Samo Burja at LessWrong:” …The purpose of a bureaucracy is to save the time of a competent person. Put another way: to save time, some competent people will create a system that is meant to do exactly what they want — nothing more and nothing less. In particular, it’s necessary to create a bureaucracy when you are both (a) trying to do something that you do not have the capacity to do on your own, and (b) unable to find a competent, aligned person to handle the project for you.

Marshall Allen at ProPublica: “With little public scrutiny, the health insurance industry has joined forces with data brokers to vacuum up personal details about hundreds of millions of Americans, including, odds are, many readers of this story. The companies are tracking your race, education level, TV habits, marital status, net worth. They’re collecting what you post on social media, whether you’re behind on your bills, what you order online.

Earlier this month in Manila, the Philippines Government Department of ICT (DICT) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Internet Society (ISOC) to facilitate the development of its National ICT Ecosystem Framework (NIEF) 2022.

Publicação analisa o atual momento da OMCO professor e coordenador do Núcleo de Estudos Brasil-China da FGV Direito Rio, Evandro Menezes de Carvalho, teve artigo publicado no China Today. Na publicação, o docente fala sobre o difícil momento que a Organização Mundial do Comércio enfrenta e sobre as possibilidades de futuro. 

Empresa Arauco comprometió la entrega de $250 millones a esta unidad académica para la construcción de la nueva infraestructura. La edificación permitirá ampliar los espacios de la FEN orientados a la vida estudiantil."Edificio X Center" será el nombre de las nuevas instalaciones con las que contará la Facultad de Economía y Negocios de la Universidad de Chile (FEN), proyecto que será impulsado a partir de la donación de $250 millones de pesos que la empresa Arauco comprometió para la construcción de esta infraestructura. 

La actividad celebrada este mediodía fue organizada por la Casa de Bello y Google, con el fin de conmemorar el legado de la primera médica cirujana del país y de Latinoamérica, egresada de nuestro plantel. La ex mandataria, junto a un grupo de mujeres líderes que estudiaron en la universidad, conversaron sobre las barreras que han sorteado para llegar a sus lugares de liderazgo y los desafíos de género que enfrenta la sociedad.Pasadas las 12:00 hrs.

Zusätzlich gibt es zahlreiche thematische Führungen, die einzelne Aspekte aus der „grünen Apotheke“ aufgreifen. Die Heilpflanzenkunde kann als eine der ältesten Wissenschaften angesehen werden. Botanische Gärten haben sich vielfach aus Klostergärten entwickelt.

Diese und viele andere Fragen beantworten die Biologen Barbara Wollborn und Dr. Joachim Busch sowie der Designerin und Pflanzenillustratorin Katrin Saran in den Sommerferien im Rahmen der Kinderuni-Workshops des Botanischen Gartens der Heinrich- Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Alle Workshops sind anschaulich, laden zum Mitmachen ein und finden in kleinen Gruppen statt. Anmeldung ist erforderlich, unter: kinderuni@uni-duesseldorf.de. Die Teilnahme ist kostenfrei.

Essay by Marlieke Kieboom:”…The question ‘what is a (social innovation) lab?’ is as old as the lab community itself and seems to return at every (social innovation) lab gathering.

Contemporary cities seem to be in a race to be increasingly ‘smart’ and data-driven. At smart city Expos around the world, visitors are presented with new visual modes of modes of knowing and governing. Dashboards providing birds-eye views of the real-time movement of objects in the city, are perhaps the most iconic of these visualizations. Often presented in a sort of control room environment, they illustrate the promise of instantaneous overviews things like cars, people and trans bins. These are all relevant objects for organizing dynamic cityscapes and creating an efficient city.

In November 2017, the Internet Society hosted its first Indigenous Connectivity Summit in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This event brought together over 200 Indigenous community members to talk about Internet access solutions, and the importance of connectivity for socioeconomic, health, community empowerment, education, and cultural and language preservation.

Paper by Devid Kumar Basyal et al: “The purpose of this paper is to revisit the relationship between E-government and corruption using global panel data from 176 countries covering the period from 2003 to 2014, considering other potential determinants, such as economic prosperity (gross domestic product per capita [GDPPC]), price stability (inflation), good governance (political stability and government effectiveness) and press freedom (civil liberties and political rights) indicators.

Olivia Solon at The Guardian: “In August 2016, the Australian government released an “anonymised” data set comprising the medical billing records, including every prescription and surgery, of 2.9 million people.

Youth and privacy in the Americas: Hiperderecho, Perú How do youth allies promote young people’s critical thinking on privacy, in informal learning contexts in the Americas? This blog post is part of a series showcasing the work of different organizations at the intersection of youth development, digital rights, and online safety. Quick facts Who: Miguel Morachimo from Hiperderecho What: Legal advocacy, campaigning, workshops Mission/vision: To promote local development through solidary social economic practices in different […]

Engaging Local Government Leaders:  “The Diversity Dashboard is a crowd-funded data collection effort managed by ELGL and hosted on the OpenGovplatform. The data collection includes the self reported gender, race, age, and veteran status of Chief Administrative Officers and Assistant Chief Administrative Officers in local governments of all sizes and forms.

17.07.2018 - 13:00 - 14:00 Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Französische Straße 9 Berlin

Ionenkanäle sind porenbildende Proteinkomplexe, die einen Transport elektrisch geladener Teilchen über biologische Membranen ermöglichen. Ihnen kommen zentrale Aufgaben in der Physiologie einer jeden Zelle zu, die u.a. von der Aufnahme und Ausscheidung von Stoffen bis hin zur Entstehung und Weiterleitung elektrischer Aktivität reichen. Aufgrund dieser universellen Bedeutung stellen Ionenkanäle wichtige Zielstrukturen in der Pharmakotherapie einer Vielzahl von Erkrankungen des Menschen dar.

Book by Frank R. Baumgartner, Derek A. Epp, and Kelsey Shoub: “Suspect Citizens offers the most comprehensive look to date at the most common form of police-citizen interactions, the routine traffic stop. Throughout the war on crime, police agencies have used traffic stops to search drivers suspected of carrying contraband.

Die Leopoldina ist die Deutsche Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften und gehört zu den weltweit ältesten Wissenschaftsakademien. Sie vertritt seit 2008 die deutsche Wissenschaft in internationalen Gremien und nimmt zu wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen politischer und gesellschaftlicher Fragen unabhängig Stellung.

Sam Brown at DotEveryone: “..adopting a Responsible Technology approach isn’t straightforward. There’s currently no roadmap, or even any common language, about how to embed responsible technology practices in practical and tangible ways.
That’s why Doteveryone has spent the last year researching the issues organisations face and we’re now developing a model that will help organisations do just that.