Lydia Morgan[1] Despite Security Minister Ben Wallace’s attempts to downplay it,[2] the Court of Appeal’s ruling in the Watson case (SSHD v Watson & others)[3] continues the drip of cases finding the Government’s draconian attempt to access bulk communications data
The Internet Society Nominations Committee has announced the candidate slates for Chapter and Organization Member elections for the Board of Trustees. Find out who the candidates are.
The post Slates of candidates announced for 2018 Internet Society Board of Trustees elections appeared first on Internet Society.
Eine Vielzahl von Mikroorganismen lebt in und auf Pflanzen, unterstützt diese etwa bei der Umsetzung von Nährstoffen, schützt sie, kann sie aber auch in Form von Krankheitserregern schädigen. Die Gesamtheit all dieser Mikroorganismen einer gesunden Pflanze bezeichnet man als Mikrobiom. Wie sich dieses unter verschiedenen Umweltbedingungen entwickelt, interessiert Dr. Ruben Garrido-Oter. Er hat dazu Computermodelle entwickelt und diese für biologische Fragestellungen angewandt.
2017 was one of the most active hurricane seasons in the Caribbean on record. Five months after the major storms Irma and Marie devastated parts of the Caribbean, there are still far too many people without access to the Internet and everything it offers.
The G20 member states account for 85 percent of the global economy and are home to half of the world’s Internet users. From artificial intelligence to personal data protections, our physical world is being shaped by our digital world. As current president of the G20, Argentina has put a range of digital challenges on the table. But to tackle these, we need credible commitments and a long-term roadmap.
Der Dekan der Fakultät, Prof. Dr. Nikolaj Klöcker, übergibt 84 Human- und sieben Zahnmedizinern und – medizinerinnen ihre Promotionsurkunden. Traditionell werden auch die Goldpromovenden geehrt, in diesem Fall aus dem Promotionsjahrgang 1967, die das 50. Jubiläum ihrer Promotion feiern. Sie erhalten spezielle Goldpromotionsurkunden, dazu den eigenen handschriftlichen(!) Lebenslauf und das Gutachten zu ihrer Doktorarbeit.
Our friends at Artfarm in Hvar pinged us to highlight their donations campaign. Read the text below to get a feel for their project, or visit them at the fantastically named starwingartists.com
ArtFarm: Since 2013, when we bought 1300 m2 of land and small stone house, Artfarm has been our international project combining art and organic agriculture on the Croatian island of Hvar.
Ob der richtige Zugang zum Thema fehlt, die Fülle der Informationen erdrückend oder alles andere gerade wichtiger erscheint – die Probleme bei Anfertigen von Hausarbeiten sind mannigfaltig. Bei der Schreibnacht wird diesen begegnet. Angeboten werden neun Workshops und individuelle Beratung. Dabei geht es um "Aufschieberitis", Zeitmanagement, Literaturrecherche und -verwaltung, Academic English und vieles mehr.
Bitcoin was created to be a new kind of money rooted in a vision of a market not bound by geography, banks and governments. Despite the intentions of its creators, Bitcoin is not money. It was designed with a faulty understanding of money, and as a result has a bug, a kind of a short circuit that kick-started an asset bubble and that will eventually turn Bitcoin into a toxic asset. In order to to fix this bug we need to employ the labour theory of value.
Segundo painel “Perfis dos litígios transnacionais de internet e atuação das autoridades brasileiras” do Workshop Interinstitucional de Pesquisa: Jurisdição e cooperação jurídica internacional nos conflitos da internet.
This series of short video interviews highlights the new 2017-2018 Berkman Klein fellows. Check back every week for new additions!
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 […]
„Nachdenken über das Eigene und das Fremde“ wollte Gauck in seinem Vortrag und Rektorin Steinbeck führte ins Thema ein: „In unserer heutigen globalen Welt gilt mehr denn je, dass Kulturen keine homogenen und konsistenten Einheiten sind. Kulturen sind keine Behälter, in denen sich einheitliche kollektive Lebensweisen finden. Kulturen sind lebendige Gebilde, die sich gegenseitig befruchten, austauschen und immer in Veränderung begriffen sind.“
The Economist: “The latest edition of The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index records the worst decline in global democracy in years. Not a single region recorded an improvement in its average score since 2016, as countries grapple with increasingly divided electorates. Freedom of expression in particular is facing new challenges from both state and non-state actors, and is a special focus of this year’s report.
Nicholas Confessore, Gabriel J.X. Dance, Richard Harris And Mark Hansen in The New York Times: “…Fake accounts, deployed by governments, criminals and entrepreneurs, now infest social media networks.
Introduction by Julia Lane and Andrew Reamer of a Special Issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: “Throughout the United States, there is broad interest in expanding the nation’s capacity to design and implement public policy based on solid evidence. That interest has been stimulated by the new types of data that are available that can transform the way in which policy is designed and implemented.
Book by Jerry Z. Muller on “How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and government…
Hintergrund: Regelmäßiger Sport hat einen positiven Einfluss auf die kognitive Leistungsfähigkeit bei Patienten mit leichten kognitiven Störungen im Alter. Dies ergab eine Auswertung von Studiendaten aus den USA, die in die neuen Leitlinien der American Academy of Neurology aufgenommen wurden.