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Conferenza Nexa su Internet & Società 2018

Page Type: conferenzaEvent18 dicembre 2018
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Über 4.000 Studienanfänger an der HHU

Die Heinrich-Heine-Universität versteht sich als Bürgeruniversität, die besonderen Wert darauf legt, sich gegenüber der Gesellschaft zu öffnen. Als dialogorientierte und transparente Forschungsstätte und Bildungseinrichtung sucht sie aktiv den Austausch zwischen Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft, um einen möglichst breiten Zugang der Öffentlichkeit zu Forschung und Bildung zu ermöglichen.

The Week in Internet News: AI Can Help, But Humans Are the Problem with Fake News

AI battles the fake news: Can Artificial Intelligence combat all the fake news that’s out there? An article in Forbes looks at several ways fake news fighters are using AI, but the author casts some doubt on these approaches. Ultimately, humans are the problem, the article says: “The willingness to believe sensational information is a real phenomenon and debunking false information does not always change people’s minds.”

Text Analysis Systems Mine Workplace Emails to Measure Staff Sentiments

Alan Rothman at LLRX: “…For all of these good, bad or indifferent workplaces, a key question is whether any of the actions of management to engage the staff and listen to their concerns ever resulted in improved working conditions and higher levels of job satisfaction?

Open Government Data Report: Enhancing Policy Maturity for Sustainable Impact

Report by the OECD: This report provides an overview of the state of open data policies across OECD member and partner countries, based on data collected through the OECD Open Government Data survey (2013, 2014, 2016/17), country reviews and comparative analysis. The report analyses open data policies using an analytical framework that is in line with the OECD OUR data Index and the International Open Data Charter.

Craft metrics to value co-production

Liz Richardson and Beth Perry at Nature: “Advocates of co-production encourage collaboration between professional researchers and those affected by that research, to ensure that the resulting science is relevant and useful. Opening up science beyond scientists is essential, particularly where problems are complex, solutions are uncertain and values are salient.

Desire paths: the illicit trails that defy the urban planners

Ellie Violet Bramley at The Guardian: “We’ve all been there. You want a short cut – to the bus stop, office or corner shop – but there’s no designated path. Others before you have already flattened the grass, or cut a line through a hedge. Why not, you think.

Whither large International Non-Governmental Organisations?

Working Paper by Penny Lawrence: “Large international non-government organisations (INGOs) seem to be in an existential crisis in their role in the fight for social justice. Many, such as Save the Children or Oxfam, have become big well-known brands with compliance expectations similar to big businesses. Yet the public still imagine them to be run by volunteers. Their context is changing so fast, and so unpredictably, that they are struggling to keep up.

Renovating democracy from the bottom up

Nathan Gardels at the Washington Post: “The participatory power of social media is a game changer for governance. It levels the playing field among amateurs and experts, peers and authorities and even challenges the legitimacy of representative government. Its arrival coincides with and reinforces the widespread distrust of elites across the Western world, ripening the historical moment for direct democracy.

Institutsbibliothek am 15.10.2018 geschlossen

Die Bibliothek des ITM bleibt am 15.10.2018 aufgrund von Umbaumaßnahmen ganztägig geschlossen.

Einladung zur ABIDA-Gutachterfachtagung am 17. und 18. Oktober in Berlin

Am 17. und 18. Oktober 2018 findet in Berlin die Gutachterfachtagung „Big Data: intelligente Datenanalyse für die Datenökonomie“ des vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) geförderten interdisziplinären Forschungsprojekts Assessing Big Data (ABIDA) statt.

Democracy Disconnected: Participation and Governance in a City of the South

Book by Fiona Anciano and Laurence Piper: “Why is dissatisfaction with local democracy endemic, despite the spread of new participatory institutions? This book argues that a key reason is the limited power of elected local officials, especially to produce the City. City Hall lacks control over key aspects of city decision-making, especially under conditions of economic globalisation and rapid urbanisation in the urban South.

Budapest, Hungary: Cargo-Bikes Reduce Transport Emissions, Build Alternative Economy

Since 2015, Budapest-based Cargonomia has acted as a sustainable urban transport centre and local organic food distribution point through its cargo-bike messenger service, bicycle-building cooperative, family-scale organic vegetable farm, organic bakery, wine distributor and network of citizen volunteers.
An open farm day tour in Zsambok’s Organic Garden, Cargonomia’s organic farming partner. Credit – Logan Strenchock

Karissa McKelvey on the Web of Commons

Karissa McKelvey from the Dat Project provides an overview of the new decentralized Internet and the need to insert commons thinking and practices into this new space. This text is based on Karissa’s2017 Full Stack Fest’s keynote and was originally published in the Dat Project’s Blog.

What is machine learning?

Chris Meserole at Brookings: “In the summer of 1955, while planning a now famous workshop at Dartmouth College, John McCarthy coined the term “artificial intelligence” to describe a new field of computer science. Rather than writing programs that tell a computer how to carry out a specific task, McCarthy pledged that he and his colleagues would instead pursue algorithms that could teach themselves how to do so.

​MIT, SMART and NTU Singapore scientists have discovered a potential treatment for severe malaria

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Orquesta Sinfónica y Camerata Vocal interpretarán a Haydn

"Las siete últimas palabras de Cristo en la cruz", obra religiosa escrita por Joseph Haydn será dirigida este fin de semana por el titular de la orquesta, maestro Leonid Grin, y en ella participarán como solistas Claudia Pereira, Ana Navarro, Felipe Catalán, y David Gáez, todos miembros de la Camerata Vocal.

UAbierta ofrecerá curso online gratuito sobre arte y paisaje sonoro

Financiado por el Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio, el curso en línea "Paisaje Sonoro: escucha, experiencia y cotidianidad" busca despertar nuevas formas de comprender y apreciar su entorno sonoro.

Plan Impulso Araucanía: académicos evalúan la propuesta del Ejecutivo

Reconocer constitucionalmente a los pueblos indígenas, establecer una ley de cuotas de participación política y mejorar las condiciones de vida en la región, son algunos de los anuncios realizados este lunes como parte de este plan. Pero, ¿cuál será la bajada de dichas propuestas y cómo quedarán plasmadas en la institucionalidad?

Why Is Behavioral Economics So Popular?

David Gal at the New York Times: “Behavioral economics seems to have captured the popular imagination.