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Guide by the International Red Cross Federation: “Together with ICRC, and with the support of OCHA, we have published a brief guide on how to use social media to better engage people affected by crisis. The guide is geared towards staff in humanitarian organisations who are responsible for official social media channels.
The CMPF has been accepted as affiliated participant in the Network of Centre (NoC). The Network of Centers is “a collaborative initiative among academic institutions with a focus on interdisciplinary research on the development, social impact, policy implications, and legal issues concerning the Internet.
HIIG-researcher Christian Katzenbach receives dissertation award „Medien – Kultur – Kommunikation“ for model of communication scientific governance research.
Katzenbach's “Die Regeln digitaler Kommunikation” analyses how algorithms, copyright and privacy are discussed and regulated in a digitised society.
“Short of a gun to the head, a greater threat to First Amendment expression can scarcely be imagined” -Nicholas Colabella J. of the New York Supreme Court, in Gordon v Marrone. The above statement vividly describes what has come to be called a SLAPP suit – Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. The term was coined […]
Das UKD steht ganz im Zeichen von internationalen Spitzenleistungen in Krankenversorgung, Forschung und Lehre sowie renommierten Expertenpersönlichkeiten. Jährlich werden in den 28 Kliniken und 32 Instituten etwa 50.000 Patienten stationär und 270.000 Patienten ambulant behandelt. Die besondere Stärke des Krankenhauses der Maximalversorgung liegt dabei in der interdisziplinären Verzahnung der einzelnen Fachrichtungen.
Mit Applaus und Herzlichkeit wurde der UNICHOR bereits bei Ankunft in Seoul empfangen. Kulinarische Highlights und gemeinsames Musizieren mit Hochschul- und Gemeindeangehörigen machten den Aufenthalt in der Hauptstadt Südkoreas zu einem unvergesslichen Erlebnis. Nach einer Woche ging es weiter nach Tokio. Trotz vieler Proben und vier Konzerten in Folge nutzen die Sängerinnen und Sänger um die Akademische Musikdirektorin Silke Löhr sowie das weitere Team jede freie Minute, um sich von der Hauptstadt Japans in den Bann ziehen zu lassen.
In a digitised society, where individual communication is increasingly based on the processing of personal data, explaining the complexity of privacy is hardly feasible. That’s why we at the Alexander... MORE
Commons Transition presents this report in two volumes by Céline Piques and Xavier Rizos, with the support of P2P Foundation founder Michel Bauwens.
The Commons movement is facing a challenge: to articulate the optimum rate at which a resource can be harvested or used without damaging its ability to replenish itself.
Die „Arbeitsgemeinschaft Graphisches Erzählen“ lädt alle Interessierten zu der Ringvorlesung „Krieg und Migration in graphischen Erzähltexten“ ein. In insgesamt sechs Vorlesungen werden Comics, Graphic novels, Bande Dessinee oder Mangas aus den USA, den romanischen Ländern, Deutschland und Japan betrachtet.
Why is software created using taxpayers’ money not released as Free Software?
We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence. If it is public money, it should be public code as well.
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Date published: October 13, 2017TechNewsWorld"It's not surprising that Russia or any other outside entity would try to influence U.S. elections, said Richard Forno, assistant director of the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity.
Siete de los ocho candidatos a la presidencia de la República participarán en el "Debate de Estado: ¿Qué país queremos para el futuro de las y los chilenos?", organizado por nuestro plantel y Radio Cooperativa y que tendrá lugar el próximo 3 de octubre a las 8 AM. En esta instancia los presidenciables responderán preguntas realizadas por diez Premios Nacionales provenientes de diferentes áreas del conocimiento, una iniciativa hasta ahora inédita en Chile para debates sobre temas transversales.
La plataforma UAbierta de la Universidad de Chile pone a disposición de toda la ciudadanía los cursos gratuitos y en línea "Educación financiera ciudadana" e "Innovación para la educación en Ciencia y Tecnología".
Los representantes de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas lograron el mayor puntaje general en la competencia, y por tercer año consecutivo fueron los vencedores de la 47° versión de este tradicional evento deportivo de la Universidad de Chile.
Este sábado 30 de septiembre concluyó la 47° versión de los Juegos Olímpicos Estudiantiles (JOE), torneo de competencias internas más importante de la Universidad de Chile.
La directora ejecutiva del Comité Operativo de Acreditación Institucional (COAI), Gloria Riquelme, agradeció la buena recepción por parte de los miembros de la Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile (FECh) y los representantes de los Centros de Estudiantes de cada Facultad e Instituto.Tras el lanzamiento de la campaña “Contigo acreditamos la Chile”, el Comité Operativo de Acreditación Institucional (COAI), expuso los avances del proceso de reacreditación 2018 durante la plenaria que realizaron este jueves 28 de septiembre, los estudiantes agru
Phys.org: “Determining how many people live in Seattle, perhaps of a certain age, perhaps from a specific country, is the sort of question that finds its answer in the census, a massive data dump for places across the country.
James Bridle at Open Democracy: “Historically, and for those lucky enough to be born under the aegis of stable governments and national regimes, there have been two ways in which citizenship is acquired at birth. Jus soli – the right of soil – confers citizenship upon those born within the territory of a state regardless of their parentage.
Mimi Kirk at CityLab: “Almost three weeks after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, the island is in a grim state. Fewer than 15 percent of residents have power, and much of the island has no clean drinking water.