Financial Conduct Authority (UK): “The sandbox allows firms to test innovative products, services or business models in a live market environment, while ensuring that appropriate protections are in place. It was established to support the FCA’s objective of promoting effective competition in the interests of consumers and opened for applications in June 2016.
This is one of the most dynamic and illuminating films (39 min.) I have seen for quite a while. It follows the lives and struggles to save seeds – families, small farmers, communities, nations. It brilliantly facilitates deepening our understanding on several fronts – the predatory core and corruption of global capitalism in the seed industry, the incredible resistance of farmers and peasants in 8 countries to having their seeds and thus food supply deemed illegal, and, how they are acting to preserve their food and cultural commons, and their basic human and cultural rights.
Book edited by André Corrêa d’Almeida: “Innovation is often presented as being in the exclusive domain of the private sector. Yet despite widespread perceptions of public-sector inefficiency, government agencies have much to teach us about how technological and social advances occur. Improving governance at the municipal level is critical to the future of the twenty-first-century city, from environmental sustainability to education, economic development, public health, and beyond.
Blockchain merges with IoT? Could Blockchain technology help the Internet of Things become more resilient? IBM thinks so. The company is exploring ways to use Blockchain to build trust between devices and to accelerate transactions on the IoT. EETimes explores the issue.
Liz Luckett at the Stanford Social Innovation Review: “As an investor in data-driven companies, I’ve been thinking a lot about my grandfather—a baker, a small business owner, and, I now realize, a pioneering data scientist. Without much more than pencil, paper, and extraordinarily deep knowledge of his customers in Washington Heights, Manhattan, he bought, sold, and managed inventory while also managing risk.
Who doesn’t want an Urban Commons cookbook? Help support this project by pitching to their Kickstarter page. The following was written by Mary Dellenbaugh-Losse, founding member of the Urban Research Group and co-editor of the Urban Commons Cookbook.
This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS). NDSS is a premier academic research conference addressing a wide range of topics associated with improving trust in the Internet and its connected devices. A key focus of the Internet Society has long been improving trust in the global open Internet. In order to promote this trust, we need new and innovative ideas and research on the security and privacy of our connected devices and the Internet that connects them together.
Objetivo desenvolver pesquisas na interseção entre Direito e EconomiaA Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro (FGV Direito Rio), com apoio da Rede de Pesquisa e Conhecimento Aplicado da FGV, deu início a um projeto que envolve, entre outras propostas, análises e discussões sobre os efeitos esperados de normas e de decisões jurídicas no comportamento dos agentes econômicos. Trata-se de iniciativa inovadora que visa a difusão da Análise Econômica do Direito junto ao Poder Judiciário.
Continuing the conversation on Basic Income, which has been widely covered in this blog, we now turn to something more akin to Dmytri Kleiner’s concept of Basic Outcome, where essential services (and rights) are provided outside of the market sphere.
Allein in Nordrhein-Westfalen leiden schätzungsweise 900.000 Menschen an Seltenen Erkrankungen. Oft haben diese Patienten eine lange Odyssee hinter sich, bis sie an einen Mediziner gelangen, der ihre Krankheit versteht. Etwa 80 Prozent der seltenen Erkrankungen sind genetisch bedingt und treten daher bevorzugt bereits im Kindesalter auf. Ihre Bandbreite betrifft alle Bereiche des menschlichen Organismus: Fehlbildungen an Knochen oder Organen genauso wie angeborene Stoffwechselerkrankungen, die beim Kind und beim Erwachsenen auftreten können.
Our colleague, P2P Foundation founder Michel Bauwens was recently interviewed in Chiang Mai, his city of residence, by Pim Kemasingki. This article was originally published in City life Chiang Mai.
A 5.ª(quinta) edição da nossa Revista está a ser preparada.
Em breve traremos novidades.
Cyberlaw by CIJIC – Direito : a pensar tecnologicamente.
O post Cyberlaw by CIJIC – 5.ª edição aparece primeiro no Centro de Investigação Jurídica do Ciberespaço.
Terceiro painel “MLATS, obrigações de direito internacional e funções da cooperação jurídica em matéria civil e comercial” do Workshop Interinstitucional de Pesquisa: Jurisdição e cooperação jurídica internacional nos conflitos da internet.
Open Knowledge International (OKI), the international non-profit dedicated to realising open data’s value to society, is looking for people to join our Board of Directors. Background in brief below and full details here.
We want you!
Einmal jährlich vergibt das Rheinische FührungsColleg an ausgewählte Doktoranden aller Fachrichtungen und Rechtsreferendare in NRW ein Stipendium zur Teilnahme am einjährigen Programm „Persönlichkeit und Führung“. Unter den sieben Stipendiaten des Jahrgangs 2018 ist auch Jenny Augustin, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Doktorandin am Lehrstuhl für Romanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Ursula Hennigfeld).
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