When was the first co-operative or mutual? The spread of customer owned co-operatives in nineteenth century Britain is well-known and celebrated. Yet there are also precursors of co-operation and mutuality before this in countries right across the world.
In his new book, Ed Mayo brings together this rich story for the first time in A short history of co-operation and mutuality.
Covering everything from the Commons to lending circles to labourer societies, this is a fresh take on the origins of co-operation form a leading voice in the global co-operative movement.

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 […]

Report from the Commission on the Future of Localism (UK): “…When we think about power we tend to look upwards – towards Westminster-based institutions and elected politicians. Those who wish to see greater localism often ask politicians to give it away and push power downwards. But this is looking at things the wrong way round. Instead, we need to start with the power of community. The task of our political system should be to support this, harness it, and reflect it in our national debate.

Kirk Bansak, et al in Science Magazine: “Developed democracies are settling an increased number of refugees, many of whom face challenges integrating into host societies. We developed a flexible data-driven algorithm that assigns refugees across resettlement locations to improve integration outcomes. The algorithm uses a combination of supervised machine learning and optimal matching to discover and leverage synergies between refugee characteristics and resettlement sites.

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Author(s): Daphne KellerPublication Date: January 23, 2018Publication Type: Other Writing

Kyle Duggan at iPolitics: “The national statistics agency is launching a crowdsourcing project to find out how much weed Canadians are consuming and how much it costs them.
Statistics Canada is searching for the best picture of consumption it can find ahead of legalization, and is turning to average Canadians to improve its rough estimates about a product that’s largely been accessed illegally by the population.

Cass R. Sunstein in Special Issue on Evaluating Nudging of the Missouri Law Journal: “It can be paternalistic to force people to choose. Often people do not wish to choose, but both private and public institutions ask or force them to do so, thus overriding their wishes. As a result, people’s autonomy may be badly compromised and their welfare may be greatly reduced.

Paper by Vanessa Herringshaw: “Narratives in the field of information and communications technology (ICT) for governance are full of claims, of either enormous success or almost none. But understanding ‘success’ and ‘failure’ depends on how these are framed. Research supported by Making All Voices Count suggests that different actors can seek very different goals from the same ICT-enabled interventions – some stated, some not.

Originally posted on Forbes on January 23, 2018.

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featuring Jonas Kaiser, Berkman Klein Affiliate

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In this talk, Berkman Klein affiliate Jonas Kaiser will share some of his research on the networked public sphere. "The right-wing is rising. Not only in the United States but also in Germany and other European countries. And the internet helped," he writes.

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Berkman Klein Luncheon Series

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Mitesh S. Patel et al in The New England Journal of Medicine: “The final common pathway for the application of nearly every advance in medicine is human behavior. No matter how effective a drug, how protective a vaccine, or how targeted a therapy may be, a clinician usually has to prescribe it, and a patient accept and use it as directed, for it to improve health.

Our short animation explains the purpose and importance of our flagship project at the CMPF, The Media Pluralism Monitor. Please consider sharing to help us raise awareness about the importance of media pluralism and freedom to democracy.
 

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On Friday 10th November 2017 the CMPF hosted a workshop on the Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) application featuring many of the experts who contributed research and data for the project. Held at the European University Institute in Florence, the conference focused on the application of the 2017 monitor which includes some reports from the 28 member countries of European Union as well as Turkey, Serbia, and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Recorded during the CMPF Summer School for Journalists and Media Practitioners, 5-9 June 2017. Our invited international speakers reflect on some of the challenges facing journalists and media practitioners regarding the proliferation of fake news and propaganda.
 

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Paper by Koen Leurs & Sandra Ponzanesi at Special Issue on Connected Migrants of Popular Communications: “Taking a cue from Dana Diminescu’s seminal manifesto on “the connected migrant,” this special issue introduces the notions of encapsulation and cosmopolitanism to unders

Der beliebte Kalender „VäterZEIT 2018“ ist noch in kleiner Auflage beim FamilienBeratungsBüro erhältlich. Auf dem beliebten Wandkalender sind Väter der Universität und des Universitätsklinikums mit ihren Kindern abgebildet. Der Kalender schmückt schon viele Büros und kann kostenlos beim FamilienBeratungsBüro (Gebäude 16.11. Raum 00.76) abgeholt werden.

The CMPF runs a yearly Summer School at our headquarters just outside Florence in the Tuscan hills of Fiesole. Meet some of 2017’s international participants and invited speakers.
For more on the CMPF Summer School for journalists, click here.
 

Beth Noveck in Forbes: “The way Congress makes law is simply no longer viable. In David Schoenbrod’s recent book DC Confidential, he outlines “five tricks” politicians use to take credit in front of television cameras in order to further political party agendas while passing the blame and the buck to future generations for bad legislation.

The three videos in this playlist feature interviews with some of the international guest speakers from our 2016 Journalism Summer School including, Gillian Phillips (The Guardian, UK), Kristina Cendic (Centre for Media Law, Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Silvia Chocarro Marcesse (Radio France Inter).
For more on the Summer School click here.