Paper by Sergei M. Guriev and Daniel Treisman: “In recent decades, dictatorships based on mass repression have largely given way to a new model based on the manipulation of information. Instead of terrorizing citizens into submission, “informational autocrats” artificially boost their popularity by convincing the public they are competent.
To do so, they use propaganda and silence informed members of the elite by co-optation or censorship.
Chris Willsher at ODX: “Studies have shown that a large majority of Canadians spend too much time in sedentary activities. According to the Health Status of Canadians report in 2016, only 2 out of 10 Canadian adults met the Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines. Increasing physical activity and healthy lifestyle behaviours can reduce the risk of chronic illnesses, which can decrease pressures on our health care system.
“If we can speak up for women today, we can further support other minority groups in future.”
Frequent internet shutdowns have begun to hurt the Indian economy.
The blog post by Sushma UN was published in Quartz India on July 31, 2018. Akriti Bopanna was quoted.
Over the past few decades, the incessant development of digital technology and its disruptive impact on contemporary society have affected the relative equilibrium of the constitutional ecosystem. A series of normative counteractions are emerging to face the challenges of digital technology and restore a condition of relative equilibrium. Edoardo Celeste argues that digital constitutionalism is…
La primera versión de los GEOLAC Industry Awards, que reconoce el liderazgo y la excelencia en el desarrollo regional de la geotermia durante los últimos 5 años, premió a dicho centro de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas U.Chile, por la iniciativa del primer invernadero geotérmico de la Patagonia.
Las facultades de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservación de la Naturaleza, de Odontología y de Ciencias fueron las tres primeras unidades académicas en las que fueron presentadas, ante sus respectivos Consejos de Facultad, las conclusiones de la etapa de autoevaluación, realizada en el marco del Proceso de Acreditación Institucional.
This month was even more special for our Internet Governance campaign, with two significant (back-to-back) activities in the Philippines.
Nation reels from killings blamed on fake reports of kidnappers spread on WhatsApp
The article by Samanth Subramanian was published in the National on July 2, 2018. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.
republished from Baltic Times
First ever ERC Starting Grant at Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance
„Wir sind stolz darauf, dass wir mit unserem Sommerfest traditionell die Möglichkeit haben, uns bei unseren Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern für die Leistungen, die sie jeden Tag bei uns erbringen, zu bedanken. Dass wir dabei noch einen guten Zweck unterstützen können, ist für uns eine Ehrensache“, freute sich Ekkehard Zimmer, Kaufmännischer Direktor und stellvertretender Vorstandsvorsitzender am UKD anlässlich der feierlichen Spendenübergabe am Dienstag, 31. Juli 2018.Prof. Dr.
Jungyun Won, Linda Hon, Ah Ram Lee in the Journal of Public Interest Communication: “This study investigates what motivates people to participate in a social media campaign in the context of animal protection issues.
Structural equation modeling (SEM) tested a proposed research model with survey data from 326 respondents.
FeedbackLabs: “A 72% increase in students ceasing to abuse drugs. A 57 percentage point jump in vaccination rates. Fourteen percent higher odds of adults quitting smoking. The improvements in outcomes that people can achieve for themselves when armed with information can be striking.
Schon lange ist Iris Siegfried als Lehrbeauftragte für Musikrecht am ITM bekannt. Wir gratulieren ihr herzlich zu ihrer Ernennung als Honorarprofessorin im Fach an der Hamburger Hochschule für Musik und Theater.
Paper by Xuan Zhang et al: “Health care fraud is a serious problem that impacts every patient and consumer. This fraudulent behavior causes excessive financial losses every year and causes significant patient harm. Healthcare fraud includes health insurance fraud, fraudulent billing of insurers for services not provided, and exaggeration of medical services, etc. To identify healthcare fraud thus becomes an urgent task to avoid the abuse and waste of public funds.
Krassimira Paskaleva and Ian Cooper in Technovation: This article is focused on public service innovation from an innovation management perspective. It presents research experience gained from a European project for managing social and technological innovation in the production and evaluation of citizen-centred internet-enabled services in the public sector.
In einer Sonderausgabe der ITM-Podcast-Reihen stellt Toshihiro Wada, aktuell Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft am ITM, die Neuerungen der EU-Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DS-GVO) vor. Thematischer Schwerpunkt des Podcasts sind die Pflichten des Verantwortlichen nach der DS-GVO.
Der Podcast ist auf Japanisch.
In a special podcast series, Toshihiro Wada, who is an academic assistant at the ITM, presents the reforms of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The episode’s main topics are the duties of the controller in terms of GDPR.
Komisja Europejska po raz kolejny zdecydowała się na aktualizację ram prawnych dotyczących ponownego wykorzystywania (reuse) informacji sektora publicznego w Europie, które po raz pierwszy zostały wprowadzone wraz z dyrektywą 2003/98/WE w 2003 roku. Pierwsza nowelizacja miała miejsce w 2013 roku kiedy to m.in. rozszerzono zakres dyrektywy na instytucje zajmujące się dziedzictwem kultury, czyli biblioteki, muzea i archiwa.