Report by Cara LaPointe and Lara Fishbane: “There are dramatic predictions about the potential of blockchain to “revolutionize” everything from worldwide financial markets and the distribution of humanitarian assistance to the very way that we outright recognize human identity for billions of people around the globe. Some dismiss these claims as excessive technology hype by citing flaws in the technology or robustness of incumbent solutions and infrastructure.

Paper by Y. Hasegawa, Y. Sekimoto, T. Seto, Y. Fukushima et al in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems: “In urban management, the importance of citizen participation is being emphasized more than ever before.

Open access book by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter :”Organized networks are an alternative to the social media logic of weak links and their secretive economy of data mining. They put an end to freestyle friends, seeking forms of empowerment beyond the brief moment of joyful networking. This speculative manual calls for nothing less than social technologies based on enduring time.

Homi Kharas and Jaana Remes at Project Syndicate: “Around the world, governments are making cities “smarter” by using data and digital technology to build more efficient and livable urban environments. This makes sense: with urban populations growing and infrastructure under strain, smart cities will be better positioned to manage rapid change.

Past attendees of the National Cultivating Community Composting Forum & Workshop share their answers to the question, “What is Community Composting?”

Pranesh Prakash was a panelist at this event organized by TERI in Bangalore on June 22, 2018.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/is-privacy-obsolete

She is well within her rights to shame the affluent man who threw plastic waste out of his swanky car, many say.
The article by Nina C. George was published in Deccan Herald on June 19, 2018. Swaraj Barooah was quoted.

Thursday, July 12, 2018 @ 2 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201
RSVP here.

With the DNSSEC Root Key Rollover coming up on October 11, how prepared are we as an industry? What kind of data can we collect in preparation? What is the cost benefit (or not) of implementing DANE? What can we learn from an existing rollover of a cryptographic algorithm?

Christina Leuker and Wouter van den Bos in Nautilus:  “After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East German citizens were offered the chance to read the files kept on them by the Stasi, the much-feared Communist-era secret police service. To date, it is estimated that only 10 percent have taken the opportunity.

Only 1 in 10 Wikipedia editors is a woman. Unfortunately, the underrepresentation of female perspectives is quite common within the tech world. In order to help achieve gender equality in content creation and dissemination, Wikipedia Editathons are held as a way of bridging the gap and encourage female editors to increase the coverage of women’s topics.

It may seem far away, but it’s time to begin planning for the 26th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. NDSS 2019 will once again be held in sunny San Diego at the lovely Catamaran Spa and Resort from 24-27 February 2019.

The post Kristina Irion briefs European Parliament on the free flow of non-personal data appeared first on IVIR.

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Prof. Jean-Claude Guédon (Université de Montréal)
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Fri, 29/06/2018 - 16:30 to 17:45luogo: Sala lettura Biblioteca Centrale di Ingegneria

Durchgeführt wurde diese Prüfung durch OnkoZert. Dies ist ein unabhängiges Institut, das im Auftrag der Deutschen Krebsgesellschaft die ganzheitliche Versorgung krebskranker Patienten in einem ausgewiesenen Netzwerk von Spezialisten unterschiedlicher medizinischer und pflegerischer Fachrichtungen überprüft. Es bewertet die Expertise anhand von einer entsprechenden Zahl von Behandlungsfällen, aber auch die interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit zwischen verschiedenen Fachdisziplinen sowie ärztlichen und nichtärztlichen Berufen.

Beauchef Proyecta es una iniciativa del proyecto Ingeniería y Ciencias 2030 de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, el cual financió a los estudiantes que desarrollaron este proyecto que abre oportunidades para nuevas investigaciones en torno a distintas formas de construcción.Como parte de la primera versión del Programa de Memorias Multidisciplinarias de Beauchef Proyecta, un grupo de estudiantes de las especialidades de Ingeniería Mecánica, Ingeniería Civil e Ingeniería Civil en Computación fueron seleccionados para desarrollar un proyecto para su trabajo de tí

La lucha contra el acoso, el abuso y el maltrato, junto con la demanda por mayor autonomía e igualdad para las mujeres, son ejes centrales de las actuales movilizaciones feministas que desde el mes pasado se tomaron la agenda política en nuestro país.

In der Arbeit von Judith Haendeler und Joachim Altschmied von der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf und dem Leibniz Institut für Umweltmedizinische Forschung (IUF) in Düsseldorf, die am 21.6. in der open access Zeitschrift PLoS Biology erschienen ist, zeigen die Autoren, dass der Schutzeffekt bei einer Konzentration, die einem Konsum von vier Tassen Kaffee entspricht, erreicht wird. Dies deutet darauf hin, dass dieser Effekt physiologisch relevant sein könnte.

An essay by Andreas Weber
“What is, then, a philosophy of relation?
Something impossible, as long as it is not conceived of as poetics.”
 – Edouard Glissant
The World as Consciousness

The 10 companies in the REMODEL design-sprint are continuing their soliciting of feedback in order to challenge the emerging open source-based business strategy that they are exploring for their product. In this 6th phase that feedback comes from two sources: The global REMODEL Expert Panel and from actual stakeholders in the companies’ potential co-creator community. Here is what we learned from this part of the process.
This is part of a serious of blogposts about the REMODEL programme at The Danish Design Centre