This session from OPEN 2018 provides The session features presentations from Louis Cousin from Cooperatives Europe, Colm Massey from the Solidarity Economy Association, Laura James Co-founder at Digital Life Collective, and Tom Ivey from domains.coop about their specific mapping projects and objectives.
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In this talk, Director of Consumer Privacy Jen King will review her findings from her interview study of 23andMe users, focusing on motivations for testing, benefits, and perceptions of risk. She will also talk about privacy issues with direct to consumer genetic testing more generally, the state of current legal protections, and concerns about future risks.
November 13, 2018Stanford Law School
Advanced technologies are revolutionizing how the government investigates, charges and prosecutes criminal cases—and defense attorneys must keep pace. Even small police departments can purchase powerful surveillance technologies, and internet companies collect vast troves of data on virtually everyone. This two-day CLE conference will discuss the government's use of technologically advanced investigative techniques in criminal cases, and the issues raised by those techniques under the Fourth Amendment and other federal law.
November 29, 2018University of California - Berkeley
Book by W. Kip Viscusi: “Like it or not, sometimes we need to put a monetary value on people’s lives. In the past, government agencies used the financial “cost of death” to monetize the mortality risks of regulatory policies, but this method vastly undervalued life. Pricing Lives tells the story of how the government came to adopt an altogether different approach–the value of a statistical life, or VSL—and persuasively shows how its more widespread use could create a safer and more equitable society for everyone.
Happy Halloween! In some parts of the world, people are celebrating this holiday of horror by dressing up as monsters or other frights and watching scary movies. But sometimes these tales can be just a little boring. Pod people? Headless horsemen? Replicant children? Whatever.
It’s no surprise that buying behaviors have seen significant change over the past several years. Global online e-commerce sales are expected to double between 2016 and 2020. According to the U.S.
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Book by Bastiaan van Loenen, Glenn Vancauwenberghe, Joep Crompvoets and Lorenzo Dalla Corte: “This book is about open data, i.e. data that does not have any barriers in the (re)use. Open data aims to optimize access, sharing and using data from a technical, legal, financial, and intellectual perspective.
Book by Caroline S. Wagner: “In recent years a global network of science has emerged as a result of thousands of individual scientists seeking to collaborate with colleagues around the world, creating a network which rises above national systems. The globalization of science is part of the underlying shift in knowledge creation generally: the collaborative era in science.
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Dr. Eva-Ellen Sieweke „Die Gratifikationskrise aus personalwirtschaftlicher Perspektive– Empirische Analysen zu Einflussfaktoren und Auswirkungen“
Asylbek Sanarbekov, a social worker in the village of Suusamyr, Kyrgyzstan, can often be seen standing outside of his office building, phone in hand.
Paper by Basma Albanna and Richard Heeks: “Positive deviance is a growing approach in international development that identifies those within a population who are outperforming their peers in some way, eg, children in low‐income families who are well nourished when those around them are not. Analysing and then disseminating the behaviours and other factors underpinning positive deviance are demonstrably effective in delivering development results.
Begleitet wurde die Erstellung des seitens der Bevölkerung stark nachgefragten Tools erneut von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern der Wahl-O-Mat-Forschung an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Stefan Marschall. „Wir erleben, dass in Zeiten schwächer werdender Parteibindungen insbesondere auch die Themenorientierung von Wählerinnen und Wählern bei ihrem Wahlverhalten verstärkt wird. Der Wahl-O-Mat kann hier als unterstützende Orientierungshilfe gesehen werden“, so Marschall.
Herausragende Forscherinnen und Forscher von Universitäten, Max-Planck-, Fraunhofer- und Leibniz-Instituten sowie Helmholtz-Zentren haben sich für die Max Planck Schools vernetzt. Es gibt zur Zeit drei Max Planck Schools: Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaft, (Ko-Sprecherin ist Prof. Dr. Katrin Amunts, HHU/FZ Jülich), Photonik und Lebenswissenschaften.
Book edited by Allan Afuah, Christopher L. Tucci, and Gianluigi Viscusi: “Examples of the value that can be created and captured through crowdsourcing go back to at least 1714 when the UK used crowdsourcing to solve the Longitude Problem, obtaining a solution that would enable the UK to become the dominant maritime force of its time. Today, Wikipedia uses crowds to provide entries for the world’s largest and free encyclopedia.