Book by Virginia Eubanks: “The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years—because a new computer system interprets any mistake as “failure to cooperate.” In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thousands of homeless people in order to prioritize them for an inadequate pool of housing resources.
Kerri Wazny at the Journal of Global Health: “First coined by Howe in 2006, the field of crowdsourcing has grown exponentially. Despite its growth and its transcendence across many fields, the definition of crowdsourcing has still not been agreed upon, and examples are poorly indexed in peer–reviewed literature. Many examples of crowdsourcing have not been scaled–up past the pilot phase.
How was the state of the Internet’s routing system in 2017? Let’s take a look back using data from BGPStream. Some highlights:
By Michelle Winowatan, Andrew Young, and Stefaan Verhulst
As part of an ongoing effort to build a knowledge base for the field of opening governance by organizing and disseminating its learnings, the GovLab Selected Readings series provides an annotated and curated collection of recommended works on key opening governance topics. This selection of readings is focused on the potential of leveraging data related to gender and mobility to improve governance and
O pesquisador do Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade (CTS) da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro (FGV Direito Rio), Luca Belli, participou do Fórum sobre Governança da Internet(IGF) das Nações Unidas. O evento foi realizado em Genebra, na Suíça, entre os dias 18 e 21 de dezembro.
Nathan Yau at FlowingData: “Data is a representation of real life. It’s an abstraction, and it’s impossible to encapsulate everything in a spreadsheet, which leads to uncertainty in the numbers.
How well does a sample represent a full population? How likely is it that a dataset represents the truth? How much do you trust the numbers?
Michael Byrne at Motherboard:”… in a larger sense it’s worth wondering to what degree the larger news feed is being diluted by news stories that are not “content dense.” That is, what’s the real ratio between signal and noise, objectively speaking?
Subhash Kak in the Conversation: “Automation and artificial intelligence technologies are transforming manufacturing, corporate work and the
In 2017, the Internet Society unveiled the 2017 Global Internet Report: Paths to Our Digital Future. The interactive report identifies the drivers affecting tomorrow’s Internet and their impact on Media & Society, Digital Divides, and Personal Rights & Freedoms.
In 2017, the Internet Society unveiled the 2017 Global Internet Report: Paths to Our Digital Future. The interactive report identifies the drivers affecting tomorrow’s Internet and their impact on Media & Society, Digital Divides, and Personal Rights & Freedoms.
“From-Congress is an attempt to collect letters sent by representatives to their constituents. These letters often contain statements by the rep about positions that might otherwise be difficult to discover.
This project exists to increase the amount of transparency and accountability of representatives in their districts….
Prof. Dr. Joachim Windolf, Direktor der Klinik für Unfall- und Handchirurgie am Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf (UKD), ist neuer Präsident der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Unfallchirurgie e.V. (DGU). Damit verbunden ist die stellvertretende Präsidentschaft der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie e.V. (DGOU) für die Amtszeit bis zum 31. Dezember 2018. „Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Unfallchirurgie steht für ein nachhaltiges und erfolgreiches Engagement für die Versorgung unfallverletzter Patienten auf höchstem Niveau“, unterstreicht Windolf die Bedeutung der DGU.
W związku z Nowym Rokiem w tym numerze Kserokopii przede wszystkim cieszymy się z nowości, które pojawiły się domenie publicznej. Polecamy również podsumowanie dotyczące europejskiej reformy prawa autorskiego przygotowane przez Communię oraz sprawy dotyczące działalności Spotify i Ubera. Zachęcamy także do przeczytania artykułu na temat roszczeń prawnoautorskich dotyczących białego szumu.
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Nowy Rok, czyli nowości w domenie publicznej 2018
Eine tendenzielle Entwicklung hin zu einer stärkeren Bedeutung der Persönlichkeit des politischen Personals bezüglich der Wahlentscheidung lässt sich seit Jahrzehnten beobachten. Seit 2002 misst ein Team um den Düsseldorfer Soziologen Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rosar die Attraktivitätswerte deutscher Bundestagskandidaten und vergleicht diese mit den Wahlerfolgen. Ergebnis der Wahl 2017: Es gibt einen signifikanten und sehr substantiellen Zusammenhang zwischen der Attraktivität und dem Wahlerfolg eines Kandidaten – sowohl mit Blick auf die Erst- als auch auf die Zweitstimme.
Claudio Ogass, director del Archivo y Centro de Documentación Fech, y Daniel Andrade, presidente de la Federación hasta diciembre de este año, solicitaron al Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales, que la Casa FECh, utilizada por la Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia (DINA) como parte del aparato represivo del régimen militar de Augusto Pinochet, sea declarada como un Monumento Histórico en calidad de Sitio de Memoria.
La iniciativa, integrada por 19 instituciones pertenecientes a 13 países, busca reformular la enseñanza de la agronomía para el desarrollo de una agricultura sustentable y competitiva.
Secretly held and designed algorithms have a large power over our lives and work opportunities and are becoming a form of nefarious power that big corporations hold over us. Moreover, as Cathy O’Neil shows in this presentation, they often incorporate human biases. What can we do to resist ? Find out here.
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The Internet Society continues to deepen its engagement with the Middle East by participating in the e-AGE 2017 Conference. This was held on 2-4 December 2017 at the Arab League in Cairo, Egypt, and was organised by the Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN) and co-sponsored by the Internet Society and ICANN.
Im Oktober 2013 nahm das IRTG 1902 offiziell seine Arbeit auf. Nachdem im September 2017 die bisherige Arbeit des IRTG von den Gutachtern der DFG positiv bewertet worden war, beschloss der DFG- Bewilligungsausschuss in seiner Sitzung am 19.12.2017 die uneingeschränkte Förderung des internationalen Verbundes mit insgesamt ca. 5 Mio. Euro.