Science Trends: “Located at the complex intersection of economic development and environmental change, cities play a central role in our efforts to move towards sustainability. Reducing air and water pollution, improving energy efficiency while securing energy supply, and minimizing vulnerabilities to disruptions and disturbances are interconnected and pose a formidable challenge, with their dynamic interactions changing in highly complex and unpredictable manners….

Essay by Sean Martin McDonald, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, & Katja Lindskov Jacobsen in the Stanford Social Innovation Review: “Humanitarian organizations have an almost impossible task: They must balance the imperative to save lives with the commitment to do no harm.

Study by L’Aterlier BNP Paribas: “In the US, only 57% of the total voting population voted during the last American presidential elections. Nowadays, 1.57 million civic organizations encourage the American people to express their concerns to the government and public authorities outside of ballot boxes. The internet has indeed created other ways to mobilize people.

Sharon Fisher at HPE: “The notion of “open government” appeals to both citizens and IT professionals seeking access to freely available government data. But is there such a thing as data access being too open? Governments may want to be transparent, yet they need to avoid releasing personally identifiable information.

O professor da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro (FGV Direito Rio), Evandro Menezes de Carvalho, foi premiado pela China Radio International (CRI) na categoria artigo de opinião do prêmio anual de Jornalismo.  A análise "As Duas Sessões e a promoção do Estado de Direito na China" foi considerada a terceira melhor do ano pela emissora de radiodifusão internacional chinesa, vinculada ao governo. 

Pricing Review Shows They Provide Least-Expensive Local "Broadband"

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Our examination of advertised prices shows that community-owned fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks in the United States generally charge less for entry-level broadband service than do competing private providers, and don’t use initial low “teaser” rates that sharply rise months later. 

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Anjana Ahuja in the Financial Times: “Population counts are important tools for development, but also politically fraught…The UN describes a census as “among the most complex and massive peacetime exercises a nation undertakes”. Given that social trends, migration patterns and inequalities can be determined from questions that range from health to wealth, housing and even religious beliefs, censuses can also be controversial. So it is with the next one in the US, due to be conducted in 2020.

Artificial intelligence technology has increasingly found applications in the area of content moderation and communication governance on digital platforms. What are the risks for online expression? What future impact will... MORE
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Das Mutterschutzgesetz (MuSchG) gilt seit Beginn dieses Jahres auch ausdrücklich für Studentinnnen. Diese sollten eine Schwangerschaft daher frühzeitig bei der verantwortlichen Leitung von Lehrveranstaltungen (z.B. Labortätigkeit, Praktikum, Exkursion) anzeigen und ihren Prüfungsausschuss informieren. So können die Schutzvorschriften greifen und eventuelle Nachteile oder Beeinträchtigungen vermieden werden.
Mit dem Merkblatt "Mutterschutz im Studium" informiert die HHU werdende Mütter über alle wichtigen Aspekte hierzu.

El director del Centro Sismológico Nacional (CSN) de la Universidad de Chile forma parte del equipo de académicos, investigadores y artistas que se desplegará en enero de 2018 en Ancud y Curaco de Vélez en el marco de la Escuela de Temporada "Hacia un territorio sustentable: diálogos sobre identidades, culturas y patrimonios".

Este jueves, el Rector Ennio Vivaldi llegó hasta la actividad realizada en la Facultad de Economía y Negocios (FEN), a un día de que cierre sus puertas.

"Los cimientos, los pilares y el firmamento" es la exhibición colectiva que reúne obras experimentales en torno a distintos elementos, como el litio, granito, madera y deshechos, abordando la vinculación y valoración de éstos en la vida cotidiana. La muestra, curada por Àngels Miralda, es el resultado de su investigación realizada durante su estadía en Chile como residente de Molten Capital.

Las profesoras de la Facultad de Ciencias, Rosalba Lagos y Mary Kalin, además del académico de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas y presidente de CONICYT, Mario Hamuy, fueron nombrados oficialmente para integrar dicha instancia perteneciente al Instituto de Chile, en una ceremonia realizada el miércoles 20 de diciembre.En reconocimiento a sus destacadas trayectorias en el ámbito científico, la Academia de Ciencias de Chile, creada en 1964, nombró recientemente a tres académicos de nuestro plantel como nuevos Miembros de Número, que actualmente llegan a 32 y cuya

Ed Mayo: In a sparsely populated country with a short summer and long, hard winter, the idea of people working together for a common interest comes naturally. As a result there are more member-owners of co-operative enterprises in Finland than there are people. The average adult is a member of two co-operatives; those in a rural setting, such as farmers, are likely to be a member of four.

Wer kann am besten reden, hat die die überzeugendsten Argumente und vertritt seine Position am glaubhaftesten? Studierende der HHU treten in Duisburg bei der dritten Auflage von "NRW debattiert Europa" gegen Teams aus sechs weiteren NRW-Universitäten an. Wortgefechte sind in der Königsdisziplin der Rhetorik garantiert.

This text follows my recent keynote at Seoul Smart Mobility International Conference. The author thanks 
Seoul Design Foundation and @Seoul_gov  for their invitation. I also thank XuanZheng Wang, professor, China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), for alerting me to the @Mobike developments.

Would you be interested in helping guide the future of the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the non-profit operator of the .ORG, .NGO and .ONG domains? If so, the Internet Society is seeking nominations for three positions on the PIR Board of Directors. The nominations deadline is 23:00 UTC on Thursday, February 1, 2018.

Paper by I. Glenn Cohen and Harry Graver: “Big data” has become the ubiquitous watchword of this decade. Predictive analytics, which is something we want to do with big data — to use of electronic algorithms to forecast future events in real time.

Essay by Peter Levine: “In some ways, I came of age in the field of deliberative democracy. I had an internship at the Kettering Foundation when I was a college sophomore (when the foundation defined itself more purely in deliberative terms than it does today). By that time, I had already taken a philosophy seminar on the great deliberative theorist Jürgen Habermas. In the three decades since then, I’ve served on the boards of Kettering, Everyday Democracy, and AmericaSPEAKS.