Paper by Sandra Wachter: “In the Internet of Things (IoT), identification and access control technologies provide essential infrastructure to link data between a user’s devices with unique identities, and provide seamless and linked up services.

We recognized a problem. There are so many individuals and small teams with good ideas out there, but there is little to no financial support. We wanted to change that. This is how the idea for the Prototype Fund came to life.

Daniela Blei in the Atlantic: “…The index card was a product of the Enlightenment, conceived by one of its towering figures: Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist, physician, and the father of modern taxonomy. But like all information systems, the index card had unexpected political implications, too: It helped set the stage for categorizing people, and for the prejudice and violence that comes along with such classification….

Billie Jeanne Brownlee at Cyber Orient: “Six years have gone by since the political upheaval that swept through many Middle East and North African (MENA) countries begun. Syria was caught in the grip of this revolutionary moment, one that drove the country from a peaceful popular mobilisation to a deadly fratricide civil war with no apparent way out.

Prof. Dr. Nikolas Guggenberger, LL.M. (Stanford) wird im Sommersemester 2018 ein Seminar zum Thema
Blockchain und Automatisierung von Recht
veranstalten. Die Vorbesprechung und Themenvergabe für das Seminars findet am 10. Januar 2018 um 18 Uhr im Arbeitsraum des ITM (3. OG, links) statt. Nur Teilnehmer dieser Vorbesprechung können als Teilnehmer für das Seminar berücksichtigt werden. Folgende Themen stehen zur Auswahl:
Blockchain/virtuelle Währungen

Tom Symons at Nesta’s Predictions for 2018: “As the world changes, people expect their governments and public services to do so too. When it’s easy to play computer games with someone on the other side of the world, or set up a company bank account in five minutes, there is an expectation that paying taxes, applying for services or voting should be too…..

Tracking cell phone by number

The many shows from Facebook or myspace&Number8217s VR occasion

• Spy apps
• Tracking location of cell phone
• Windows phone tracking app
• Track my phone number now
• How do i stop someone from tracking my phone
• Tracking teenage cell phone
• Top spy apps
• Track my husbands phone without him knowing

Der französische Hochschulattaché Dr. habil. Landry Charrier hat am 12. Dezember die HHU besucht. Prorektorin Prof. Dr. Andrea von Hülsen-Esch lud zu dem Termin auch Vertreter aller Fakultäten ein, die bei dieser Gelegenheit ihre Wünsche in Bezug auf die Ausgestaltung der Kooperationen mit Frankreich eingebracht haben.

Book edited by Ayse Kok: “As is true in most aspects of daily life, the expansion of government in the modern era has included a move to a technologically-based system. A method of evaluation for such online governing systems is necessary for effective political management worldwide.

Report by John B. Stephens: “Civic technology is an emergent area of practice where IT experts and citizens without specialized IT skills volunteer their time using government-provided open data to improve government services or otherwise create public benefit. Civic tech, as it is often referred to, draws on longer-standing practices, particularly e-government and civic engagement.

Fredrik O. Andersson in the Conversation: “Although entrepreneurially minded donors would benefit from expert guidance on how to spot the outfits most likely to succeed, there’s been virtually no research on this question. As a scholar focusing on how new nonprofits are founded and develop, I believe two shortcomings in how research regarding nonprofit startups gets done create this gap.

A partir de la firma de un convenio y de la reunión sostenida este miércoles 5 de diciembre entre autoridades e investigadores de ambos planteles en Punta Arenas, proyectos relacionados a la telemedicina, la educación en matemáticas y el procesamiento de datos que ya se encuentran en marcha buscarán promover el alcance del proyecto "Fibra Óptica Austral", que entrará en vigencia el 2020, apuntando a que el impacto de esta infraestructura en la ciudadanía vaya más allá del mejoramiento de la conexión a Internet.

Con este acto se inició el ciclo de entrega dichos documentos, encomendados a nueve comisiones específicas en el marco de la Etapa de Evaluación Interna Institucional, la cual involucra a la comunidad universitaria en todos sus niveles. Los insumos corresponden a los primeros borradores que serán sometidos a revisión a cargo de la Comisión Asesora.

El representante del plantel sueco para la región destacó a nuestro país como un aliado estratégico por su estabilidad política y económica, y entregó su visión respecto a los principales desafíos de Chile en materia de educación e investigación.

Since 2015 Open Knowledge International has been part of the consortium of RouteToPA, a European innovation project aimed at improving citizen engagement by enabling meaningful interaction between open data users, open data publishers and open data. In the ROUTETOPA case study series, we shine a light on public administrations, organizations and communities that have adopted and are using ROUTETOPA tools for work and discussions around open data.

It is not widely known that the law regards virtually all artifacts of human creativity as private property from the moment they are created. Scribble a doodle, record a few guitar riffs, and copyright law treats the resulting “works” as a kind of private property over which you may retain legal control for the rest of your lifetime plus seventy years.

A PhD Thesis: Self-organisation in Commons-Based Peer Production (Drupal: “the drop is always moving”) by David Rozas. University of Surrey, Department of Sociology, Centre for Research in Social Simulation, 2017.
Abstract

Robin Murray’s life and work has been celebrated recently in London at an RSA event that Awarded him the Albert Medal for social innovation and co-operative change. The tributes by Ed Mayo and others at the Award ceremony are wonderful and on this riveting video followed up by tributes from the floor. The following text is republished from the RSA’s website.
About the event
The 2017 Albert Medal is awarded posthumously to Robin Murray for pioneering work in social innovation.

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Vanessa Teague, Chris Culnane and Ben Rubinstein in PhysOrg: “In August 2016, Australia’s federal Department of Health published medical billing records of about 2.9 million Australians online. These records came from the Medicare Benefits Scheme (MBS) and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) containing 1 billion lines of historical health data from the records of around 10 per cent of the population.