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How solid is Tim Berners-Lee’s plan to redecentralize the web?

The internet and near-costless scaling of digital has allowed the concentration of too much power in too few hands. Our systems for accountability can’t or won’t keep up. By building alternatives, the decentralisation of networks, governance and control are a promising antidote.

María Esther Pozo traerá la experiencia boliviana en materia de género

Como parte de la tercera sesión de este ciclo de encuentros que lleva por título "Universidades públicas latinoamericanas: Construyendo la educación no sexista", la vicerrectora de la Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, ofrecerá una conferencia este martes 16 de octubre, instancia abierta a toda la comunidad.Conocer la experiencia regional en materia de acciones que impulsan la educación no sexista y la igualdad de género en otras latitudes de la región latinoamericana es el objetivo del nuevo ciclo del Seminario Permanente "Universidades públicas latinoamer

Australia's Revised "Assistance and Access" Bill: Still a Bad Idea

Today I'm submitting a second round of comments to the Australian government regarding its proposed Assistance and Access Bill.

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United States

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Comments for Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) review of the Telecommunication & Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance & Access) Bill 2018

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Author(s): Riana PfefferkornPublication Date: October 11, 2018Publication Type: Other WritingComments submitted to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) of the Australian Parliament on the revised draft (20 September 2018 version) of the Telecommunication & Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance & Access) Bill 2018.

Community digest: Writing about Islam in Hebrew; GLAM activity kicks off in Indonesia; news in brief

Writing about Islam in Hebrew: Dar AsSalam Editors
Last January, Wikimedia communities around the world celebrated Wikipedia’s seventeenth birthday—and Wikimedia Israel joined in. Held at the IBM office in Tel Aviv, nearly 60 Wikimedians attended, including a group of Palestinian editors from the Dar AsSalam Islamic Center (meaning House of Peace) in Kafr Qara, Haifa district.

Prioritizing Indigenous Connectivity in North America

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly technology evolves. In 2007, the iPhone was released and dramatically transformed the way we communicate. Then, less than three years later, the first iPad hit consumer shelves and revolutionized personal computing. Now, Internet service providers around the world are racing to deploy the infrastructure needed to fuel our transition into smart cities of increasingly connected homes and driverless cars.

Mercator-Fellow Prof Dr. Toru Fujiwara Gastprofessor an der HHU

Alle Organismen einschließlich der Pflanzen verfügen über ausgefeilte Strategien der Nährstoffverwertung aus ihrer Umgebung. Da die pflanzliche Ernährung ein wichtiger Baustein in der Pflanzenproduktion ist, hängt auch unser Leben davon ab. Versteht man die Transportmechanismen in der Pflanze – etwa in deren Wurzeln –, kann dies dazu beitragen, Kulturpflanzen zu züchten, die Nährstoffe besser aufnehmen können.

“This might interest you” – How the Filter Bubble determines our perception

The Filter Bubble – that is one of the most discussed phenomena of the internet. It is suspected of restricting our perception of the Internet through filters. Everyone is talking about it and yet very few people know what the problem really is about. How does the Filter Bubble manipulate our perception? And can it…
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Ausstellung mit Werken von Thomas Schönauer

Ergänzend zur Ausstellung findet am 29.11.2018  um 19 Uhr ein von der Journalistin Regine Müller geleitetes Podiumsgespräch statt, das das im Ausstellungstitel genannte Thema diskutieren wird und an dem teilnehmen: Dr. Simone Bagel-Trah (Aufsichtsratsvorsitzende des Henkel-Konzerns), Prof. Dr. Gries (Direktor des Instituts für Textiltechnik an der RWTH Aachen), Thomas Schönauer (Künstler) und Prof. Dr. Peter Tepe (Herausgeber von w/k – Zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst).

Kristina Irion takes part in OECD expert consultation on “Protection of Children in a Connected World”

Review of Ana Peraica’s ‘Culture of the Selfie’ in Postdigital Science and Education

‘Ana Peraica’s Culture of the Selfie: Self-Representation in Contemporary Visual Culture is an outstanding source for art researchers and students, photographers, humanists, and media theorists. It contributes to diverse fields including but far from limited to cultural studies and psychology. It reaches beyond a chronological overview of analyzed phenomena and analyses the contemporary condition through theory and artwork. Technical aspects are depicted in detail and supported by excellent examples.

Governing Artificial Intelligence: Upholding Human Rights & Dignity

Report by Mark Latonero that “…shows how human rights can serve as a “North Star” to guide the development and governance of artificial intelligence.
The report draws the connections between AI and human rights; reframes recent AI-related controversies through a human rights lens; and reviews current stakeholder efforts at the intersection of AI and human rights.

Kinderuni-Workshops im Botanischen Garten

Während der Herbstferien können Mädchen und Jungen im Alter von acht bis zwölf Jahren im Botanischen Garten der HHU zusammen mit Biologinnen und Biologen der Universität auf Entdeckungstour gehen und die Pflanzen- und Tierwelt erforschen. Die kleinen Forschergruppen entschlüsseln das Geheimnis bunter Farben, beobachten Vögel, untersuchen Blütenpflanzen und gehen mit Lupe und Mikroskop auf Entdeckungstour in den Mikrokosmos.

Starke Allianz gegen Krebs

Die Fortschritte in der onkologischen Forschung sind enorm: Das Wissen um die Entstehung von Tumoren wächst rasant und es gibt heute sehr viel mehr Therapieoptionen als noch vor zehn Jahren. Die Therapien werden immer individueller, da sich auch die häufigen Krebserkrankungen in kleine Subtypen unterteilen lassen, die alle unterschiedlich behandelt werden müssen.
Vier Zentren – eine Vision: Gemeinsam gegen den Krebs

Stop chasing unicorns: the power of zebras, herds and Platform Coops

This article, originally published in Platform.Coop, was authored by Lieza Dessein and Chiara Faini, both strategic project managers for SMart.coop headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

Stop Chasing Unicorns

Essay of the Day: Rethinking the Smart City : Democratizing Urban Technology

Democratizing Urban Technology
Evgeny Morozov and Francesca Bria – January 2018.
Republished from Rosa Luxemburg New York.

HHU-Nostalgia - Erstsemesterbegrüßung der HHU mit damaligem Rektor Prof. Kaiser, 1991

Die Bildergalerie "HHU-Nostalgia" stellt interessante Archiv-Motive vor und wird kontinuierlich ausgebaut und ergänzt: Viel Spaß! 
Hier geht es zur kompletten Galerie (Übersichtsseite).
Haben Sie vielleicht auch noch ein interessantes "historisches" Foto der HHU? Die HHU-Bildredaktion freut sich über jede Einsendung: Dieter Joswig, Tel. +49 211 81-14861E-Mail senden

A Right to Reasonable Inferences: Re-Thinking Data Protection Law in the Age of Big Data and AI

Paper by Sandra Wachter and Brent Mittelstadt: “Big Data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) draw non-intuitive and unverifiable inferences and predictions about the behaviors, preferences, and private lives of individuals. These inferences draw on highly diverse and feature-rich data of unpredictable value, and create new opportunities for discriminatory, biased, and invasive decision-making.

Training the next generation of network engineers in Kyrgyzstan

The Internet Society in conjunction with Packet Clearing House (PCH), our Kyrgyzstan Chapter (ISOC-KG) and the CAREN Project organised a BGP and Peering capacity building workshop on 3-7 September 2018 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. This five-day workshop was aimed at training engineers for the existing KG-IX Internet Exchange in the capital Bishkek, but also for the prospective Ferghana Valley Internet Exchange being established in the southern city of Osh.

El impacto de la resolución de La Haya en el derecho internacional

Conocidos los términos del fallo de la Corte Internacional de Justicia que por 12 votos a 3 rechazó la demanda entablada por Bolivia en contra de Chile el 2013, un grupo de académicos de la Facultad de Derecho y del Instituto de Estudios Internacionales de nuestro plantel, analizaron el aporte que realiza a la consolidación del Derecho Internacional contemporáneo, y defendieron la existencia de mecanismos internacionales de resolución de controversias entre Estados.Luego de ver en directo junto a decenas de estudiantes de la Facultad de Derecho la lectura del resumen del fa