La publicación de la Universidad de Chile integra en su más reciente edición un dossier dedicado a este fenómeno que ha visto correlato en el mundo social y político a partir de diversas expresiones, discursos y acciones, tema que es abordado en la revista a partir de una amplia gama de voces y perspectivas que ahondan, desde el punto de vista sociológico, mediático e histórico, en esta urgente problemática.Ya está en línea el noveno número de la revista Palabra Pública, con una edici

In a context of renewal of cultural policies of Quebec and Canada in the digital era, ISOC Québec launched the project “CLIC Québec” thanks to the Beyond The Net grant granted by the Internet Society in July 2017.

Peptide sind Eiweißmoleküle, die bei der Produktion von pharmazeutischen Wirkstoffen und Kosmetika Verwendung finden. Wegen der hohen Kosten ist der Einsatz von Peptiden jedoch stark beschränkt. Ein Kilo Peptide kostet derzeit rund eine Million Euro. Das will Numaferm ändern: „Wir können Peptide für nur fünf Euro pro Kilogramm produzieren“, sagt Biochemiker und Numaferm-Gründer Christian Schwarz.

Providing public goods and commons: Towards coproduction and new forms of governance for a revival of public action is a new publication from Ciriec International. Read the director’s foreword below and see the links for access to all chapters.

Die Gründung von Uricell basiert auf der Möglichkeit, Stammzellen, die sich zur Reprogrammierung eignen, auch aus menschlichem Urin gewinnen zu können. Aufbauend auf dieser wissenschaftlichen Grundlage entwickelten die Stammzellforscher das Konzept von UriCell, das die benötigten induzierten pluripotenten Stammzellen (ipS) zu therapeutischen oder wissenschaftlichen Zwecken generiert und zu wissenschaftlichen, diagnostischen und therapeutischen Zwecken anbietet.

The Power Shift Campaign is challenging Mauritius’ privately owned, non-renewable energy sector with a solar-powered, cooperative alternative, through which struggling farmers can improve local food production. Their actions have thwarted plans for a new coal plant, improved government transparency, and acquired land to produce solar power when they get the go-ahead.

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Date published: June 11, 2018The Verge"Net neutrality rules were actually in place by 2011 when this happened. But Google Wallet was in a complicated position. Verizon wasn’t exactly blocking web traffic; it was refusing access to a feature of the phone.

A draft privacy bill proposes sweeping reforms to the way personal data is collected, processed and stored in India.
The blog post by Arpan Chaturvedi was published in Bloomberg Quint on June 9, 2018. CIS research was quoted.

Adi Gaskell: “One of the more significant areas of promise in health technology is the ability for data to be generated by us as individuals, and for AI to provide insights based upon this live stream of lifestyle data.  An example of what’s possible comes via a project researchers at Imperial College London have undertaken with the Vodafone Foundation.

NBER Working Paper by Emiliano Huet-Vaughn, Nicholas Muller, and Yen-Chia Hsu: “Most environmental policy assumes the form of standards and enforcement. Scarce public budgets motivate the use of disclosure laws. This study explores a new form of pollution disclosure: real-time visual evidence of emissions provided on a free, public website. The paper tests whether the disclosure of visual evidence of emissions affects the nature and frequency of phone calls to the local air quality regulator.

Nils Röper at The Conversation: “It is a bitter irony that politicians lament the threat to democracy posed by the internet, instead of exploiting its potential to enhance the existing system. Hackers and bots may help to sway elections, but modern technology has allowed the power of the multitude to positively disrupt the world of business and beyond. Now, crowdsourcing should be allowed to shake up the lawmaking process to make democracies more participatory and efficient.

Speakers: Thomas Potthast, Andri König und Marius Albiez, IZEW. This lecture is a cooperation with the lecture series "participative social science" .Room 0.01, IZEW Verfügungsgebäude.When? 06/12/ 2018 12 am.

Robert Raymond: The state of precarity inherent to most forms of digital labor and the unchecked exploitation of workers on many gig economy platforms is a largely under covered issue. Although there are some conversations around regulating companies that perpertrate such practices, issues of ownership and governance as they relate to questionable practices of various digital platforms are rarely given much consideration.

Bei der Infoveranstaltung „Zweifel am Studium“ im Rahmen des Projektes „MOVE! – DEN EIGENEN WEG FINDEN“ am 13. Juni können sich Studierende vor Ort von Experten der Agentur für Arbeit, der Handwerkskammer Düsseldorf, der Industrie und Handelskammer zu Düsseldorf sowie des Career Service und der Studienberatungen der HHU und der HSD beraten lassen.
Die Ansprechpartner laden ein, gemeinsam mögliche Perspektiven und erste Schritte zu den Themen Fachwechsel, Studienausstieg oder außeruniversitärer beruflicher Ausbildung zu besprechen und anzugehen.

Social media platforms watch us. But who watches them? Part media literacy project and part citizen science experiment, Algorithm Observatory is a global collaborative lab for the empirical analysis of social computing algorithms. We are currently in the prototype stage, which only allows you to study Facebook advertising algorithms. Join us! Click here for more info about the future of Algorithm Observatory.
The following texts are taken from Algorithm Observatory’s Website.

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Verliehen wurden in Betriebswirtschaftslehre 50 Bachelor- und 44 Masterurkunden, in Volkswirtschaftslehre 37 Bachelor- und 21 Masterurkunden sowie in Wirtschaftschemie 26 Bachelor-, und 20 Masterurkunden.
Mit dem Konrad-Henkel-Examenspreis für das beste Masterexamen in BWL – dotiert mit 2.500 Euro – wurde Jahrgangsbester Eyyüp Özen (25) ausgezeichnet. Er hatte seinen Master of Science mit der Gesamtnote 1,3 abgeschlossen. Katrin Steinbüchel, Corporate Vice President Human Resources der Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, überreichte den Preis.

This is a quick update on the CEO Succession process at the Internet Society (ISOC). For background, please check my previous notes to the community.
As you know,  the application window for potential candidates for ISOC’s CEO position closed in early April. Let me update you on where we are in the process.