Republished from New Economics Foundation
Climate change is fuelling record temperatures and sweeping fires, but the progressive response is lacking.

Lant Pritchett at the Center for Global Development: “On June 1, 2009 Air France flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed into the Atlantic Ocean killing all 228 people on board. While the Airbus 330 was flying on auto-pilot, the different speed indicators received by the on-board navigation computers started to give conflicting speeds, almost certainly because the pitot tubes responsible for measuring air speed had iced over.

Palestra de Apresentação do Mestrado em Direito da Regulação19h00O Evento: A FGV Direito Rio realiza, no dia 12 de setembro, a palestra de apresentação do Mestrado em Direito da Regulação. O evento tem como objetivo apresentar o curso e esclarecer dúvidas dos candidatos que desejam ingressar na turma de 2019.

Utilizar menos energía. Ese es uno de los objetivos del proyecto "Integración óptima de energía solar en la planificación y operación de sistemas de transporte público urbano ferroviario", desarrollado por investigadores del Centro de Modelamiento Matemático (CMM), el Centro de Energía y el Centro de Energía Solar de la Universidad de Chile.

Este jueves 2 de agosto, el director del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), de la U. de Chile, Francisco Brugnoli, junto a la vicerrectora de Extensión y Comunicaciones de nuestro plantel, Faride Zeran, lideraron la inauguración de la muestra de la destacada fotógrafa franco-española, quien a través de su lente retrata un puñado de historias de mujeres en contextos de peligro. Mañana sábado 4 de agosto, Martin-Chico dictará una conferencia abierta a todo público en dicha sede del museo."Quiero agradecerles por estar aquí y compartir este momento conmigo.

Avanzar en la seguridad vial y disminuir el número de víctimas de accidentes de tránsito, es el objetivo de los nuevos parámetros de velocidad permitidos en áreas urbanas en el país, que se reducen desde 60 a 50 km/h.

Según consigna el Informe de Autoevaluación, el 70 por ciento de los 3.825 académicos y académicas de nuestro plantel tienen formación de postgrado y que se ha incrementado la cantidad programas de formación de pregrado y postgrado acreditados.

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Renata Avila at the Web Foundation: “Free and fair elections require an informed, active body of citizens debating the electoral issues of the day and scrutinising the positions of candidates. Participation at each and every stage of an electoral campaign — not just on the day of the vote — is necessary for a healthy democracy.

Article by Bianca Wylie at the Center for International Governance Innovation: “There is a striking blue building on Toronto’s eastern waterfront. Wrapped top to bottom in bright, beautiful artwork by Montreal illustrator Cecile Gariepy, the building — a former fish-processing plant — stands out alongside the neighbouring parking lots and a congested highway. It’s been given a second life as an office for Sidewalk Labs — a sister company to Google that is proposing a smart city development in Toronto.

Book by Edward J. Walters: “For increasingly data-savvy clients, lawyers can no longer give “it depends” answers rooted in anecdata. Clients insist that their lawyers justify their reasoning, and with more than a limited set of war stories. The considered judgment of an experienced lawyer is unquestionably valuable.

Co-creation, transparency and other forms of employee participation are becoming more and more of a necessity for enterprises – and that goes not only for upstarts, but increasingly for small and medium-sized, family-owned businesses as well. What such participation may look like, and which role enterprise platforms may have to play – that is what…
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Article by Anthony McCosker and Timothy Graham in MC Journal: “There are many examples globally of the use of social media to engage publics in battles over urban development or similar issues (e.g. Fredericks and Foth). Some have asked how social media might be better used by neighborhood organisations to mobilise protest and save historic buildings, cultural landmarks or urban sites (Johnson and Halegoua).

Die deutsche Medizin verfügte in den ersten Jahrzehnten des 20. Jahrhunderts über eine große Strahlkraft für schwedische Ärzte. Schwedische Forscher nutzten deutsche Lehrbücher, unternahmen häufig Studienreisen nach Deutschland und präsentierten ihre Forschungsergebnisse auf deutschen Kongressen und in deutschen Fachzeitschriften. Eine neue Studie in Kooperation zwischen der Heinrich-Heine-Universität und der Universität Lund in Schweden, fokussiert die Konjunkturen des Deutschen als Wissenschaftssprache bei schwedischen Ärzten in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts.

Republished from City Metric

Two years ago, we published a report on Value in the Commons Economy, in which we analyzed the value regime of a number of pioneering peer production projects such as Sensorica and Backfeed. In that report, we posited a sphere of ‘value sovereignty’, within the sphere of the commons, and a membrane between the commons and the market to govern its interaction.

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Recentemente, tem sido prática comum que redes de farmácias atuantes em  Belo Horizonte e em outras cidades brasileiras solicitem o número do Cadastro Nacional de Pessoas Físicas – CPF dos clientes para realizar qualquer compra em seus estabelecimentos. O fornecimento desse dado de identificação pessoal tem como alegada contraprestação ao consumidor a atribuição de descontos sobre produtos vinculados a uma promoção.

Late November, Kathy Brown announced that she would be stepping down as CEO of the Internet Society. While preparing for her next chapter, she reflected on her time at the Internet Society and shared her thoughts on how the Internet itself has evolved during her tenure.
The Internet Society: What are the biggest changes you’ve seen in the Internet since you joined the Internet Society?

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