Dear friends and commoners:
In the lead up to the Open Coop 2018 conference, Richard Bartlett and Natalia Lombardo (Loomio, Enspiral, the Hum) will join me in hosting an action-oriented workshop on Commonspoly at Newspeak House, London.
O docente foi convidado pela National School of Government do paísNa última semana, o professor e coordenador do Núcleo de Estudos Brasil-China, Evandro Menezes de Carvalho, participou do BRICS Seminar on Governance 2018 em Johannesburgo, África do Sul. O docente foi convidado pela National School of Government da República da África do Sul para participar do evento para falar sobre o tema "O ‘B’ e o ‘S’ dos BRICS: o desafio de construir pontes na Ásia para um futuro compartilhado da humanidade".
O relatório foi publicado em francês e inglêsRelatório oficial da Autorité de Régulation des Communications Électroniques et des Postes (ARCEP) incluiu um artigo analisando as pesquisas sobre Neutralidade da Rede de Luca Belli, pesquisador do Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade da FGV Direito Rio. No texto, o autor analisa a expansão das práticas de patrocínio de aplicativos, ditas de Zero Rating, e o impacto de tais práticas sobre a predefinição do uso da Internet, ao invés de permitir a cada usuário de desenvolver livremente novos aplicativos, novos serviços e novo conteúdo.
Zur Begrüßung dankte der Vorstand für die Leistung der Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter des UKD, gerade auch in den letzten Streikwochen. „Wir haben uns bewusst dazu entschieden, dieses Fest nicht aufgrund der Streikaktivitäten abzusagen. Es ging uns insbesondere darum, unseren besonders motivierten Beschäftigten zu danken und die große Resonanz freut uns außerordentlich“, so Ekkehard Zimmer, stellvertretender Vorstandsvorsitzender des UKD. Ein großes Dankeschön gab es auch an das Organisationsteam des Sommerfestes.
Fake messaging: WhatsApp, the popular messaging tool, will pay researchers up to $50,000 to study the spread of fake news through its platform, notes Mashable.com.
A while ago James Evans, sociology professor at the University of Chicago, was our guest at the Open Journal Club. After his talk ‘Discourse as a Neural Network’ I asked him a few questions about scientific collaboration and online tools. He argues* that online tools extend people’s reach, thereby making more diverse collaborations possible. At…
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Praca w biurze ma swoje zalety, jest spokojnie, wygodnie, można zrobić sobie aromatyczną kawę i skupić się na pracy. Czasem jednak przychodzi ten moment, że nawet najwytrwalsi mają silną potrzebę porozmawiania z ludźmi i zobaczenia słońca w południe.
Starting next weekend, the Internet Engineering Task Force will be in Montreal for IETF 102, where over 1,000 engineers will discuss open Internet standards and protocols. The week begins on Saturday, 14 July, with a Hackathon and Code Sprint. The IETF meeting itself begins on Sunday and goes through Friday.
Am Institut für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht, Zivilrechtliche Abteilung werden zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt zwei
Studentische Hilfskräfte (m/w/d)
mit einer Arbeitszeit von je 5 Stunden / Woche gesucht.
Die Tätigkeit betrifft die Mitarbeit in einem Drittmittelprojekt im Bereich des IT-Rechts unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Nikolas Guggenberger, LL.M. (Stanford). Die Stelle ist zunächst befristet, eine längere Zusammenarbeit ist gewünscht.
On some accounts, we are moving from a world of hierarchy to a world of networks. A common feature of hierarchies, with its emphasis on communications as instructions, has been to promote simplicity, assigning low value to what lies outside of its frame of reference. So, can complexity now make a comeback in business?
Ed Mayo: I work in the co-operative sector. Co-ops are different and much of this, as I see it, comes down to the fact that co-ops tend to be characterised by complex purpose.
As we recently announced, the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC) will host a lunch panel on “Cyber Diplomacy Meets InfoSec and Technology” alongside IETF 102 on Tuesday, 17 July. Registration opens today in two time slots for global time zone fairness, at 08:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC.
The Distributed Design Market Platform (DDMP) aims to strengthen a creative community of more than 10.000 registered users who are fabricators, artists, scientists, engineers, educators, students, amateurs, professionals, ages 5 to 75+, located in more than 40 countries in more than 1000 Fab Labs. The Platform aims at promoting and improving the connection of makers and designers with the market (Maker to Market).
Today, public interest in journalism seems greater than ever. Buzzwords such as ‘fake news’ or ‘click bait’ indicate that we are dealing with a polarising political issue. Anyone who dares to investigate journalism in this intensified situation also wants to better understand the world in which we are living. After all, journalists play a decisive role in this scenario because they have a strong influence on how we perceive the world.
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In this episode, Kristen Eichensehr discusses the challenge of extraterritoriality in cyber, the concept of "digital Switzerlands," companies acting increasingly like nation-states and running their own foreign policies, and laws and regulations that can create incentives to give up on cybersecurity.
Ursprünglich entstanden ist der Medizinerchor Düsseldorf (auch: Studierendenchor der Medizinischen Fakultät Düsseldorf e.V.) im Jahr 2012 anlässlich eines kurzen Auftritts bei der traditionellen Gedenkfeier für Angehörige von Körperspendern in der Medizinischen Fakultät. Aus dem einmaligen Auftritt ist aufgrund der gemeinsamen Begeisterung für das Singen ein Chor mit festen Probezeiten und Auftritten geworden. Heute fasst er unter der musikalischen Leitung von Maurus Hagemeister und Otto Lin etwa 100 Mitglieder.
Shanna Hanbury: In the face of poor public services and high rates of assault and violence, how can women help each other heal and deal with the aftermath of traumatic events? A small team spread out across Rio De Janeiro, Recife, and São Paulo in Brazil, is betting on solidarity and sorority to build a firm nation-wide network of support and care called Mapa do Acolhimento.
Book edited by Nelson Dias: “Hope for Democracy” is not only the title of this book, but also the translation of a state of mind infected by innovation and transformative action of many people who in different parts of the world, are engaged in the construction of more lasting and intense ways of living democracy.
The articles found within this publication are “scales” of a fascinating journey through the paths of participatory democracy, from North America to Asia, Oceania to Europe, and Latin America to Africa.
The Economist: “Data Slavery” Jennifer Lyn Morone, an American artist, thinks this is the state in which most people now live. To get free online services, she laments, they hand over intimate information to technology firms. “Personal data are much more valuable than you think,” she says.
The prompt arrest has impressed cybercrime experts, but some are sceptical whether this case will serve as a deterrent for trolls or spell hope for citizens at the receiving end of online abuse.
The article was published in the Times of India on July 6, 2018.
In this final installment in the REMODEL design sprint program, the 10 Danish manufacturing companies were challenged to prototype a community eco-system chart based, among other things, on all the work done in the previous phases. With this, it started to become clear how essential and powerful communities of co-creators can be, but also how difficult community building actually is.
This is part of a serious of blogposts about the REMODEL programme at The Danish Design Centre