Over 100 community members, including head masters, government officials, teachers and heads of primary and secondary schools gathered in Buhera rural district council of Zimbabwe on 15 November, eager to engage in discussions related to the initial deployment of the Murambinda Works Community Network. Schools, health and the local authority facilities have been earmarked as the initial benefactors for the inaugural roll out of the Murambinda Works Community Network.

Kai Kuhnhen, Heinrich Böll Foundation : Climate change mitigation scenarios are important instruments for developing pathways towards a climate-friendly world. They form the basis for political and social negotiations regarding the climate protection measures to be adopted.

Digitalisation brings new opportunities and growth potential, especially for the German Mittelstand. What kind of activities and strategies are pursued when it comes to digital innovation by mid-sized companies? What are the different approaches and how do success stories look like? In order to shed more light on these issues we analyse different companies and…

Michel Bauwens: My keynote presentation for the platform cooperativism conference in Hong Kong, an argument that technology is NOT NEUTRAL, but the result of human design and therefore, to the values and interests of human groups

UNCITRAL RCAP-BNU Joint Certificate Program on International E-Commerce Law (JCP)
Chinese E-Commerce Law in the Global Digital Economy
In Memory of UNCITRAL Asia Pacific Day 2018
Moderator: Prof. dr. Xue Hong, Director of BNU IIPL and Co-Director of JCP
11 December 2018, 13:30-16:30 BNU Law School Auditorium 1922

Hace 25 años, un proyecto impulsado por un estudiante de pregrado de la Casa de Bello creó la primera web nacional, uno de los hitos que marcó la inserción de Chile en la World Wide Web (WWW).

A fines de noviembre el investigador chino He Jiankui anunció el nacimiento de las gemelas Lulu y Nana, las primeras humanas en ser modificadas genéticamente. Tras la noticia, los cuestionamientos éticos y de seguridad sobre la técnica de edición de ADN en humanos se instaló en el debate público, al tiempo en que el responsable del experimento desapareció sin probar la veracidad del mismo.

Con un 93,10 en el índice Global 2018, nuestro plantel se posicionó en el primer lugar de esta medición, que evaluó a las 41 instituciones de Educación Superior del país que se encuentran acreditadas.

Reposted from Forbes, December 9, 2018

Le mercredi 5 décembre dernier, Mme Audrey Ferron-Parayre a soutenu avec succès sa thèse de doctorat intitulée «Donner un consentement éclairé à un soin : réalité ou fiction? Exploration de l’effectivité du consentement éclairé aux soins».

Für das Programm von hochschulradio düsseldorf hat Tim Neumann das Projekt von Bibliothekar und Anglist Fritz Stieleke aufbereitet. Stieleke erforscht die altenglische Sprache und versucht, Lieder vom Englischen ins Altenglische zu übersetzen – bei „Yesterday“ von den Beatles klappte es. Sein altenglischer Text wurde von der Düsseldorfer Band „Töchter Düsseldorfs“ zum Leben erweckt.

You may remember that in August this year, mySociety and Open Knowledge International launched a survey, looking for the sources of digital files that hold electoral boundaries… for every country in the world. Well, we are still looking!

A lei aguarda a sua implementação por parte da Prefeitura Um trabalho desenvolvido durante a disciplina eletiva "Formação das Leis: Poder Legislativo, Lobby e Ativismo Social” da graduação da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro (FGV Direito Rio) tornou-se lei municipal em 2016. O autor da legislação e aluno da FGV Direito Rio, Armando Essabbá da Silva, foi homenageado pela câmara dos vereadores da cidade do Rio de Janeiro na última sexta-feira, dia 7 de dezembro.

Australia vs. encryption: The Australian Parliament has passed a law that requires tech companies to give law enforcement agencies there access to encrypted communications, the New York Times reports. Several tech companies and privacy groups opposed the law, saying it hurts efforts to protect data from hackers. Fortune, which called the law “draconian,” says it will create headaches for large tech companies.

„Hornhauterkrankungen können bis zur Erblindung führen, in vielen Fällen sorgen sie für eine starke Einschränkung der Lebensqualität. Meist gibt es für die Patientinnen und Patienten keine Ersatzbehandlung zur Transplantation – wie zum Beispiel die Dialyse bei Nierenerkrankungen – daher sind wir über jede gespendete Hornhaut dankbar. Unsere Patientinnen und Patienten sind auf sie angewiesen“, so Dr. Dr.

In May 2015, a coalition of citizen-candidates, Por Cádiz Sí Se Puede (For Cádiz, Yes We Can) and Ganar Cádiz (Win Cádiz) was elected to municipal government, with renewable energy as its platform. One of the new municipal government’s main objectives was to take advantage of local resources – the port and shipyards – to promote an energy transition as a way to rebuild the city’s social and productive life. This strategy is now paying dividends.

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This article by Tiago Mota Saraiva is an excerpt from the book Funding the Cooperative City: Community Finance and the Economy of Civic Spaces. Reposted from cooperativecity.org

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