Book by Cass Sunstein: “Why policies should be based on careful consideration of their costs and benefits rather than on intuition, popular opinion, interest groups, and anecdotes.

Abdi Latif Dahir at Quartz: “Tanzania’s government wants to have exclusive control over who collects and shares data about the country.

Youth and privacy in the Americas: UNICEF Brazil How do youth allies promote young people’s critical thinking on privacy, in informal learning contexts in the Americas? This blog post is part of a series showcasing the work of different organizations at the intersection of youth development, digital rights, and online safety. Quick facts Who: Nelson Leoni from UNICEF Headquarters and Pedro Ivo Alcantara from UNICEF Brazil What: Campaigning Mission/vision: To promote the fulfillment of children’s […]

Das The team of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) is looking for the following at the earliest opportunity a student employee with an IT background. The working hours of 10-20 hours per week will be determined by arrangement and according to your availability and will be paid at €12.50/hour. You…
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From Mirrors to Data: The 21st Century Digital Barter

De espelhos a dados: O escambo digital do século XXI
Provavelmente, todo brasileiro que estudou os primeiros anos da história do Brasil conhece o significado do termo “escambo”. Hoje, achamos inadmissível o fato de colonizadores terem negociado com nativos objetos de pequeno valor em troca de uma das mercadorias mais valiosas e cobiçadas na Europa naquela época.

VOZES SILENCIOSAS: A Experiência da Mulher com o Zika Vírus18h00 até 21h00O Evento: A FGV Direito Rio convida para a mesa redonda e o coquetel de lançamento do relatório “VOZES SILENCIOSAS: A Experiência da Mulher com o Zika Vírus”. 

A Escola alcançou seu maior índice de aprovação no exameO último ranking divulgado pela Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil (OAB) indica que a Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro (FGV Direito Rio) obteve o maior índice de aprovação entre todas as instituições participantes, públicas ou privadas, que tiveram ao menos 10 alunos presentes. A FGV Direito Rio obteve um aproveitamento de 87,5% dentre os alunos que prestaram o Exame.

Social Science Research Council: “For decades, the social sciences have generated knowledge vital to guiding public policy, informing business, and understanding and improving the human condition. But today, the social sciences face serious threats. From dwindling federal funding to public mistrust in institutions to widespread skepticism about data, the infrastructure supporting the social sciences is shifting in ways that threaten to undercut research and knowledge production.

Bis zum 5. Oktober können sich Studieninteressierte für einen der 18 zulassungsfreien Studiengänge an der HHU einschreiben (Übersicht über das Studienangebot der HHU).
Mit dem kommenden Wintersemester 2018/19 wächst das zulassungsfreie Studienangebot der HHU um den neuen Bachelor-Studiengang Transkulturalität. Der Studiengang ist noch in der Akkreditierungsphase – man kann sich aber schon einschreiben und im Oktober starten.

Fight against fakes: Facebook plans to fact-check videos and photos posted on the social media platform in an effort to combat misinformation, reports the Associated Press on SeattleTimes.com. Fact-checkers will use several methods, including analyzing image metadata, to determine accuracy, and Facebook will label photos and videos that are fakes, the company said.

Jill Lepore at the New York Times: “Every government is a machine, and every machine has its tinkerers — and its jams. From the start, machines have driven American democracy and, just as often, crippled it. The printing press, the telegraph, the radio, the television, the mainframe, cable TV, the internet: Each had wild-eyed boosters who promised that a machine could hold the republic together, or make it more efficient, or repair the damage caused by the last machine.

Dieser Prozess wurde bereits in den 1960er Jahren beobachtet, doch die molekulare Charakterisierung erfolgte erst in den letzten 20 Jahren. 2016 erhielt Prof. Yoshinori Ohsumi den Nobelpreis für Physiologie und Medizin für seine wegweisenden Arbeiten zu den molekularen Mechanismen der Autophagie.

Douglas Rushkoff, speaking at this summer’s Future Fest explores the importance of human connection in the digital age.
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The P2P Foundation has followed the work of Nathan Schneider for years, starting with his reporting on Occupy, followed by his visit to our FLOK project in Ecuador in 2014 (the first commons transition project undertaken at the invitation of nation-state institutions). Nathan was then instrumental in setting up, with Trebor Scholz, the platform cooperative movement and conferences. He is now teaching in Boulder, CO, but also keeping up his reporting on the cooperative movement, and a spiritually engaged progressive.

 Christoph Koettl at the New York Times: “Was a video of a chemical attack really filmed in Syria? What time of day did an airstrike happen? Which military unit was involved in a shooting in Afghanistan? Is this dramatic image of glowing clouds really showing wildfires in California?

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Press Release: “Stanford University School of Medicine and Unanimous AI  presented a new study today showing that a small group of doctors, connected by intelligence algorithms that enable them to work together as a “hive mind,” could achieve higher diagnostic accuracy than the individual doctors or machine learning algorithms alone.  The technology used is called Swarm AI and it empowers networked human groups to combine their individual insight

Nithin Coca: The Platform Cooperative Japan Consortium (PCJ) is the first organization in Asia focused on promoting the idea of platform cooperatives — businesses that bring the structure of traditional cooperatives, including worker ownership and governance — to the digital world.

Skot Thayer and Alex Hern at the Guardian: “Rohingya refugees are turning to blockchain-type technology to help address one of their most existential threats: lack of officially-recognised identity.