Chapter by William Bowen and Robert Gleeson in The Evolution of Human Settlements: “…argue that the evolutionary processes by which human settlements have evolved through countless experiments throughout millennia are the most likely paths for resolving today’s greatest problems.
Michel Bauwens: This is probably the best overview essay to understand the socio-political implications of blockchain designs.
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The Rise of the Data Oligarchs: Power and Accountability in the Digital Economy
Part I: Data Collection
New technology isn’t disrupting power – it’s reinforcing it
Republished from New Economics Foundation
Six months after a new German law – the Network Enforcement Act – has come into full effect, social media platforms are tasked to report on illegal hate speech. But as these figures have been made available, what can we learn from them? HIIG researcher Kirsten Gollatz, HIIG fellow Martin J. Riedl as well as…
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Yuval Noah Harari at the Guardian: “….A cursory look at history reveals that propaganda and disinformation are nothing new, and even the habit of denying entire nations and creating fake countries has a long pedigree.
O encontro teve como tema “Regulação, concorrência e Open Banking” Na última semana foi realizada a 4ª reunião do Núcleo de Estudos Avançados em Regulação do Sistema Financeiro (Neasf), organizado pela FGV Direito Rio. O encontro teve como tema “Regulação, concorrência e Open Banking” contou com a participação de diversos representantes do Sistema Financeiro Nacional, tais como Banco Votorantim, Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM) e Fundo Garantidor de Créditos, além de professores das Escolas de Direito e Economia da FGV e da USP.
Larry Kramer at the Stanford Social Innovation Review: “Does civil society address questions of values in ways that government and business cannot? This question makes sense if we presuppose limits on the values government and business can express. However, there are no such limits, as evidenced by the way both sectors have, throughout US history, taken positions and played roles on all sides of our nation’s great moral and political debates.
Paper by Alejandro Noriega-Campero, Alex Rutherford, Oren Lederman, Yves A. de Montjoye, and Alex Pentland: “Today’s age of data holds high potential to enhance the way we pursue and monitor progress in the fields of development and humanitarian action. We study the relation between data utility and privacy risk in large-scale behavioral data, focusing on mobile phone metadata as paradigmatic domain. To measure utility, we survey experts about the value of mobile phone metadata at various spatial and temporal granularity levels.
Nuevos aularios, laboratorios, instalaciones deportivas y bibliotecas son parte de los 112.442 metros cuadrados construidos por la Casa de Bello desde la última acreditación.
Tres funciones dirigidas por el maestro argentino Jorge Rotter cerrarán las vacaciones de invierno.
De distintas edades y disciplinas son las autoras y autores que participan en el libro "Mayo feminista. La rebelión contra el patriarcado" (LOM), editado por la vicerrectora de Extensión y Comunicaciones y Premio Nacional de Periodismo, Faride Zeran, a partir del cual desde diferentes perspectivas y disciplinas es revisado el levantamiento contra el sistema de privilegios de género que se encuentra en curso actualmente en el país. Catorce voces. Catorce puntos de vista. Eso es lo que condensa el libro “Mayo feminista.
O debate é fomentado devido à crise na VenezuelaA chegada de centenas de milhares de venezuelanos no Brasil nos últimos anos reacendeu o debate sobre a questão da imigração no país e o professor de Direitos Humanos da FGV Direito Rio, Michael Mohallem, explica como o Estado lida com a questão.
Os 3 tipos de imigrantes
In honor of International Cat Day, the Internet Society is sharing the journal of Internet Hall of Mane recipient LOL Cat. LOL Cat first achieved fame with her humorous memes written in “kitty pawtois.” A graduate of Stanfur Universekitty, her work has earned her the Purritzer Prize and many other hon-roars.
Cattain’s Log, Day 1
Sunday night patrol. The dusty creature on the wall has not moved for days. This is my vow: I will bide my time and someday I shall pounce.
Day 8
My human taunts me with the shiny red dot.
Am 7. August wurde PD Dr. Claudia Pischke mit Wirkung zum 1. September 2018 von Rektorin Prof. Dr. Anja Steinbeck zur Universitätsprofessorin (W 2) für das Fach Public Health an der HHU ernannt. Claudia Pischke studierte Psychologie an der Philipps-Universität Marburg (Grundstudium) und machte ihr Diplom in Psychologie an der FU Berlin. Dort promovierte sie auch in 2008. 2016 habilitierte sie sich für die Fachgebiete Public Health und Gesundheitspsychologie an der Universität Bremen.
This press release was originally posted by the NYU Tandon School of Engineering on August 8, 2018.
Global Policy Platform Apolitical Honors The Governance Lab Founders Beth Simone Noveck and Stefaan Verhulst