As billions of us move into self-isolation, one thing is crystal clear: Internet access is critical. If anyone of us took it for granted before, COVID-19 has changed everything and rocketed the world into a new era. So it’s even more critical we build an Internet for everyone.

But we’ll only get there
if we bring more diversity to the table when it comes to building infrastructure,
developing sound policy, and creating the communities needed.

For many weeks now, as the pandemic caused by the
coronavirus has spread around the world, people have been isolating themselves
to reduce the spread of infection. Businesses and schools have closed, and whole
cities have been ordered to stay indoors. People’s livelihoods have
disappeared, and of course, far too many people have been critically ill or
have died. It is a calamity. Yet it would be much worse, if it were not for the
Internet.

This interview was originally published in Technical.ly.

The Internet has long been a connector beyond the physical. Now, it’s the only reason people are able to see their faraway loved ones and complete remote projects with their coworkers amid pandemic-prompted social distancing. It’s a great moment for the technology — and for hackers.

Götz wollte mit seinem Test herausfinden, in welchem Ausmaß Personen über ein bestimmtes visuelles Urteilsvermögen verfügen – eine zur damaligen Zeit neuartige Forschungsfrage, die Psychologie und (empirische) Ästhetik verbinden sollte. Erste Tests konnten damals durchgeführt werden; auch bestand eine fruchtbare und rege Zusammenarbeit mit den Psychologen Berlyne und Eysenck.Die w/k-Redaktion interessiert, ob heute, viele Jahre später, am Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity Test erneut Interesse besteht, ob die Auseinandersetzung mit ihm fruchtbar werden könnte.

Berlin, 8 April 2020 – What will our digital society look like in 2040? How will we live and love, how will we teach and work, and how will our legal system change? Researchers from 10 countries took a look into the future as part of the “twentyforty” project. The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for…
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Considerando lo inédito de este inicio de periodo académico a propósito de la crisis sanitaria y las medidas de aislamiento social dispuestas por nuestro plantel y por las autoridades gubernamentales, la U. de Chile, a través de la Unidad de Aprendizaje del Departamento de Pregrado, ha dispuesto de diversos canales para apoyar los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje de sus estudiantes.

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.

The DLT4EU program is about to launch its Call for Applicants. The applications will be possible from 14th April to 6th May and links to the registration of online interest form will be soon available on this website. To register interest and be considered for applying, teams must apply before 6th May 2020 (11:59pm GMT).

Confira as ações simultâneas da FGV e da FGV Direito Rio, tomadas em função da Pandemia do COVID-19, para manter a comunidade acadêmica atualizada.
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On December 06, 2019, Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi participated in a "Stakeholder Consultation on Digital Assets for Women’s Economic Empowerment: Addressing Barriers and Enhancing Opportunities for Women in Informal Economy and in Agriculture".

In recent weeks, social life has been increasingly restricted: Avoiding meetings, keeping distance, staying home, closing businesses. All in the service of social solidarity with the (potential) victims of the Sars-2 Covid 19 virus. Since these restrictions are accompanied by comprehensive challenges for people in Germany, Europe and the world, there are critics everywhere who question such a demand for solidarity and instead plead for a return to normality in order to protect the economy, future prosperity and the damages caused by the quarantine measures.

As the Covid-19 virus continues to spread across the world, governments are adopting surveillance measures to track patients, raising privacy concerns. Lebanon, like many other countries, has launched digital tools to help diagnose and monitor the spread of the outbreak. The tools launched by the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health[...]

Hilfestellung in schwierigen Zeiten: Zur Unterstützung von Studierenden und Arbeitgebern hat das Jobportal der HHU, das Stellenwerk Düsseldorf, Maßnahmen ergriffen und seine Angebote durch verschiedene Aktionen der „Corona-Hilfe“ erweitert. So sind unter anderem spezielle Funktionen für beide Anspruchsgruppen freigeschaltet worden, die zuvor nicht verfügbar waren.

Claus Seidel, Hugo Sanabria und Holger Gohlke (Heinrich-Heine-Universität) und Mitarbeiter des Forschungszentrums Jülich zusammen mit einem Forscherteam der Clemson University, Clemson, USA und der University of California, Los Angeles, USA verwendeten den entfernungsabhängigen Förster-Resonanzenergietransfer (FRET) zwischen zwei spezifisch angebrachten fluoreszierenden Sonden, um das kinetische und dynamische Zusammenspiel der Konformationszustände des Enzyms Lysozym aus dem Bakteriophagen T4 zu entschlüsseln (T4L).

These are unsettling and unprecedented times.

The speed at which coronavirus has taken hold around the world, and the dramatic changes to our lives that it has brought, would have been difficult for many of us to contemplate just a few short weeks ago.

Social (and physical) distancing measures that were merely a suggestion then have suddenly become a strange reality for millions of people, with entire countries going into complete lockdown, borders and schools closing, planes no longer flying, and normal social activity placed on hold.

Incertidumbre y temor son algunas de las reacciones que ha provocado la recientemente declarada pandemia por la expansión global del COVID-19, pero, ¿cómo ha reaccionado el país y su sistema de salud a otros episodios mundiales y locales? Esto es lo que analizan los historiadores Alejandra Araya, directora del Archivo Central Andrés Bello, y Marcelo Sánchez, académico de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades.“Cerraron cines, teatros, centros educacionales.

Este jueves 26 de marzo, el académico de la Escuela de Salud Pública de la Facultad de Medicina, participó de una transmisión en línea a través de la plataforma de Facebook de nuestro plantel, instancia en que conversó sobre el COVID-19, respondiendo las consultas del público sobre estrategias de contención del virus, efectividad de las medidas que se están tomando en Chile y otras partes del mundo y la capacidad de respuesta que tenemos como país ante una crisis sanitaria de esta envergadura.