Other News from Participating Centers

Future Thinking: Biddemu Bazil Mwotta on the Internet Economy

In 2017, the Internet Society unveiled the 2017 Global Internet Report: Paths to Our Digital Future. The interactive report identifies the drivers affecting tomorrow’s Internet and their impact on Media & Society, Digital Divides, and Personal Rights & Freedoms. In April 2018, we interviewed two stakeholders –Biddemu Bazil Mwotta, who introduced an agribusiness app, and Roxanne Varza, the director of  a startup incubator  – to hear their different perspectives on the forces shaping the Internet.

Aula Aberta | Introdução às Startups, Venture Capital e Private Equity

Aula Aberta | Introdução às Startups, Venture Capital e Private Equity 19h00O Evento: A FGV DIREITO RIO apresenta a Aula aberta: Introdução às Startups, Venture Capital e Private Equity que integra o programa do LL.M em Direito: Negócios. O curso objetiva desenvolver competências e estimular reflexões em temáticas jurídicas relacionadas ao ambiente de negócios por meio de uma abordagem interdisciplinar e contemporânea. Na ocasião será possível experimentar a metodologia aplicada e conhecer toda a infraestrutura disponível para os alunos.

The Week in Internet News: WiFi Gets a New Security Standard

A more secure Wi-Fi: The Wi-Fi Alliance has released the new WPA2 standard for WiFi that’s designed to mitigate several long-standing security problems. Among the fixes: The new standard mandates stronger WiFi passwords, Wired.com reports. The new standard also will include 192-bit encryption.

Distributed Curation: the commons handling complexity

A story about a wiki
Let me open by saying this is only a sketch – Michel Bauwens would probably want to elaborate, but I would like to mention only the very barest details here. Back around 2006, Michel started putting his notes about Peer-to-Peer and related ideas on the P2P Foundation wiki, and opened it up to trusted others to contribute as well. Naturally, after more than 12 years of committed input, there are thousands of pages, which have received millions of page views. Like many wikis, this can be seen as an information commons.

Gremienwahlen HHU für Studierende: Urnenwahl auf dem Campus am 3. Juli

Mangels Kandidaturen in den übrigen Fakultäten findet die Wahl zum SHK-Rat in diesem Jahr nur in der Philosophischen Fakultät statt!
Gewählt werden 2018 die studentischen Mitglieder

Andreas Baur at the Nuremberg Technology Dialogue

One thing is clear: There is no such thing as absolute security in cyberspace – but not to worry about security is also not a solution. In the meantime, there is a broad legal, technical and also political scope of possibilities; this became clear once again on 21 June 2018 at the Nuremberg Technology Dialogue at the Home Ministry.

CultiMake: Announcing the Results of the Open Call for Ideas

The P2P Lab is happy to announce the results of the

Steven Pinker’s Ideas About Progress Are Fatally Flawed. These Eight Graphs Show Why.

It’s time to reclaim the mantle of “Progress” for progressives. By falsely tethering the concept of progress to free market economics and centrist values, Steven Pinker has tried to appropriate a great idea for which he has no rightful claim.

Transparency, Society and Subjectivity

Book edited by Emmanuel Alloa and Dieter Thomä: “This book critically engages with the idea of transparency whose ubiquitous demand stands in stark contrast to its lack of conceptual clarity. The book carefully examines this notion in its own right, traces its emergence in Early Modernity and analyzes its omnipresence in contemporary rhetoric.

Reduced‐Boundary Governance: The Advantages of Working Together

Introduction by Jeremy L. Hall and R.

The Palgrave Handbook of Bottom-Up Urbanism

Book edited by Mahyar Arefi and Conrad Kickert: “Who shapes our cities? In an age of increasing urban pluralism, globalization and immigration, decreasing public budgets, and an ongoing crisis of authority among designers and planners, the urban environment is shaped by a number of non-traditional stakeholders.

A Public Bank for the Public Good

Reposted from The Laura Flanders Show.
What would students in debt, worker coops, and entrepreneurs stand to gain from a public bank in the financial capital of the world? This week, putting communities over commodities with leading figures in the fight for a new economy for working people.

These community groups are transforming Rio de Janeiro into a Sharing City

Shanna Hanbury: Rio de Janeiro is a city of extremes. Inequality is rampant, and while a small elite enjoy the “luxury” of housing, high quality education, and concentrated public funding, the majority of its citizens share the rest. The best examples of sharing are born not out of excess but from scarcity and collective problem solving. How do you build a house without money? How can you study if you can’t afford to pay for a bus to class?

Prof. Xue Addressed at the International Conference on Promoting Connectivity for an Inclusive Asia and the Pacific

International trade is a key driving force behind economic growth that since 1990 has listed more than a billion people out of poverty in Asia and the Pacific. However, in the years since the global financial crisis, trade growth has fallen behind GDP growth, after outpacing it for many decades. Despite early signs of a recovery in the growth of world trade, the global economic environment is still uncertain, and much remains to be done to realize potential trade outcomes for inclusive growth.

Seminário Direito e Desenvolvimento

Seminário Direito e Desenvolvimento09h00 até 18h00O Evento: Por meio do seminário Direito e Desenvolvimento, a FGV Direito Rio celebra o lançamento de projeto de pesquisa que envolve, entre outras propostas, análises e discussões sobre os efeitos esperados de normas e de decisões judiciais no comportamento dos agentes econômicos no país. Trata-se de iniciativa inovadora que visa à difusão da Análise Econômica do Direito junto ao Poder Judiciário.
 
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Draft bill proposes Rs 1 crore fine, 3 year jail for data privacy violation

The move comes at a time when user data of Indians is under threat from social media firms accused of data mining and sharing information with private companies for advertising and marketing purposes. There has also been a growing concern over Aadhaar.
The article by Vidhi Choudhury was published in the Hindustan Times on June 8, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

Announcing the Internet Society’s New President and Chief Executive Officer

Today is an exciting day for the Internet Society. It gives me great pleasure to announce, on behalf of the Internet Society’s Board of Trustees, that Andrew Sullivan has been selected as the Internet Society’s new President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He will formally take up his position on September 1, 2018.
This selection now successfully concludes the CEO search process we began last November.

Pobreza energética y de tiempo: las dimensiones menos abordadas

Naturalizadas como condiciones de vida de cierta parte de la población, ambos tipos de pobreza son hoy alertados e investigados por expertos y profesionales de la U. de Chile. El acceso a servicios como el agua caliente y a combustibles para calefaccionarse, y la posibilidad de realizar actividades recreativas y las horas de sueño adecuadas, son parte de la expresión de ambas.

Por un país que no olvide a los que olvidan

"Por su impacto en la salud de las personas y en el conjunto de la sociedad, las demencias cumplen todos los criterios para ser consideradas una prioridad de la salud pública", plantea la académica de la Facultad de Medicina, Andrea Slachevsky, en esta columna publicada en El Mercurio. La también coordinadora de la Clínica de Memoria y Neuropsiquiatría de la U.

Professor da FGV Direito Rio será observador internacional das eleições no México

Michael Mohallem vai analisar de perto o processo eleitoral do paísO México vai às urnas no próximo dia 1º de julho para eleger seu novo presidente e representantes para as casas legislativas. O coordenador do Centro de Justiça e Sociedade (CJUS) da FGV Direito Rio, Michael Mohallem, foi convidado pelo Tribunal Eleitoral do México e pelo Instituto Eleitoral Nacional para exercer a função de observador eleitoral estrangeiro durante o pleito.