Brooklyn, New York, February 27, 2020 — Today, The Governance Lab (The GovLab) at New York University Tandon School of Engineering has opened the call for Mexican municipalities to apply to participate in its Multi-City Challenge 2020, a program that aims to solve urban problems by partnering with the people most affected by these problems – city residents.
A large proportion of India’s farmers live from growing rice, and 70% of them have farms that average smaller than 0.4 hectares – that’s roughly half the size of a football field. Even a single infection can directly endanger their livelihood. Also, in many parts of Asia diseases like bacterial blight in rice are countered by spraying antibiotics and extremely dangerous pesticides that are not approved here in Europe. This means that we urgently need efficient solutions to safeguard the livelihood and the health of the farmers in India.
From advocates, politicians and technologists, calls for doing something about big tech grow louder by the day. Yet concrete ideas are few or failing to reach the mainstream.
This post covers what breaking up big tech would mean and why it’s not enough. I propose an open intervention that will give people a real choice and a way out of controlled walled gardens. Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple are not natural monopolies and we need to regulate them to support competition and alternative business models.
What’s the problem?
In Indien lebt ein großer Teil der Bauern vom Reisanbau, 70 Prozent von ihnen haben durchschnittliche Feldgrößen von weniger als 0,4 Hektar – dies ist halb so groß wie ein Fußballfeld. Eine einzige Infektion gefährdet direkt die Existenz. Hinzu kommt, dass zum Beispiel die Weißblättrigkeit – eine bakterielle Erkrankung – in Asien an vielen Orten durch Sprühen von Antibiotika und extrem gefährlichen Pestiziden, die hier nicht zugelassen sind, bekämpft wird. Daher werden dringend effiziente Lösungen benötigt, um die Existenz und Gesundheit der indischen Bauern zu sichern.
Die junge Frauengeneration in Deutschland verfügt über eine besonders gute Schulbildung: Trotzdem entscheiden sich Mädchen im Rahmen ihrer Ausbildungs- und Studienwahl noch immer häufig für "typisch weibliche" Berufsfelder oder Studienfächer. Somit schöpfen sie ihre Berufsmöglichkeiten nicht voll aus, und das, obwohl die Aussichten für eine spätere berufliche Karriere in Berufen mit diesen Grundlagen gut sind.
MINT-Studiengänge an der HHU
Im Projekt LipoBiocat („Robuste und selektive lipolytische Biokatalysatoren für industrielle Anwendungen“) forschen Mikrobiologen, organische Chemiker, Strukturbiologen und Bioinformatiker an Biokatalysatoren zur Herstellung von Feinchemikalien und Polymeren. Enzyme sind solche Biokatalysatoren, die zahlreiche Reaktionen beschleunigen oder erst ermöglichen. In der Natur arbeiten sie allerdings in lebenden Zellen und damit bei vergleichsweise milden Reaktionsbedingungen, während in industriellen Prozessen harschere Bedingungen vorherrschen.
Estudio del Centro de Microdatos de la Universidad de Chile arrojó una tasa de desempleo que equivale a 296.331 personas desocupadas. Esta cantidad corresponde a quienes reportaron estar desocupados durante la semana comprendida entre el 8 y 14 de diciembre de 2019. En esta medición, los jóvenes entre 14 a 24 años, presentan la tasa de desempleo más alta, llegando al 24,1 por ciento.
Yesterday I submitted a second set of comments (see the bottom of this post for a copy) to the California Attorney General’s office for the February round of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) rulemaking process.
More than 600 of the world’s leading Internet engineers from 60 economies gathered last week at APRICOT, and it was encouraging to see routing security take center stage in the largest meeting of the technical community in the region.
The Internet Society is a long-time partner of the annual event, also called the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies, and this year we held two community gatherings, spoke in several sessions, and ran a booth throughout the conference.
Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter au prochain colloque sur le thème : Frugalité numérique : exploiter les technologies pour faire mieux avec moins, qui aura lieu le jeudi 12 mars 2020 à partir 9h00. Les conférenciers-es invités-es sont :
Dre. Stéphanie Cadeddu, H-pod, CR-CHUM, CRDP – UdeM.
Dre. Caroline Roux, Concordia University.
Pr. Suchit Ahuja, Concordia University.
Pre. Paola Gonzalez, Dalhousie University.
Le CRDP a le plaisir de vous inviter à une conférence sur le thème : Transitional Equality qui se tiendra le 30 mars 2020 à 16h30. La conférencière invitée est:
Prof. Suzanne A. Kim, Professor & Judge Denny Chin Scholar Rutgers Law School Rutgers University (New Jersey).
Résumé (en français):
BKC faculty associate Jennifer Jenkins on the differences between European and US copyright law when it comes to the rights of musicians:
“[In the US,] after 35 years, eligible authors can serve notice and get their rights back. At the end of the day, they give the artist a second bite of the apple.”
evelyn douek reviews a recent white paper from Facebook on online content moderation.
“Regulation is coming, and almost everyone—including Facebook—now seems to accept this is a good thing,” says douek. “But two wrongs do not make a right, and regulators themselves should not move fast and break things. The questions and concerns that Facebook raises in this white paper are real and difficult, and regulators should take them seriously.”
Elizabeth Renieris weighed in on why we should not celebrate Google's move to remove third-party cookies from Chrome.
“They’re not really changing underlying tactics [of how they track us], they’re just channeling it all through Google,” Renieris said. “How privacy-preserving is this, actually? What’s Google’s motivation for doing this? Is it to preserve privacy? Potentially, but probably not.”
Leonard Cortana on why France’s entry for the Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards, Les Misérables, should be inscribed in the history of French cinema:
On Monday, the manager of Facebook’s Global Affairs and Governance team joined BKC's Jonathan Zittrain, Evelyn Douek, and Julie Owono to answer questions about its new Oversight Board.
How can putting marginalized people at the very center of design and technology change the world for the better? Sasha Costanza-Chock discusses their book, Design Justice.
Based on the information available today, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) estimates the health risk in Germany to be low to moderate. However, as a preventive measure the management of HHU recommends that persons returning from a trip to China remain at home for a period of 14 days – and work from there if necessary. In any case, anyone suffering from an infectious, flu-like, disease should stay at home and refrain from coming to HHU.
