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Stefaan G. Verhulst at Disrupt & Innovate: “The need for innovation is clear: The twenty-first century is shaping up to be one of the most challenging in recent history. From climate change to income inequality to geopolitical upheaval and terrorism: the difficulties confronting International Civil Society Organisations (ICSOs) are unprecedented not only in their variety but also in their complexity. At the same time, today’s practices and tools used by ICSOs seem stale and outdated.

Last week the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany (OKFDE) and AlgorithmWatch launched the project OpenSCHUFA. Inspired by OKF Finland and the „mydata“ project, OpenSCHUFA is the first„mydata“ project by OKFDE. Over the last 7 days, the campaign generated Germany-wide media attention, and already over 8.000 individual Schufa data request (30.000 personal data requests in total).

Proteine sind zentrale Bausteine jedes lebenden Organismus, sie dienen sowohl als Strukturmaterial als auch als Botenstoffe im Körper. Diese Proteine setzen sich ihrerseits aus einzelnen Aminosäurebausteinen zusammen. Der Bauplan, nach dem der Körper sie herstellt, ist im genetischen Code hinterlegt.

In times of fake news and post-truth politics, the internet acts as catalyst, multiplying the impact of falsities and further blurring the boundary between fact and fiction. In this longform Davide Banis asked himself how to make sense of the relationship between any representational media and reality. And…what is ‘fictiocracy’?
We proudly present our latest longform Fictiocracy: Media and Politics in the Age of Storytelling by Davide Banis

CMPF Scientific Coordinator, Elda Brogi and Project Assistant, Luc Steinberg have penned an op-ed on the net neutrality debate in the EU and US for the EUI Times. Following the Federal Communication Commission’s decision to repeal net neutality in the US in December 2017, the article explores the potential implications for the open web in the US and EU.
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The public sphere metaphor was always contested and this continues in the digital realm. While “old” debates on access, inequality and power continue, the so-called platform society has taken concerns... MORE
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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 […]

Ramy Ghorayeb: “When it comes to civic tech, there is a clear opposition between the fans, who view the young sector as a key foundation that will change democracy for good, and the haters, who think it is simply a gadget that doesn’t have any weight on political decisions considering its position towards the existing powers/counter-powers.

Michael Carolan at GeoForum: “The paper takes a critical look at how food retail firms use big data, looking specifically at how these techniques and technologies govern our ability to imagine food worlds.

Paper by Sofia C. Olhede and Patrick J. Wolfe in Statistics & Probability Letters: “The Danish physicist Niels Bohr is said to have remarked: “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future”. Predicting the future of statistics in the era of big data is not so very different from prediction about anything else.

Dans le cadre du cycle de conférences Jeunes chercheurs, la Chaire LexUM en information juridique accueille Émilie Mouchard qui présentera une conférence qui s’intitule « Le privacywashing ».
Présentation de la conférence :

Réguler des ressources limitées en santé : nouvelles perspectives

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Originally published in Forbes on February 20, 2018. Read the article here.
A review of Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age, Matthew J. Salganik, Princeton University Press, 2017. 445 pp.
Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age (2017).
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In this Internet Monitor research bulletin, Berkman Klein Center Affiliate Simin Kargar analyzes the effectiveness of the Iranian government’s campaign to encourage domestic content consumption and hosting through its National Information Network.

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This two-part, semi-gothic literary essay seeks a provisional definition of “benevolent capital” and a working description of types of artistic and scholarly work that have no value for Capital as such. The paradox observed is that such works may actually appeal to a certain aspect of Capital, insofar as present-day capitalism has within it forms of pre-modern political economy that may actually save Capital from its mad rush toward self-immolation.
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Bereits seit 2013 lädt die HHU zusammen mit der Bezirksregierung Düsseldorf und der Industrie- und Handelskammer zu Düsseldorf Lehrerinnen und Lehrer an die Universität ein. Im Mittelpunkt der jährlichen Lehrerfortbildung stehen die Fächer Biologie, Chemie, Informatik, Mathematik und Physik. Die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer erfahren aus erster Hand, wie sich die Wissenschaft in ihren Fächern weiterentwickelt.

Introduction to “Perspective”: “Discussing things you care about can be difficult. The threat of abuse and harassment online means that many people stop expressing themselves and give up on seeking different opinions….Perspective is an API that makes it easier to host better conversations. The API uses machine learning models to score the perceived impact a comment might have on a conversation.