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Ausschreibung für Stellen als studentische Hilfskräfte

Am Institut für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht, Zivilrechtliche Abteilung ist ab dem 1. Juni 2018 eine Stelle als
 
Studentische Hilfskraft (m/w)
mit einer Arbeitszeit von 5 Stunden / Woche zu besetzen.
Die Einstellung ist befristet. Eine längere Zusammenarbeit ist erwünscht.
 
Die Tätigkeit betrifft die Mitarbeit im Big Data Forschungsprojekt

Internationales Symposium für kardiovaskuläre Forschung

Spannende Sessions zu Epigenetik und microRNA, pluripotenten Stammzellen und kardiovaskulärer Inflammation werden durch das  Thema „Karriere in der Wissenschaft und Industrie“ in einer separaten Session aufgegriffen. Neben zahlreichen Vorträgen renommierter Gastrednerinnen und -redner wird vor allem der wissenschaftliche Nachwuchs die Möglichkeit bekommen, die eigenen Forschungsdaten in einem Vortrag oder im Rahmen einer Posterpräsentation vorzustellen.

California bill looks to preserve net-neutrality rules

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The US Senate Is on Track to Pass the Section 230 Bill. Here's What You Need to Know.

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Date published: March 14, 2018The Recorder"Daphne Keller, a former Google lawyer now at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society, agreed that the “knowingly” language is problematic. “It creates this incentive to bury your head in the sand and not try to find bad content,” she said."

SC Constitution Bench on Aadhaar – Final Hearing (Day XVI) (Part II)

In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]

Technology Landscape for Digital Identification

World Bank Report: “Robust, inclusive, and responsible identification systems can increase access to finance, healthcare, education, and other critical services and benefits. Identification systems are also key to improving efficiency and enabling innovation for public- and private-sector services, such as greater efficiency in the delivery of social safety nets and facilitating the development of digital economies.

3 nadzwyczajne rzeczy, których się nie spodziewaliśmy w czasie I Zjazdu Spółdzielni Otwartej Edukacji

W ostatni weekend (10-11 marca) po raz pierwszy spotkaliśmy się w gronie nauczycieli matematyki, którzy zdecydowali się wspólnie stworzyć coś nadzwyczajnego.

Spółdzielnia Otwartej Edukacji to nowy projekt Centrum Cyfrowego. W ramach działań Spółdzielni SpołEd będziemy zapraszać nauczycieli różnych przedmiotów do wspólnego tworzenia otwartych zasobów edukacyjnych. W pierwszej edycji projektu udział biorą matematycy i matematyczki. Więcej o projekcie można przeczytać tutaj.

Teaching Sri Lankan Girls How to Code

Girls in Technology is a community-based initiative to help increase schoolgirls’ participation in emerging Internet technology careers.

Issuing Bonds to Invest in People

Tina Rosenberg at the New York Times: “The first social impact bond began in 2010 in Peterborough, England. Investors funded a program aimed at keeping newly released short-term inmates out of prison. It reduced reoffending by 9 percent compared to a control group, exceeding its target. So investors got their money back, plus interest.

Out now: Marcello Vitali-Rosati, On Editorialization, TOD #26

We are pleased to announce the publication of On Editorialization: Structuring Space and Authority in the Digital Age by Marcello Vitali-Rosati. The 26th edition in the Theory on Demand series can be freely downloaded as pdf or epub here.

Blockchain and Digital Identity – A Good Fit?

Every time you see “Login with Facebook” or “Login with Twitter” etc. on a website or use login credentials issued by your employer or school, you’re using Identity and Access Management (IAM) technologies in the background. IAM has become central to our online interactions, but like a lot of infrastructure it’s largely invisible to users (at least when it’s well designed and implemented). IAM is evolving rapidly, the stakes are high, and enterprises face an increasingly complex and puzzling digital identity landscape.

Terremoto de Arequipa se percibió en archipiélago Juan Fernández

Especialistas del Centro Sismológico Nacional (CSN) de la Universidad de Chile explican que el terremoto de magnitud 7.0 ocurrido en las cercanías de Arequipa, Perú, se sintió en el archipiélago chileno debido a una onda "T" que se propagó por casi 2000 km en el mar hasta tocar al conjunto de islas.El terremoto de magnitud 7.0 localizado en las cercanías de Arequipa, Perú, a las 06:18 (hora local) en la madrugada del domingo 14 de enero se sintió en el archipiélago chileno de Juan Fernández, según reportes de los habitantes de las islas.

Astrónomos chilenos desarrollan técnica para estudiar halo de galaxias

El trabajo mostró a través de una técnica tomográfica una galaxia en formación cuyo gas circundante se distribuye de manera completamente irregular. La investigación, publicada en la última edición de la revista Nature, fue encabezada por el académico de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de la Universidad de Chile, Sebastián López.Una nueva técnica "made in Chile" para analizar las propiedades del gas que rodea a las galaxias fue destacada por la Revista Nature en su última edición.

Profesora del DIE obtiene el grado de "Senior Member" de la IEEE

Sandra Céspedes, profesora del Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, se transformó en la tercera profesora de nuestro país en alcanzar tal categoría en el Instituto de Ingenieros Eléctricos y Electrónicos (IEEE), asociación internacional que cuenta con alrededor de 423 mil integrantes alrededor del mundo.

U. de Chile conmemorará Día de la Mujer 2018

"Brechas de género y feminismos del siglo XXI" es el lema bajo el cual este año la Casa de Bello conmemorará el Día Internacional de la Mujer.

SC Constitution Bench on Aadhaar – Final Hearing (Day XVI) (Part – I)

In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]

The Open Data Charter’s Measurement Guide is now open for consultation!

This blogpost is co-authored by  Ana Brandusescu  and Danny Lämmerhirt, co-chairs of the Measurement and Accountability Working Group of the Open Data Charter.
The Measurement and Accountability Working Group (MAWG) is launching the public consultation phase for the draft Open Data Charter Measurement* Guide!

Ethical Concerns of and Risk Mitigation Strategies for Crowdsourcing Contests and Innovation Challenges: Scoping Review

Joseph D Tucker at the Journal of  Medical Internet Research: “Crowdsourcing contests (also called innovation challenges, innovation contests, and inducement prize contests) can be used to solicit multisectoral feedback on health programs and design public health campaigns. They consist of organizing a steering committee, soliciting contributions, engaging the community, judging contributions, recognizing a subset of contributors, and sharing with the community.

Including all voices in international data-sharing governance

Jane Kaye et al in Human Genomics: “Governments, funding bodies, institutions, and publishers have developed a number of strategies to encourage researchers to facilitate access to datasets. The rationale behind this approach is that this will bring a number of benefits and enable advances in healthcare and medicine by allowing the maximum returns from the investment in research, as well as reducing waste and promoting transparency.

The Politics of Evidence: From Evidence-Based Policy to the Good Governance of Evidence

Open Access Book by Justin Parkhurst: “There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how this influences the ways in which evidence will be used (or misused) within political areas.