Social Science Research Council: “For decades, the social sciences have generated knowledge vital to guiding public policy, informing business, and understanding and improving the human condition. But today, the social sciences face serious threats. From dwindling federal funding to public mistrust in institutions to widespread skepticism about data, the infrastructure supporting the social sciences is shifting in ways that threaten to undercut research and knowledge production.

Bis zum 5. Oktober können sich Studieninteressierte für einen der 18 zulassungsfreien Studiengänge an der HHU einschreiben (Übersicht über das Studienangebot der HHU).
Mit dem kommenden Wintersemester 2018/19 wächst das zulassungsfreie Studienangebot der HHU um den neuen Bachelor-Studiengang Transkulturalität. Der Studiengang ist noch in der Akkreditierungsphase – man kann sich aber schon einschreiben und im Oktober starten.

Fight against fakes: Facebook plans to fact-check videos and photos posted on the social media platform in an effort to combat misinformation, reports the Associated Press on SeattleTimes.com. Fact-checkers will use several methods, including analyzing image metadata, to determine accuracy, and Facebook will label photos and videos that are fakes, the company said.

Jill Lepore at the New York Times: “Every government is a machine, and every machine has its tinkerers — and its jams. From the start, machines have driven American democracy and, just as often, crippled it. The printing press, the telegraph, the radio, the television, the mainframe, cable TV, the internet: Each had wild-eyed boosters who promised that a machine could hold the republic together, or make it more efficient, or repair the damage caused by the last machine.

Dieser Prozess wurde bereits in den 1960er Jahren beobachtet, doch die molekulare Charakterisierung erfolgte erst in den letzten 20 Jahren. 2016 erhielt Prof. Yoshinori Ohsumi den Nobelpreis für Physiologie und Medizin für seine wegweisenden Arbeiten zu den molekularen Mechanismen der Autophagie.

Douglas Rushkoff, speaking at this summer’s Future Fest explores the importance of human connection in the digital age.
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A provocative, exciting, and important rallying cry to reassert our human spirit of community and teamwork.”―Walter Isaacson

The P2P Foundation has followed the work of Nathan Schneider for years, starting with his reporting on Occupy, followed by his visit to our FLOK project in Ecuador in 2014 (the first commons transition project undertaken at the invitation of nation-state institutions). Nathan was then instrumental in setting up, with Trebor Scholz, the platform cooperative movement and conferences. He is now teaching in Boulder, CO, but also keeping up his reporting on the cooperative movement, and a spiritually engaged progressive.

 Christoph Koettl at the New York Times: “Was a video of a chemical attack really filmed in Syria? What time of day did an airstrike happen? Which military unit was involved in a shooting in Afghanistan? Is this dramatic image of glowing clouds really showing wildfires in California?

17.09.2018 - 19.09.2018 - All Day Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Französische Straße 9 Berlin

Press Release: “Stanford University School of Medicine and Unanimous AI  presented a new study today showing that a small group of doctors, connected by intelligence algorithms that enable them to work together as a “hive mind,” could achieve higher diagnostic accuracy than the individual doctors or machine learning algorithms alone.  The technology used is called Swarm AI and it empowers networked human groups to combine their individual insight

Nithin Coca: The Platform Cooperative Japan Consortium (PCJ) is the first organization in Asia focused on promoting the idea of platform cooperatives — businesses that bring the structure of traditional cooperatives, including worker ownership and governance — to the digital world.

Skot Thayer and Alex Hern at the Guardian: “Rohingya refugees are turning to blockchain-type technology to help address one of their most existential threats: lack of officially-recognised identity.

Book by Mark A. Abramson, Daniel J. Chenok and John M. Kamensky: “In recognition of its 20th anniversary, The IBM Center for the Business of Government offers a retrospective of the most significant changes in government management during that period and looks forward over the next 20 years to offer alternative scenarios as to what government management might look like by the year 2040.

Joshua Blumenstock at Nature: “Today, 95% of the global population has mobile-phone coverage, and the number of people who own a phone is rising fast (see ‘Dialling up’)1. Phones generate troves of personal data on billions of people, including those who live on a few dollars a day.

Presentation by Prof. Donnie Maclurcan (@donmacca) of the Post Growth Institute (@postgrowth) on the Not-for-Profit World model, designed in collaboration with Jennifer Hinton (@hintojen) and Sarah Reibstein (@sarahreibstein)
Hosted at London South Bank University (@LSBU), 6th Oct., by Prof. Ros Wade (@RosWade1).
Filmed by Jeremy Williams (@jeremy_willaims) of www.makewealthhistory.org.
Event organised by Gudrun Freese (@doshorts) from www.dosustainability.com.

It is hard for me to believe, but it was one year ago today that we launched this new website!  On September 14, 2017, James Wood began our flow of news with a welcoming blog post – and just a few days later the site was heavily used as part of our massive 25th Anniversary celebration.

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The Beyond the Net Funding Programme is pleased to announce the results of our 2018 grant cycle. A total of 49 applications were received, and after a thorough reviewing process, 15 amazing projects were selected.
These projects are at the core of our mission, and will use the Internet to develop Community Networks in underserved areas, to empower women through ICT, as well as bringing awareness on Internet policies around the world.

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