While we’re publishing a lot, here at the Institute of Network Cultures, trying to facilitate critical reflection on the corona crisis with diaries and essays from around the world, we’re also planning a restart of INC so that we’ll have space and resources for new urgent projects and research networks in this corona period/economic crisis.
As you may have noticed, we’ve just wrapped up our two-year publishing Making Public research project with Here and Now?

Kardiovaskuläre Operationen sollen die Lebensqualität von Patienten verbessern, so dass diese nach dem Eingriff im besten Fall wieder ein normales Leben führen können. Doch auch nach einem medizinisch erfolgreichen Eingriff sind manche Patienten immer noch beeinträchtigt.

An Interview with Johannes Müller by Lorenz Grünewald-Schukalla and Claudia Haas In 2018, an interdisciplinary expert commission comprising nine professors started working on the Third Engagement Report, titled The Future of Civic Society: Young Engagement in the Digital Age. The expert commission was chaired by Jeanette Hofmann, director of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for…

Como parte de su labor profesional en dicha repartición pública, el profesor de la Escuela de Gobierno y Gestión Pública del Instituto de Asuntos Públicos (INAP), Felipe Malgüe, es parte del grupo desplegado para velar que las empresas cumplan con las medidas de higiene y seguridad para proteger a sus trabajadores en el contexto de la pandemia.“La primera inspección que hice con relación a esta pandemia, cuando estaban comenzando los primeros contagios en Chile, fue la que más me impactó”, relata Felipe Malgüe, profesor del INAP. Esto porque “las y los trab

This post first appeared on Times of India on May 12, 2020 The Supreme Court on Monday pronounced its order in the Foundation of Media Professionals v. Union Territory of J&K (for the restoration of 4G services in Jammu and Kashmir). The Court did not allow for the restoration of services – nor did it engage with […]

Few things in the COVID-verse have been as polarising as contact tracing apps. Gamechangers, or solutions in search of a problem? Centralized or decentralized? Complementary to human contact tracers, or substitutes?
In this session of When The Music’s we bring together:

On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

Webinar | Relações de consumo: resolução consensual de conflitos em tempos de Covid-1911h00O Evento: O Núcleo de Prática Jurídica da FGV Direito Rio, em parceria com a Comissão de Mediação de Conflitos (CMC) da OAB/RJ, realiza o webinar "Relações de consumo: resolução consensual de conflitos em tempos de Covid-19”.

As Escolas de Direito da Fundação Getulio Vargas – FGV Direito SP e FGV Direito Rio – realizam, nesta quinta-feira, 21, um webinar para discutir a violência contra crianças e adolescentes durante o isolamento social provocado pela pandemia do coronavírus.

This blog post is part of a series where Portulans staff perform a more in-depth analysis of countries and regions covered by the Network Readiness Index.

This blog post is a contribution of Portulans Institute Board Member, Jacques Bughin. It is a commentary on how COVID-19 urges digitalization, impacting five core industrial processes.
 
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.  These combined fatalities only add to the disruption to our economies, as it may lead to a 10% fall in global economic welfare.

Fullstack Killswitch. Towards a Integrated ‘Universal Escape Key’ for All Extended Reality Systems
Mathana Stender, May 2020

Politicians are in a dilemma due to the corona pandemic. It has to take effective measures without having all the information available and without knowing exactly what the consequences will be. At the same time, there is a lot of resentment from parts of the population against the decisions that have been taken.

The first-ever Central African Peering Forum comes at a defining moment for Internet peering and interconnection. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries have implemented measures to restrict people from moving from their homes, while only allowing essential movements and services.

But life cannot stop.

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Ministerin Pfeiffer-Poensgen zeigte sich beeindruckt von den Aktivitäten in Universität und Universitätsklinikum: „Die Hochschulen in Nordrhein-Westfalen haben unter den erschwerten Bedingungen von COVID-19 wirklich eine hervorragende Arbeit geleistet, um für die Studierenden ein breites Online-Lehrangebot zur Verfügung zu stellen. Zudem beteiligen sich zurzeit Forschungseinrichtungen in ganz Nordrhein-Westfalen aktiv und in vielfältiger Weise an der Bewältigung der Corona-Pandemie.

Health experts warn that contact tracing works best in situations where infection rates are low and there is widespread testing. By Shashank Mohan This post first appeared on Scroll.in on May 12, 2020 On May 1, the Ministry of Home Affairs extended India’s lockdown by two weeks as part of its strategy to contaib the spread of […]