Nick Dall at OZY: “Over midafternoon coffees and Fantas, Robyn-Lee Abrahams and Joyce Paulse — employees at my local supermarket in Cape Town, South Africa — tell me how their lives have changed in the past 18 months. “I never dreamed my daughter would go to college,” says Paulse.

Exciting events are happening in the world of open data. This week, the GovLab is in Buenos Aires for several surrounding the International Open Data Conference (IODC). These events will serve as a showcase for all the advances and innovations that the field has made.
Third Open Data Research Symposium

By Alexandra Shaw, Michelle Winowatan, Andrew Young, and Stefaan Verhulst

Das KonzertUnter dem Motto "'30 Jahre Universitätsorchester" gab das Uniorchester der HHU in der fast vollbesetzten Ratinger Stadthalle am 13.07.2018 ein mitreißendes Konzert mit vielen Höhepunkten. Den Auftakt bildeten die Toccata und Fuge in d-Moll von Johann Sebastian Bach. Das majestätische Werk mit seinem fesselnden Anfangsmotiv erklang in einer Bearbeitung von Leopold Stokowski.

A Need for More Gender-Disaggregated Data
While Internet access and use is rapidly growing all over the world, women still face several challenges that hinder them from benefiting meaningfully from it. The proportion of women able to access and use the Internet is 12% lower than the proportion of men accessing and using it worldwide. This gap is even bigger in developing countries where only one out of seven women use the Internet.

Zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Thomas Poguntke wird sie künftig das PRuF leiten. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen im Verfassungsrecht, Parteien-, Parlaments- und Wahlrecht, Kunst- und Kulturrecht sowie im Bereich der symbolischen und performativen Dimensionen des Rechts.

Die Bildergalerie "HHU-Nostalgia" stellt interessante Archiv-Motive vor und wird kontinuierlich ausgebaut und ergänzt: Viel Spaß! 
Hier geht es zur kompletten Galerie (Übersichtsseite).
Haben Sie vielleicht auch noch ein interessantes "historisches" Foto der HHU? Die HHU-Bildredaktion freut sich über jede Einsendung: Dieter Joswig, Tel. +49 211 81-14861E-Mail senden

Laura Mann and Gianluca Lazzolino at SciDevNet: “Across the world, tech firms and software developers are embedding digital platforms into humanitarian and commercial infrastructures.

Stir to Action has worked in partnership with the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity at De Montfort University in Leicester to produce a new video resource for the municipalist movement. The video was inspired by CURA’s Municipal Socialism in the 21st Century event in June 2018, and highlights the latest concepts in the movement, summarising why it is growing, and explains some of its main concerns.

This post by Gabriel Weinberg, CEO & Founder at DuckDuckGo (2008-present) is republished from Quora

Birnbachers Forschungsschwerpunkte sind ethische und anthropologische Grundlagen- und Anwendungsprobleme der modernen Medizin. Dazu gehören z.B. Organtransplantation, Reproduktion, Sterbehilfe oder Gentechnik. Außerdem hat er über ethische Probleme im Spannungsfeld von Transhumanismus und Biokonservativismus gearbeitet. In seiner Forschung stellt Birnbacher Fragen wie „Inwieweit dürfen und sollen wir die Natur des Menschen verändern?“ oder „Hat die Unterscheidung von Künstlichkeit und Natürlichkeit ethisches Gewicht?“.

Elonnai Hickok participated in an event organized by Takhshashila on August 27, 2018 and made a presentation on Ethics and AI in India. The event was held in Takshashila Institution
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For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/takshashilas-online-cogitatum-on-ai-and-ethics-in-india

Chapter by Stefaan Verhulst and Andrew Young in Smarter New York City:How City Agencies Innovate. Edited by André Corrêa d’Almeida: “While retail entrepreneurs, particularly those operating in the small-business space, are experts in their respective trades, they often lack access to high-quality information about social, environmental, and economic conditions in the neighborhoods where they operate or are considering operating.

Matthew Beedham at TNW: “Walmart is asking all of its leafy greens suppliers to get on blockchain by this time next year.
With instances of E. coli on the rise, particularly in romaine lettuce, Walmart is insisting that its suppliers use blockchain to track and trace products from source to the customer.

Toolkit: “Government leaders and staff who leverage algorithms are facing increasing pressure from the public, the media, and academic institutions to be more transparent and accountable about their use. Every day, stories come out describing the unintended or undesirable consequences of algorithms. Governments have not had the tools they need to understand and manage this new class of risk.

Junto con analizar los diferentes énfasis que ha tenido este organismo, dependiendo de las diferentes realidades de la región, el coordinador académico de la Cátedra de DD.HH. Claudio Nash, revisa como "hoy la situación es compleja", dado que "se ha ido imponiendo un discurso pro democracia y derechos humanos, pero con poco correlato en la práctica".En el marco de la conmemoración de los 40 años de la instalación de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, se ha realizado un Seminario en Chile, organizado por la Asociación Interamericana de Defensorías Públicas.

Este martes al mediodía en la Casa Central se realizará el Acto Oficial de conmemoración de un nuevo aniversario del Golpe de Estado, ocasión en la que efectuará la segunda entrega de títulos póstumos y simbólicos a familiares de estudiantes detenidos desaparecidos y ejecutados políticos. Además, en los diferentes espacios universitarios se llevan a cabo diversas y significativas iniciativas de conmemoración, como un homenaje a quienes sufrieron la violencia de la dictadura, particularmente a quienes integraron la institución.

Stanford Law School today announced the appointment of the freedom of expression, freedom of information, and media regulation international expert Joan Barata Mir as the Consulting Intermediary Liability Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS). Barata will pursue international and comparative approaches to intermediary obligations, focusing particularly on the implications vis-à-vis the exercise of the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of information.
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In preparation of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL), the Cyberjustice Laboratory of the Université de Montréal will be hosting a number of scientific events dedicated to artificial intelligence. One such event, the Graduate Law and Artificial Intelligence Conference (GLAIC), will be held on February 25, 2019 in Montreal, Canada.