Michael David Thomas in Public Choice: “New justifications for government intervention based on behavioral psychology rely on a behavioral asymmetry between expert policymakers and market participants. Public choice theory applied the behavioral symmetry assumption to policy making in order to illustrate how special interests corrupt the suppositions of benevolence on the part of policy makers. Cognitive problems associated with market choices have been used to argue for even more intervention.

Am Institut für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht, Zivilrechtliche Abteilung ist ab dem nächst möglichen Zeitpunkt eine Stelle als
wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin/wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
(Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L) mit einem
Viertel der regelmäßigen Arbeitszeit zu besetzen.
Die regelmäßige Arbeitszeit beträgt zurzeit 39 Stunden 50 Minuten wöchentlich. Die Stelle ist befristet. Die Möglichkeit zur Promotion ist gegeben.

Tafari Mbadiwe at The Atlantis: “For generations, the Maasai people of eastern Africa have passed down the story of a tireless old man. He lived alone and his life was not easy. He spent every day in the fields — tilling the land, tending the animals, and gathering water. The work was as necessary as it was exhausting. But the old man considered himself fortunate. He had a good life, and never really gave much thought to what was missing.

Report by the Centre for Public Impact: “…embarked upon a worldwide project to find out how governments can strengthen their legitimacy. Amidst the turbulence and unpredictability of recent years, there are many contemporary accounts of people feeling angry, cynical or ambivalent about government.

Für die diesjährige Preisrunde waren insgesamt 140 Forscherinnen und Forscher aus allen Fachgebieten vorgeschlagen worden.
Seit 2014 leitet Eva C. M. Nowack eine Emmy Noether-Nachwuchsgruppe zu „Frühen Schritten in der Evolution eines Organells“. Sie untersucht, wie sich Pflanzenzellen zu ihrer heutigen Form entwickelt haben und dabei Gemeinschaften mit anderen Zellen eingegangen sind. Mit ihren Arbeiten hat Nowack wesentlich zu einem besseren Verständnis der Organellentstehung beigetragen.

Want to discover the world around you? Then maybe it’s time you picked up a sensor.

The Frictionless Data Field Guide provides step-by-step instructions for improving data publishing workflows. The field guide introduces new ways of working informed by the Frictionless Data suite of software that data publishers can use independently, or adapt into existing personal and organisational workflows.

Niezależnie od tego, czy jesteś nauczycielem, twórcą, naukowcem czy właśnie założyłeś swój własny start-up, wkrótce to w jaki sposób pozyskujesz i dzielisz się informacjami z innymi może zupełnie się zmienić. Wszystko za sprawą nowej dyrektywy o prawie autorskim na jednolitym rynku cyfrowym, nad którą prace właśnie dobiegają końca. Gdy dyrektywa zostanie uchwalona w Brukseli, zadaniem każdego z krajów członkowskich będzie wdrożenie nowych przepisów do swojego porządku prawnego.

Food as a purely private good prevents millions to get access to such a basic resource, since the purchasing power determines its access. With the dominant no money-no food rationality, hunger still prevails in a world of abundance. In this paper, the commons approach is applied to food, deconstructing food as a pure private good and reconstructing it as a commons that can be better produced and distributed by a tricentric governance system compounded by market rules, public regulations and collective actions.

Brustkrebs-Patientinnen werden im spezialisierten Brustzentrum der Düsseldorfer Uniklinik versorgt. Zu den Versorgungsangeboten zählt auch eine genetische Beratung zur Klärung des familiären Brustkrebsrisikos. Die UKD-Frauenklinik ist hier bundesweit eines von 17 universitären Zentren, die sich der Beratung und Betreuung der Frauen und ihrer Familien widmen, wenn es einen Verdacht auf familiär bedingten Brist- oder Eierstockkrebs gibt.Dafür bietet das Klinikum eine spezielle Tumorrisiko-Sprechstunde an.

You can ditch Facebook. It’s OK. You will survive. And not only will you get through it, but your life will get better.
This month’s revelations that Facebook had sold, released or lost control of millions of users’ data has left many people wanting out — but wondering whether they can leave the social media platform they and hundreds of millions of others around the globe depend on.
I’m here to tell you can.

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: Eduardo Carrillo from TEDIC What: Web development, campaigns, workshops, research Mission/vision: To promote the respect of digital rights and free/open culture Where: Paraguay Since: 2012 Years of operation (as […]

Even though the UIDAI has denied these reports, its arguments rest on shaky grounds, according to experts.
The article by Mayank Jain was published in Business Standard on March 27, 2018. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.

Facebook has not been able to catch a break lately.
The article by G. Seetharaman and Shephali Bhatt with additional inputs by Indulekha Aravind was published in the Economic Times on March 26, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

 
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: Eduardo Carrillo from TEDIC
What: Web development, campaigns, workshops, research
Mission/vision: To promote the respect of digital rights and free/open culture
Where: Paraguay
Since: 2012
Years of operation (as of February 2018): 6

Even the Narendra Modi app of PM Modi is susceptible to data theft as a 22-year old Indian hacker established, claiming that privacy of more than 70 lakh users on it is at stake.
This was published by Free Press Journal on March 25, 2018

The public reckoning of data leaks in India’s national ID database, Aadhaar is still on hold while reports of data leakage through third-parties keep coming.
The article by Nilesh Christopher was published in Economic Times on March 26, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

Se você tem o costume de jogar online, ou conhece alguma pessoa que joga, há uma chance considerável de já ter ouvido falar das chamadas “loot boxes” – ou “loot crates” – presentes em alguns jogos. Este texto tem como objetivo apresentar um panorama geral sobre esse tema, explicando o porquê de as loot boxes serem uma prática tão criticada ultimamente, além de os motivos para elas serem confrontadas em diversos países e estarem em potencial conflito com as leis vigentes no Brasil.
O que são as loot boxes?

Darrell West at the Hill: “Imagine it is 2030 and you are a U.S. government employee working from home. With the assistance of the latest technology, you participate in video calls with clients and colleagues, augment your job activities through artificial intelligence and a personal digital assistant, work through collaboration software, and regularly get rated on a one-to-five scale by clients regarding your helpfulness, follow-through, and task completion.

We get experts to give their take on a current issue each week and lend their perspective to a much-discussed topic.
The article was published in Asian Age on March 25, 2018.