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The European Commons Assembly (ECA) is a network of grassroots initiatives promoting commons management practices at the European level. The last stop for the network was at Medialab Prado, Madrid. These activities were part of the Festival Transeuropa program, a large meeting of political, social and environmental alternatives.

On 30 January 2018 the International Budget Partnership (IBP) has published the Open Budget Survey 2017 with an interactive Data Explorer developed for the IBP by Open Knowledge International and updated for the 2017 survey.

The following nine points regarding the moral rights of authors in the age of cognitive capitalism were written in response to Ines Duhanic’s article, “Julia Reda-Led Panel Discussion Reveals – Publishers’ Right Faces High Resistance From Academic Circles”, IP Watch: Inside Views (January 21, 2018)

Saturday, February 3, 2018 – Half of our freshmen students visited “CU Center of Learning for the Region” in Saraburi province to get to know a species of vetiver grass, its various benefit and how to plant them, making use of the theoretical lecture from Our Environment class in a practical way.

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Michelle I. Seelig at First Monday: “Given that young adults consume and interact with digital technologies not only a daily basis, but extensively throughout the day, it stands to reason they are more actively involved in advocating social change particularly through social media. However, national surveys of civic engagement indicate civic and community engagement drops-off after high school and while millennials attend college.

A Internet é uma invenção essencial que, sem dúvidas, mudou o mundo de mais maneiras do que podemos pensar. Nem todas essas mudanças, infelizmente, são positivas. Podemos conectar mais rápido às pessoas, encontrar conteúdo mais fácil e transferir diversas informações muito rapidamente, entretanto, sem os cuidados necessários essas vantagens da comunicação podem ser um grande problema para a segurança dos usuários, visto que muito de nossas vidas e informações privadas são transferidas pela internet.

Sie vertritt seit 2008 die deutsche Wissenschaft in internationalen Gremien und nimmt zu wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen politischer und gesellschaftlicher Fragen unabhängig Stellung.

Aufgrund der Häufigkeit der Störungen bei Aufzügen hatte die HHU den BLB (als Eigentümer) aufgefordert, die Mängel umgehend zu beseitigen. Der BLB hat deshalb inzwischen einen ersten Zeitplan für die Sanierung übersandt. Dieser zeitliche Ablaufplan sieht vor, dass die Ausschreibung und Auswertung der Angebote bis Ostern (Ende März) abgeschlossen ist. Danach wird eine zügige Umsetzung der Maßnahmen in den 25er Gebäuden angestrebt; dazu sind allerdings weitere und genaue Gespräche mit dem dann beauftragten Unternehmen notwendig.

Since 2014, the U.S. City Open Data Census has tracked what datasets are open and available online in cities across the United States.

Zwei Jahre lang kann nun der deutsch-brasilianische Austausch stattfinden. Konkret entsenden die Projektpartner Doktoranden an die HHU, die für ein ganzes Jahr in Düsseldorf arbeiten können. Auch wird durch die Mittel 2018 und 2019 jeweils ein zweiwöchiger Forschungsaufenthalt von Prof. Ziem und drei Promovierenden der Universität Düsseldorf ermöglicht.

Das neue Verfahren könne dann eingesetzt werden, wenn die übliche Behandlung mit der Atemmaske zu keiner Verbesserung führt oder nicht möglich ist. Hintergrund der Schlafapnoe: Im Schlaf können sich durch eine Entspannung der Muskeln Atemwege verengen, da die Spannkraft der Zungen- und Rachenmuskulatur nachlässt. Die Folge sind Atemaussetzer mit Abfallen des Sauerstoffgehalts im Blut. „Eine Konsequenz ist, dass die betroffenen Patienten nicht die erholsamen Tiefschlaf- und Traumphasen erreichen. Tagsüber fühlen sie sich müde und unkonzentriert.

Duniter is a French cryptocurrency that squarely aims for more egalitarian outcomes and critiques the ‘propertarian’ premises of Bitcoin. The main injustice is that early entrants of Bitcoin are privileged and those that have no bitcoins have to work for those that have. It simply re-iterates the existing inequality in our societies by keeping the people who work subsumed to those that have property. In Duniter, or G1 as the first iteration of the currency is known, a special process insures that every human being who joins, receives the same amount of currency.

Oliver Sylvester-Bradley: Co-op coins are not a new concept but the days of trading locally minted coins for a pint of milk or a loaf of bread are long gone. Instead, the rising interest in digital currencies and rapid increase in the number of Initial Coin Offerings looks set to make 2018 “the year of the crypto currency”.

In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]

Paper by James Owen Weatherall, Cailin O’Connor, and Justin Bruner: “In their recent book Merchants of Doubt [New York:Bloomsbury 2010], Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway describe the “tobacco strategy”, which was used by the tobacco industry to influence policy makers regarding the health risks of tobacco products.

Open Access book edited by Pierre-Philippe Mathieu and Christoph Aubrecht: “Over  the  past  decades,  rapid developments in digital and sensing technologies, such  as the Cloud, Web and Internet of Things, have dramatically changed the way we live and work. The digital transformation is revolutionizing our ability to monitor our planet and transforming the  way we access, process and exploit Earth Observation data from satellites.

            The Fourth Circuit has issued its decision in BMG v. Cox. In case you haven’t been following the ins and outs of the suit, BMG sued Cox in 2014 alleging that the broadband provider was secondarily liable for its subscribers’ infringing file-sharing activity.

Paper by Anastasios Noulas, Colin Moffatt, Desislava Hristova, and Bruno Gonćalves: “Understanding how ambulance incidents are spatially distributed can shed light to the epidemiological dynamics of geographic areas and inform healthcare policy des