with coauthor Silke Helfrich — is over….at least, the writing part. Last week we submitted the manuscript to New Society Publishers for publication in September. A German translation will be published by transcript Verlag in April. More about the book in later posts, but for now, I am pleased that I will be able to blog much more frequently than I was able in 2018 I have a backlog of items and reflections to share!

INC is happy to announce the publication of Theory on Demand #28: Communities at a Crossroads:  Material semiotics for online sociability in the fade of cyberculture by Annalisa Pelizza.
You can download, order a print on demand version or read the book here: https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-28-communities-at-a-crossroads/

Scroll down to the videos below to see young, engaged commoners describing the state of the art in Open Coops and P2P Politics.

Modern Western liberal democracies are under criticism: low voter turnout, overrepresentation of political extremists, corruption and polarisation – alongside the absence of a civilised political debate in the context of ‘fake news’ – are some of the symptoms. But what if elections are part of the problem? The core challenge is to guarantee both legitimacy…

I have a new article coming out, called Who Do You Sue? State and Platform Hybrid Power over Online Speech. It is about free expression rights on platforms like Facebook or Twitter, which the Supreme Court has called “the modern public square.” One section is about speakers suing platforms. It looks at cases – over thirty so far – where users argue that companies like Facebook or Twitter have violated their free expression rights by taking down legal speech that is prohibited under the platforms’ Community Guidelines.
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La Profesora Emérita de la Universidad de Linköping, Suecia, experta en Estudios de Género, visitó Chile para participar del Congreso Futuro y para exponer en nuestro plantel, sobre su investigación "La muerte y el duelo desde perspectivas decoloniales y eco-críticas queer-feministas".

Entre las diferentes gestiones que los mechones deben realizar al integrarse a la Universidad de Chile, se incluyen responder el Formulario de Caracterización Estudiantil (FOCES), y sacarse la foto de la TNE y la Tarjeta Universitaria Inteligente (TUI).

Miles de personas llegaron hasta la Plaza 21 de Mayo para la clausura de este evento artístico y cultural de formación que se desarrolló en Iquique entre el 20 y el 25 de enero. Un descollante show de la artista nacional Ana Tijoux y la presentación de los resultados del taller de danza y de la cantante lírica y académica de la U. de Chile, Patricia Cifuentes, dieron por terminado este evento realizado por la U. de Chile, la Universidad Arturo Prat, UNAP, y la Ilustre Municipalidad de Iquique.Energía pura.

El 24 de enero pasado el Rector Ennio Vivaldi ofreció un desayuno a los funcionarios de los equipos de Redes y Sistemas de la Dirección de Servicios de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicaciones (DSTI), en agradecimiento a su exitoso trabajo en el marco del proceso de postulación a la Educación Superior.Asegurar el funcionamiento de la plataforma virtual para el proceso de entrega de resultados de los puntajes de la Prueba de Selección Universitaria, PSU, la postulación al Sistema Único de las Universidades Chilenas y la entrega de sus resultados, requiere