Catherine Stihler. Photo: David Iliff / CC BY-SA.
Our Chief Executive Catherine Stihler OBE has accepted a new opportunity and will soon be leaving the Open Knowledge Foundation.
She goes with our very warmest wishes and we hope to continue a strong relationship with her in her new role as CEO of Creative Commons.

Do you have experience in research and interest in pursuing topics related to the “digitalization of higher education” with a fantastic team? Are you passionate about exploring the interaction between science and society? Then you are the perfect addition to our team.  The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) is looking for…
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La principal clasificación de instituciones de educación superior del mundo posicionó a la Casa de Bello como la primera del país en 17 áreas del conocimiento y figuró entre los mejores planteles del orbe en 25. La medición, que analiza el desempeño específico en cada disciplina, ubicó a la Universidad de Chile entre las mejores 200 del planeta en 6 campos.El Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) se ha consolidado como el ranking de universidades de mayor prestigio y trayectoria en el planeta.

"Los invito a todos a redoblar nuestros esfuerzos para hacer de esta casa aún mejor de lo que ha sido hasta hoy", señaló el decano Arturo Squella en un saludo enviado a la comunidad de dicha unidad académica, mensaje en el que también llamó a los miembros de la Facultad que lidera a tener paciencia, flexibilidad y fuerza para seguir adelante en estos tiempos de pandemia.La Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas fue fundada el 1° de julio de 1945 por el Rector Juvenal Hernández con el nombre de Facultad de Química y Farmacia, independizándola de la de

Académicas y estudiantes del Centro de Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos (CECLA), junto al Comité de Solidaridad Villa Colombia, organizaron un llamado para reunir dinero para un comedor popular y para la entrega de cajas con mercadería y útiles de aseo para cinco villas de esta comuna del sector sur de la capital, gestionado por las vecinas y vecinos de dicha organización como una forma de enfrentar y resistir la actual crisis.El 18 de mayo, a seis meses del inicio de la revuelta de octubre, diversas acciones de protesta por las consecuencias sociales de la pandemia se

You are a young expert in the research and development of artificial intelligence (AI)? You are not only interested in technical aspects but also in the societal implications of AI? You want to explore how AI can be developed and used in a way that is oriented towards the common good? If you are interested…
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SMEX is recruiting a part time Communication and Campaigns Officer. They will be in charge of campaigning for the different projects that SMEX is currently implementing in addition to managing communication and campaigning for SMEX’s annual Arabic-language unconference Bread&Net. Key Responsibilities: Co-create the social media strategy with the Digital Content[...]

You are a young expert in the research and development of artificial intelligence (AI)? You are not only interested in technical aspects but also in the societal implications of AI? You want to explore how AI can be developed and used in a way that is oriented towards the common good? If you are interested…
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Ziel des Vortrags ist, auf Grund unterschiedlichen Materials aus dem frankophonen Raum zu zeigen, wie Recht und Rechtsprechung damit umgehen und inwieweit pragma-semantische Grundkategorien zur Klärung solcher Fälle beitragen können. Im Mittelpunkt des Interesses steht die interpretatorische Arbeit sowohl des Linguisten als auch des Juristen, die in Disziplinen wie Semantik, Pragmatik, Hermeneutik und Rhetorik verankert ist.

 

OpenSpending is one of the longest running projects both at Open Knowledge Foundation and within the open data ecosystem in its entirety.
Starting life in 2009 as Where Does my Money Go?, OpenSpending has played a vital role in the publication of open budget and spending data by governments world over. 

„Menschen an einem Wendepunkt begleiten“, so schildert Hünten seine Arbeit als Hochschulpfarrer, der nicht nur für die Universität, sondern auch für die anderen Düsseldorfer Hochschulen zuständig war. Auf rund 250 schätzt er die Zahl seiner Gemeindemitglieder, immer ist es klar, dass es nur Mitglieder auf Zeit sind. Das macht die Arbeit spannend und hält jung „jedes Wintersemester haben wir die Gemeinde wieder neu erfunden“, so Hünten. Er hat es stets als Privileg begriffen, mit jungen, denkenden Menschen Gott zu suchen, hat zudem viele Taufen, Hochzeiten gefeiert.

2020 is a landmark year for governmental digital transformation and the adoption of digital ID technologies. Now more than ever before, governance is digital: elections, identification, participatory governance, and civic engagement facilitated through ICTs have reached remarkable levels. Politics and government can simultaneously exist and function both online and offline.

La professeure Miriam Cohen a publié son livre « Realizing Reparative Justice for International Crimes: from Theory to Practice », auprès de la prestigieuse Cambridge University Press, avec une préface de l’Honorable Cançado Trindade, juge à la Cour internationale de justice. L’ouvrage propose une analyse critique des différents mécanismes de réparation pour les crimes internationaux et avance une nouvelle théorie de justice internationale. 

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Lock it down: Several Internet Society chapters across the globe have written about the importance of encryption in recent weeks. The Namibia Chapter wrote about the way encryption can improve privacy and fight against the big business of criminal hacking. “Cybercrime is a global business, often run by multinational outfits,” the Chapter wrote.

Webinar | Eleições 2020: direitos, financiamento e campanha17h00O Evento: A Procuradoria Regional Eleitoral do Estado do Rio de Janeiro e o Fórum Fluminense Mais Mulheres na Política, em parceria com a FGV Direito Rio, convidam as pré-candidatas do Estado do Rio de Janeiro para debater o contexto das eleições de 2020 e informar sobre seus direitos. 
A segunda edição do webinar abordará, entre outras questões, os direitos e deveres das candidatas relativos ao financiamento de campanha, à realização de campanha digital e à pré-campanha.
 

The warning app for contact tracing of newly corona infected persons was downloaded a good 15 million times within the first three weeks after its launch. Most of these downloads have probably be activated by now. However, the daily number of new installations is now only about one hundred thousand – if this process does…

Written by: Pamela Nelson
Sewing is an act of mindfulness. When we embroider or engage in other creative activities like painting or sculpting, our perception of time can become distorted and give the illusion of ‘slowing down’, as discussed in ‘The Restructuring of Temporality During Art Making’ by Ariana van Heerden. In a fast paced, technocentric world, we must not underestimate the power of being able to slow down.