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Iris Siegfried bekommt Honorarprofessur in Hamburg verliehen

Schon lange ist Iris Siegfried als Lehrbeauftragte für Musikrecht am ITM bekannt. Wir gratulieren ihr herzlich zu ihrer Ernennung als Honorarprofessorin im Fach an der Hamburger Hochschule für Musik und Theater.

Identifying Healthcare Fraud with Open Data

Paper by Xuan Zhang et al: “Health care fraud is a serious problem that impacts every patient and consumer. This fraudulent behavior causes excessive financial losses every year and causes significant patient harm. Healthcare fraud includes health insurance fraud, fraudulent billing of insurers for services not provided, and exaggeration of medical services, etc. To identify healthcare fraud thus becomes an urgent task to avoid the abuse and waste of public funds.

Open innovation and the evaluation of internet-enabled public services in smart cities

Krassimira Paskaleva and Ian Cooper in Technovation: This article is focused on public service innovation from an innovation management perspective. It presents research experience gained from a European project for managing social and technological innovation in the production and evaluation of citizen-centred internet-enabled services in the public sector.

Big Data: the End of the Scientific Method?

Paper by S. Succi and P.V. Coveney at arXiv: “We argue that the boldest claims of Big Data are in need of revision and toning-down, in view of a few basic lessons learned from the science of complex systems.

Podcast: Pflichten des Verantwortlichen nach der DS-GVO

In einer Sonderausgabe der ITM-Podcast-Reihen stellt Toshihiro Wada, aktuell Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft am ITM, die Neuerungen der EU-Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DS-GVO) vor. Thematischer Schwerpunkt des Podcasts sind die Pflichten des Verantwortlichen nach der DS-GVO.
Der Podcast ist auf Japanisch.
 
In a special podcast series, Toshihiro Wada, who is an academic assistant at the ITM, presents the reforms of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The episode’s main topics are the duties of the controller in terms of GDPR.

Nowa dyrektywa reuse – niewykorzystana szansa, żeby zrobić to lepiej

Komisja Europejska po raz kolejny zdecydowała się na aktualizację ram prawnych dotyczących ponownego wykorzystywania (reuse) informacji sektora publicznego w Europie, które po raz pierwszy zostały wprowadzone wraz z dyrektywą 2003/98/WE w 2003 roku. Pierwsza nowelizacja miała miejsce w 2013 roku kiedy to m.in. rozszerzono zakres dyrektywy na instytucje zajmujące się dziedzictwem kultury, czyli biblioteki, muzea i archiwa.

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Beyond Humans as Labour

For the last few years, there has been a huge debate about how automation will possibly destroy tens of millions of jobs; this fear has even moved Silicon Valley luminaries to join the basic income bandwagon. At the P2P Foundation, we have always insisted that though automation may indeed affect an important number of future jobs, the real issue is really where the surplus profit is invested, and who makes the decisions. There is indeed no dearth of demand for meaningful activity in this world, beginning with a huge need for regenerative economic practices that restore the ecosystem.

Die cops ham mein handy! – Ein Buch als Urheberrechtsklausur

Bericht von Alisa Liebchen – SHK am ITM und Klausurbearbeiterin

Dass Abschlussklausuren der Vorlesungen von Prof. Thomas Hoeren gerne mal unkonventionell sind und kreative Lösungen erfordern, ist spätestens seit der sagenumwobenen Colaflaschen-Klausur bekannt und berüchtigt. Die jüngste Klausur im Urheberrecht am Freitag, dem 27. Juli, hat diese Tradition fortgeführt.

Global Online Piracy Study

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No, tech giants are not censoring Alex Jones

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The Proposed Regulation of DNA Profiling Raises Critical Privacy Concerns

The Union Cabinet recently approved the DNA Technology (Use and Application) Regulation Bill, 2018 (“DNA Profiling Bill”), which is scheduled to be introduced in Parliament today (31st July). The Bill is largely based on the 2017 Law Commission Report on “Human DNA Profiling – A draft Bill for the Use and Regulation of DNA-Based Technology”, […]

​Surbana Jurong, NTU and NRF launch S$61 million joint corporate laboratory to develop sustainable urban and industrial solutions

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We Need Transparency in Algorithms, But Too Much Can Backfire

Kartik Hosanagar and Vivian Jair at Harvard Business Review: “In 2013, Stanford professor Clifford Nass faced a student revolt. Nass’s students claimed that those in one section of his technology interface course received higher grades on the final exam than counterparts in another. Unfortunately, they were right: two different teaching assistants had graded the two different sections’ exams, and one had been more lenient than the other.

What top technologies should the next generation know how to use?

Lottie Waters at Devex: “Technology provides some great opportunities for global development, and a promising future. But for the next generation of professionals to succeed, it’s vital they stay up to date with the latest tech, innovations, and tools.

Vice-diretor da FGV Direito Rio participa do início das aulas do MBA em Direito: Gestão Pública

Curso é realizado na Esmec para magistrados e servidores do TJCEO vice-diretor da FGV Direito Rio, Antonio Maristello Porto, esteve presente na última semana no início das aulas do “MBA em Direito: Gestão Pública” na Escola Superior da Magistratura do Estado (Esmec). O curso tem como objetivo capacitar magistrados e servidores da área administrativa do TJCE e é uma parceria acadêmica entre as duas Escolas e o TJCE.

"Nietos de Bello": el nombre del primer jardín U. de Chile - JUNJI

Niños y niñas, apoderados, funcionarias, e incluso integrantes de organizaciones próximas al jardín ubicado en Domeyko 2050, participaron de este proceso democrático en el que propusieron y posteriormente votaron el nombre que denominará -a contar del 23 de julio- al primero de los cuatro establecimientos que se construirán al interior de la Casa de Bello, en el marco de un convenio con la Junta Nacional de Jardines Infantiles.Un proceso democrático y participativo, amparado bajo los lineamientos de la Ley 20

Estudio detectó déficit de titulados en algunas pedagogías

El Informe del Observatorio Docente, iniciativa del Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación (CIAE) de la U.

Experto alerta sobre error en tratamiento para pacientes con depresión

Paul Vöhringer, académico de la U. de Chile, participó de un estudio internacional sobre depresión mixta, patología que sufrirían cerca del 30 por ciento de quienes presentan episodios depresivos mayores. Estos pacientes, advierte el psiquiatra, no sólo no estarían siendo diagnosticados en la Atención Primaria de Salud, sino además estarían siendo tratados con antidepresivos, fármacos que agudizan sus síntomas y aumentan fuertemente su riesgo suicidal.

Buenos Aires Will Be the Place for Internet Governance This Week

Without a doubt, this will be a busy week for the Internet Society in Latin America and the Caribbean!  In addition to the 11th LACIGF, we will be holding discussions on gender and youth, as well as a workshop for Chapter leaders in the region.
LACIGF 11: The Coming of Age of the Regional Conversation