Eunyoung Ha and Nicholas L.Cain in The Social Science Journal: “This paper examines the effects of regime type, government ideology and economic globalization on poverty in low- and middle-income countries arou

Ali Farazmand in Public Organization Review: “This paper addresses governance reforms of the last three and a half decades and looks into the future. This is done in three parts.

Realizado no dia 26 de Outubro de 2017, o I Workshop Interinstitucional de Pesquisa Jurisdição e Cooperação Jurídica Internacional nos conflitos da Internet foi um evento multissetorial, que contou com a com a participação de membros dos mais diversos segmentos profissionais: Poderes Executivo e Judiciário; Academia (UFMG, UnB, UFJF e UniCeub); Sociedade Civil; e Setor Privado.

Andreas Arnold: Germany’s capital city Berlin has a thriving sharing and collaborative economy, thanks in part to think-and-do tank OuiShare. Since 2012, the group has facilitated a lively exchange of dialogue and action in many different formats, which has led to a strongly connected network of over 200 different projects and more than 1,000 individuals.

Edição conta com prefácio de Tercio Sampaio Ferraz JuniorO Professor Sérgio Guerra, da FGV Direito Rio, lança a quarta edição do livro “Discricionariedade, Regulação e Reflexividade – Uma nova teoria sobre as escolhas administrativas”. Com a atualização e a inclusão de novos tópicos, a obra propõe uma nova teoria sobre as escolhas que os administradores públicos têm que tomar baseados em questões técnicas em setores regulados, tais como como Telecomunicações, Energia e Transporte.

Joaquim Falcão, Diego Werneck e Thomaz Pereira são os organizadoresUm ano após o fim do julgamento no Senado, o longo processo de impeachment de Dilma Rousseff ainda deixou muitas perguntas a serem respondidas, como os resultados do longo processo “jurídico-político” para o país. Para responder a algumas dessas questões, os professores da FGV Direito Rio, Joaquim Falcão, Diego Werneck e Thomaz Pereira organizaram uma análise de todos os acontecimentos em um livro intitulado “Impeachment de Dilma Rousseff – Entre o Congresso e o Supremo”.  

Die Besonderheit: Die Qualitätsprüfung erfolgte durch die Ärztekammer Nordrhein. Dabei wurden die personellen, apparativen und die baulichen Voraussetzungen für die Versorgung von Schwangeren und Neugeborenen am UKD erfolgreich überprüft. Die Uniklinik ist damit das erste Krankenhaus in Düsseldorf, das diese Auszeichnung direkt von der Ärztekammer Nordrhein erhielt.„Für Eltern bedeutet dieses Siegel Transparenz und Sicherheit, denn unsere Abläufe und Prozesse wurden streng von externen Gutachtern überprüft“, erklärt Prof. Dr.

Der Begriff Outsider Art – ursprünglich 1972 von Roger Cardinal als Übersetzung der antiakademischen Art Brut von Jean Dubuffet gedacht - nahm in großen Teilen Europas und Nordamerikas eine eigene Entwicklung. Er beschreibt eine Kunst jenseits etablierter Formen und Strömungen. Die Werke der Künstler/innen, die häufig am Rande der Gesellschaft stehen, loten die Grenzen des menschlichen Denkens aus und geben mit ihren eigensprachlichen, meist existentiellen Werken, Anlass zu grundsätzlichen Fragen unseres Daseins.

Last year I went to Catalonia to conduct a field-study of one of the most interesting cooperative projects which have emerged in Europe in the age of crisis: the Catalan Integral Cooperative (CIC).
The CIC moto: ‘social transformation from below through self-management, self-organization and networking’

 Organizer’s Thank-You Letter to Professor Hong Xue

If you work in any type of co-op, or non-hierarchical group, with open and inclusive values and aspirations for horizontal management, this post is for you. It summarises a workshop from the founders of Loomio, at which they shared their distilled wisdom for effective collaboration within groups.

Report by UNDP and Futurgov: “Effective and inspirational labs exist in many highly developed countries. In Western Europe, MindLab (Denmark) and The Behavioural Insights Team (UK) push their governments to re-imagine public services. In Asia, the Innovation Bureau in Seoul, South Korea, co-designs better services with citizens.

CEPLAS, der Exzellenzcluster der HHU und der Universität zu Köln arbeitet zu unterschiedlichen Aspekten der Nutzpflanzenforschung. Ziel ist es, den Ertrag von wichtigen Nutzpflanzen wie Reis und Weizen zu steigern, angesichts sich ändernder klimatischer Bedingungen und limitierter Anbauflächen.

You have probably heard the phrase “ the elephant in the room” to say that there is a problem that everyone knows, but no one talks about. As of July... MORE
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How can science have a greater impact on society? And how are science slammers and open access related to this? At the last Digitaler Salon in 2017, we’ll be digging... MORE
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Playing for Team Human today is Post Carbon Institute fellow Richard Heinberg. Richard is the co-author of Our Renewable Future and most recently, the manifesto, There’s No App For That. On today’s show Richard and Douglas challenge the idea that technological “progress” is a panacea for solving systems-level crises like climate change.

In light of this year’s Open Access week, Michele Marchetto of Wikimedia Italia shares the story of how they helped authors to make their open access articles more widely available. This post has been cross-posted from Wikimedia Italia.

At OPEN 2017 one of the open space sessions which was proposed by Phil Carey focused on “Inter-generational Collaborative Platforms”. Here Phil explains what was discussed and the ‘call to action’ that developed from the session.

Ausgezeichnet wurde seine Arbeit zum strukturierten Gehtraining bei Patienten, die an der „Schaufensterkrankheit“, in der Fachsprache „periphere arterielle Verschlusskrankheit“(pAVK) leiden. „Wir wissen, dass gezieltes und strukturiertes Gehtraining einen Fortschritt der Erkrankung aufhalten und die verkürzte Gehstrecke dieser Patienten deutlich verlängern kann“, sagt Düppers, „Ich verstehe den Julius-Springer-Preis vor allem als Anerkennung dieses Konzeptes.“

Anna Sienicka in the Financial Times: “I often imagine how different the world would look if citizens and social activists were able to fully understand and use data, and new technologies. Unfortunately, the entry point to this world is often inaccessible for most civil society groups…