Book by Fiona Anciano and Laurence Piper: “Why is dissatisfaction with local democracy endemic, despite the spread of new participatory institutions? This book argues that a key reason is the limited power of elected local officials, especially to produce the City. City Hall lacks control over key aspects of city decision-making, especially under conditions of economic globalisation and rapid urbanisation in the urban South.

Since 2015, Budapest-based Cargonomia has acted as a sustainable urban transport centre and local organic food distribution point through its cargo-bike messenger service, bicycle-building cooperative, family-scale organic vegetable farm, organic bakery, wine distributor and network of citizen volunteers.
An open farm day tour in Zsambok’s Organic Garden, Cargonomia’s organic farming partner. Credit – Logan Strenchock

Karissa McKelvey from the Dat Project provides an overview of the new decentralized Internet and the need to insert commons thinking and practices into this new space. This text is based on Karissa’s2017 Full Stack Fest’s keynote and was originally published in the Dat Project’s Blog.

Chris Meserole at Brookings: “In the summer of 1955, while planning a now famous workshop at Dartmouth College, John McCarthy coined the term “artificial intelligence” to describe a new field of computer science. Rather than writing programs that tell a computer how to carry out a specific task, McCarthy pledged that he and his colleagues would instead pursue algorithms that could teach themselves how to do so.

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"Las siete últimas palabras de Cristo en la cruz", obra religiosa escrita por Joseph Haydn será dirigida este fin de semana por el titular de la orquesta, maestro Leonid Grin, y en ella participarán como solistas Claudia Pereira, Ana Navarro, Felipe Catalán, y David Gáez, todos miembros de la Camerata Vocal.

Financiado por el Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio, el curso en línea "Paisaje Sonoro: escucha, experiencia y cotidianidad" busca despertar nuevas formas de comprender y apreciar su entorno sonoro.

Reconocer constitucionalmente a los pueblos indígenas, establecer una ley de cuotas de participación política y mejorar las condiciones de vida en la región, son algunos de los anuncios realizados este lunes como parte de este plan. Pero, ¿cuál será la bajada de dichas propuestas y cómo quedarán plasmadas en la institucionalidad?

David Gal at the New York Times: “Behavioral economics seems to have captured the popular imagination.

David Nersessian at Business Horizons: “The Economist recently declared that digital information has overtaken oil as the world’s most valuable commodity. Big data technology is inherently global and borderless, yet little international consensus exists over what standards should govern its use. One source of global standards benefitting from considerable international consensus might be used to fill the gap: international human rights law.

Book by William Davies: “Why do we no longer trust experts, facts and statistics? Why has politics become so fractious and warlike? What caused the populist political upheavals of recent years?How can the history of ideas help us understand our present?

Die Internationale Liga für Wettbewerbsrecht (LIDC) hat bei ihrer Jahrestagung in Budapest am 6. Oktober 2018 eine umfangreiche Resolution verabschiedet, nach Vorstudien von Prof. Dr. Nikolas Guggenberger (Münster) und  20 nationalen Berichten aus der EU, der Schweiz, Ukraine oder Hongkong. Die von den über 100 Delegierten aus mehr als 25 Staaten mehrheitlich verabschiedete Resolution wendet sich an die EU und nationale Gesetzgeber.

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Paper by Christopher Tucci, Gianluigi Viscusi and Heidi Gautschi: “In this article, we explore the use of hackathons and open data in corporations’ open innovation portfolios, addressing a new way for companies to tap into the creativity and innovation of early-stage startup culture, in this case applied to the food and nutrition sector. We study the first Open Food Data Hackdays, held on 10-11 February 2017 in Lausanne and Zurich.

“Cities accumulate capital, people, aspirations, and power. But, whose power? Whose aspirations? How can we find in the city a place of possibility?”
These are the questions from Laura Flanders’ opening statements at the Transnational Institute’s convening on Transformative Cities in Amsterdam during July 2018.
 

Ao longo desta quinta-feira, dia 04 de outubro, especialistas se reuniram para debater os 30 anos da Constituição Federal brasileira no Centro Cultural da Fundação Getulio Vargas. O evento “30 Anos de Constituição: Democracia, Instituições e Realidade” foi organizado pela FGV Direito Rio e contou com abertura do diretor da Escola, Sérgio Guerra.

The community of Latin America and the Caribbean has maintained an incessant activity in community networks topics, particularly during September. This work has been reflected in various spaces, highlighting the Latin American Summit of Community Networks that took place in Argentina.
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Jerry Michalski: “Trust” is one of those words we think we understand, but mostly we don’t. In particular, we don’t understand the role of trust in designing our institutions. Worse, few of us question how our institutions are designed. We humans are so adorably adaptable, no?

Über das Papiertheater „Der Mikado“: Im 19. Jahrhundert kamen in Europa Papiertheater als neue Unterhaltungsform auf. Sie boten die Möglichkeit, sich die große Welt des Theaters in kleinem Format ins Haus zu holen, waren damit lehrreich und forderten zudem einiges an handwerklichem Geschick – schließlich musste das Theater zunächst einmal selbst aus Papierbögen zusammengebaut werden.