Book edited by John G. McNutt: “…offers a close look at both the present nature and future prospects for social change. In particular, the text explores the cutting edge of technology and social change, while discussing developments in social media, civic technology, and leaderless organizations — as well as more traditional approaches to social change.
Linda Poon at CityLab: “The way we consume power after midnight can reveal how we bad the morning rush hour will be….
Francis Fukuyama at the American Interest: “Most programs train students to become capable policy analysts, but with no understanding of how to implement those policies in the real world…Public policy education is ripe for an overhaul…
Authors: Dries van Ransbeeck, David Chaves and Astrid Sercu
Yes, at least for your digital persona according to the German Federal Court of Justice [1]. The judges found that a social media account is hereditary. Social media accounts are to be treated as analog diaries. Would this mean that your heirs may access the data of your dating apps? In Germany, it passes via Karlsruhe The…
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Adam Arvidsson (translated from the Italian by Tiziano Bonini)
The Political Economy of the Common. Ed. by Andrea Fumagalli
(as yet untranslated Italian-language book)
Economia politica del comune, collects a series of essays, mostly published elsewhere, which summarize his analysis of post-crisis contemporary capitalism.
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Michel Bauwens: Commoning is not inherently inclusive, and neither are initiatives such as ecovillages that have some relation to commoning. The natural resource commons described by Ostrom were often communautarian and reflected the accepted gender and class typologies and expectations of the day. Ecovillages and landed common initiatives may require initial investments that filter participants and contributory projects may attract specific groups of people and not others.
Shweta Mohandas was a panelist at discussion on Ethical Data Design Practices in the AI (Artificial Intelligence) Age, organised by Startup Grind, Bangalore on July 28, 2018 at NUMA Bangalore.
Agenda
Ethical Data Design Practices in the Age
The panel discussion is intended to explore the challenges we face when designing the user experiences of the complex behavioral agents that increasingly run our lives.
Discussion centred around how to:
Gurshabad Grover participated in the IEEE-SA InDITA Conference 2018 organized by IEEE Standards Association held IIIT-Bangalore on July 10 and 11, 2018.
Gurshabad gave a brief presentation on how we could apply or reject 'Trust Through Technology' principles in the design of public biometric authentication. The agenda for the event can be accessed here. More details on event website here.
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) organized IETF 102 Montreal at Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Montreal in Canada from July 14 - 20, 2018. Gurshabad Grover participated remotely in the meetings of several Working Groups.
Escola recebe 28 alunos estrangeiros neste períodoNesta semana foi realizado o Orientation Day para os nossos intercambistas. São 28 alunos que vieram diversos países para estudar na FGV Direito Rio e foram recebidos pelo Coordenador de Relações Internacionais, Rodrigo Vianna. Na ocasião, foram apresentadas algumas questões relacionadas ao ensino da Escola e de como é viver no Rio de Janeiro.
The Economist: “What might happen if technology, which smothers us with its bounty as consumers, made the same inroads into politics? Might data-driven recommendations suggest “policies we may like” just as Amazon recommends books? Would we swipe right to pick candidates in elections or answers in referendums? Could businesses expand into every cranny of political and social life, replete with ® and ™ at each turn?
Annabelle Timsit at Quartz: “To be a person in the modern world is to worry about your relationship with your phone.
El doctor en Ciencias Jurídicas y magíster en Derecho de la Universidad de Harvard fue reelegido con 83 por ciento de las preferencias para un nuevo período a la cabeza de esta unidad académica.Hasta la sede del Instituto de Asuntos Públicos llegaron el rector Ennio Vivaldi, el subdirector de INAP, Felipe Agüero, académicos e integrantes de la comunidad de la Universidad de Chile para la asunción por un segundo período del director del Instituto de Asuntos Públicos, Hugo Frühling.
¿Qué clases de seres somos los seres humanos?, ¿qué es el lenguaje?, ¿qué es la información?, ¿qué es lo que heredamos?, fueron solo parte de las preguntas que el Dr. Humberto Maturana, Profesor Titular de la U. de la U. de Chile y académico de la Facultad de Ciencias, fue planteando a la audiencia en su conferencia "El origen de lo humano", actividad abierta a todo público y organizada por el Departamento de Biología."¿Qué es eso que llamo ser vivo? ¿Qué tiene que estar pasando en aquel ente para que yo diga que es un ser vivo?
Entre el 13 y 14 de agosto se realizará una nueva versión de esta iniciativa que busca dar a conocer herramientas para resolver problemas de alta complejidad a estudiantes de ingeniería, economía, matemáticas y ciencias que se interesen en esta área.
La medición, hecha por el prestigioso Academic Ranking Of World Universities (ARWU), indica que la Casa de Bello lidera 18 disciplinas a nivel nacional, de las cuales en siete es la mejor de Latinoamérica.
LSE Legal Studies Working Paper by Eva Micheler and Anna Whaley: “Recently both the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority have carried out experiments using new digital technology for regulatory purposes. The idea is to replace rules written in natural legal language with computer code and to use artificial intelligence for regulatory purposes.