David Nersessian at Business Horizons: “The Economist recently declared that digital information has overtaken oil as the world’s most valuable commodity. Big data technology is inherently global and borderless, yet little international consensus exists over what standards should govern its use. One source of global standards benefitting from considerable international consensus might be used to fill the gap: international human rights law.

Book by William Davies: “Why do we no longer trust experts, facts and statistics? Why has politics become so fractious and warlike? What caused the populist political upheavals of recent years?How can the history of ideas help us understand our present?

Die Internationale Liga für Wettbewerbsrecht (LIDC) hat bei ihrer Jahrestagung in Budapest am 6. Oktober 2018 eine umfangreiche Resolution verabschiedet, nach Vorstudien von Prof. Dr. Nikolas Guggenberger (Münster) und  20 nationalen Berichten aus der EU, der Schweiz, Ukraine oder Hongkong. Die von den über 100 Delegierten aus mehr als 25 Staaten mehrheitlich verabschiedete Resolution wendet sich an die EU und nationale Gesetzgeber.

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Paper by Christopher Tucci, Gianluigi Viscusi and Heidi Gautschi: “In this article, we explore the use of hackathons and open data in corporations’ open innovation portfolios, addressing a new way for companies to tap into the creativity and innovation of early-stage startup culture, in this case applied to the food and nutrition sector. We study the first Open Food Data Hackdays, held on 10-11 February 2017 in Lausanne and Zurich.

“Cities accumulate capital, people, aspirations, and power. But, whose power? Whose aspirations? How can we find in the city a place of possibility?”
These are the questions from Laura Flanders’ opening statements at the Transnational Institute’s convening on Transformative Cities in Amsterdam during July 2018.
 

Ao longo desta quinta-feira, dia 04 de outubro, especialistas se reuniram para debater os 30 anos da Constituição Federal brasileira no Centro Cultural da Fundação Getulio Vargas. O evento “30 Anos de Constituição: Democracia, Instituições e Realidade” foi organizado pela FGV Direito Rio e contou com abertura do diretor da Escola, Sérgio Guerra.

The community of Latin America and the Caribbean has maintained an incessant activity in community networks topics, particularly during September. This work has been reflected in various spaces, highlighting the Latin American Summit of Community Networks that took place in Argentina.
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Refugee Phrasebook provides useful phrases and information for newcomers

Jerry Michalski: “Trust” is one of those words we think we understand, but mostly we don’t. In particular, we don’t understand the role of trust in designing our institutions. Worse, few of us question how our institutions are designed. We humans are so adorably adaptable, no?

Über das Papiertheater „Der Mikado“: Im 19. Jahrhundert kamen in Europa Papiertheater als neue Unterhaltungsform auf. Sie boten die Möglichkeit, sich die große Welt des Theaters in kleinem Format ins Haus zu holen, waren damit lehrreich und forderten zudem einiges an handwerklichem Geschick – schließlich musste das Theater zunächst einmal selbst aus Papierbögen zusammengebaut werden.

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Mit Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger wird in diesem Jahr der Meyer-Struckmann-Preis einer international herausragenden Historikerin im Bereich der Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit zuerkannt. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, die seit 1997 den Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit an der Universität Münster innehatte und seit September 2018 Präsidentin des Berliner Wissenschaftskollegs ist, hat zu zahlreichen Themengebieten wegweisende Forschungsarbeiten vorgelegt.

Less than a year ago, the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security (the ‘UN GGE’, for short) famously came to a deadlock in its determination of how international law applies to cyberspace. Comprising 25 states, the GGE was formed to […]

Familiares, amigos, autoridades universitarias, estudiantes y funcionarios del Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos Doctor Fernando Mönckeberg Barros (INTA), se reunieron este miércoles 26 de septiembre con el fin de celebrar y rendir homenaje a la trayectoria de más de 50 años en la investigación y la academia del profesor Espejo, lo que el pasado mes de agosto le valió ser distinguido por el Estado de Chile como Premio Nacional.El Rector (s) de la U.

Are you ready? Are your systems prepared so that DNS will keep functioning for your networks?  One week from today, on Thursday, October 11, 2018, at 16:00 UTC ICANN will change the cryptographic key that is at the center of the DNS security system – what we call DNSSEC. The current key has been in place since July 15, 2010. This is a long-planned replacement.

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and as part of our work with the Online Trust Alliance and our Internet of Things (IoT) campaign, we think October also deserves another label… International IoT Security and Privacy Month. There are a number of significant activities and developments related to security and privacy.

Donna Strickland is an optical physicist at the University of Waterloo. She is also the winner of a Nobel Prize in Physics (as of two days ago), a former president and fellow of the Optical Society, and early in her career was the recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship.

While a new fund by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has disappointed some Internet advocacy groups, we believe it could be critical to bringing Indigenous and northern communities online and closing Canada’s digital divide.

Der Biophysiker studierte von 1995 bis 2001 Physik an den Universitäten Göttingen und Caen in Frankreich. Anschließend promovierte er 2004 am Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Physik in Göttingen, wo er danach ein weiteres Jahr als Post-Doktorand weiterforschte. Es folgte ein weiterer Post-Doktorandenaufenthalt an der Stanford Universität in USA, dort in der Abteilung für Strukturbiologie. 2009 kehrte er nach Deutschland zurück und arbeitet seitdem als Gruppenleiter am Forschungszentrum Jülich in der Abteilung „Computational Structural Biology“. Mit Wirkung zum 1.