Other News from Participating Centers

Mehr Transparenz: Uniklinik Düsseldorf beteiligt sich erneut an der „Initiative Qualitätsmedizin“

„Durch die Teilnahme an der Qualitätsinitiative können wir unsere Qualität in der Patientenversorgung kontinuierlich weiter ausbauen“, ist Prof. Dr. Ralf Wasmuth überzeugt: „Mit der gemeinsamen Veröffentlichung leisten die teilnehmenden Kliniken einen wichtigen Beitrag für mehr Transparenz auf diesem Gebiet. Gleichzeitig verändert der Umgang mit den Qualitätsdaten auch die Kultur in den Kliniken und ist eine große Chance, die Versorgung immer weiter zu verbessern.“ Auch in diesem Jahr bestätigt die Auswertung erneut die sehr gute Behandlungsqualität am UKD.

Together Let’s #SwitchItOn and #KeepItOn! The Internet Society Releases Joint Statement with Access Now

This week the Internet Society is at RightsCon, one of the world’s leading conferences on human rights in the digital age. The event brings together business leaders, policy makers, government representatives, technologists, and human rights defenders from around the world.

Using Blockchain Technology to Create Positive Social Impact

Randall Minas in Healthcare Informatics: “…Healthcare is yet another area where blockchain can make a substantial impact. Blockchain technology could be used to enable the WHO and CDC to better monitor disease outbreaks over time by creating distributed “ledgers” that are both secure and updated hundreds of times per day. Issued in near real-time, these updates would alert healthcare professionals to spikes in local cases almost immediately.

Playing Games While Building Savings

Coopyright: at last a reciprocal licence to make the link between Commons and ESS?

One of the pragmatic solutions supported by the P2P Foundation is the CopyFair license, which combines free knowledge sharing, with a demand for reciprocity for the commons’ base, in case of commercialization. Coopify is an example of such a license, developed by the Coop des Communs in France, and association which works on commons-cooperative convergence and wants to use such a license for itself and promote it within the solidarity economy networks in France.

Hullcoin: can blockchain unlock the hidden value in Hull’s economy?

It might come as a surprise – but something innovative is happening in Hull.
Hull is one of those cities, like Swindon and Slough, that’s long been the butt of jokes – like the one about the guy that typed ‘Hell’ instead of ‘Hull’ into his Sat-Nav, but still got there – it’s not that funny, or even really justified.

Google's march to the business of war must be stopped

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United States

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This Is Ajit Pai, Nemesis of Net Neutrality

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United States

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Date published: May 16, 2018Wired"“I’m not saying that Google doesn’t act out of self-interest,” says Andrew McLaughlin, who helped start Google’s public policy operation in Washington. “But that self-interest was the sense that the long-term future of the internet is better off if it’s free and open.”"

Americans Can't Have Audi's Super Capable Self-Driving System

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United States

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Plimsoll Gear, which sells T-shirts with icon, threatens trademark lawsui

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United States

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Farm Bill’s Database on Food Stamp Recipients Stirs Privacy Fear

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United States

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Open government – Open for business?

Dieter Zinnbauer at OGP: “Many activities related to opening government have a demonstrated, empirical potential to create business value, foster broader economic opportunities, and promote a business climate for growth and dynamism. What’s more, opening government plays a highly relevant, if not essential, role for economic stewardship and for putting economies on sustainable, inclusive trajectories of good growth.

Scaling research and impacting change

How do the world’s most powerful internet, mobile, and telecommunications companies treat their users’ freedom of expression and privacy? On 2 May 2018, the Ranking Digital Rights 2018 Corporate Accountability Index European launch event was held at Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). Kirsten Gollatz, PhD candidate at University of Zurich and Project Manager…

Shaping Consumption: How Social Network Manipulation Tactics Are Impacting Amazon and Influencing Consumers

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featuring Renee DiResta

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This talk examines the ways that these same manipulative tactics are being deployed on Amazon, which is now the dominant product search engine and a battlefield for economically and ideologically motivated actors.

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Berkman Klein Luncheon Series

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The Cybersecurity 202: Security community has its own encryption debate after discovery of new flaw

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United States

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Internet Companies Have More Work to Do on Privacy, Freedom of Expression, Report Says

Top Internet, mobile, and telecom companies across the globe still have many steps they could take to better protect their users’ freedom of expression and privacy, a new report says.
The 2018 Corporate Accountability Index, released recently by Ranking Digital Rights, gave Google a top score of 63 among 22 companies rated for protecting freedom of expression and privacy. But with a perfect score being 100, all the companies rated fell far short, with most receiving failing grades, the group said.

Jasmin Wennersbusch und Lennart Fleckenstein mit dem Promotionspreis 2017 ausgezeichnet

Prof. Dr. Nicola Preuß, Dekanin der Juristischen Fakultät, bedankte sich bei ihrer Begrüßung für die großzügige und kontinuierliche Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses der Juristischen Fakultät. Anschließend überreichte Stifter Thomas Dohme, Geschäftsführer der Goethe und Schweitzer GmbH / Schweitzer Fachinformationen die Auszeichnung für die herausragenden wissenschaftlichen Leistungen im Heinrich-Heine-Saal der Universität.

Encryption Isn’t Perfect, That’s Why Choices Are Important

Encryption is a critical building block for online trust, but it’s never perfect. Any encryption you use is the product of many steps. Encryption methods have to be defined; protocols for implementation have to be specified; and then the protocols have to be implemented. Each step is handled by different people and potentially introduces vulnerabilities along the way. Even with the best lock design in the world, if someone builds the lock with variations in the design (either intentionally or accidentally), it might be easily picked.

Why Policymakers Should Care About “Big Data” in Healthcare

David W.Bates et al at Health Policy and Technology: “The term “big data” has gotten increasing popular attention, and there is growing focus on how such data can be used to measure and improve health and healthcare. Analytic techniques for extracting information from these data have grown vastly more powerful, and they are now broadly available. But for these approaches to be most useful, large amounts of data must be available, and barriers to use should be low.

Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together

Book by Thomas W. Malone: “If you’re like most people, you probably believe that humans are the most intelligent animals on our planet. But there’s another kind of entity that can be far smarter: groups of people. In this groundbreaking book, Thomas Malone, the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, shows how groups of people working together in superminds — like hierarchies, markets, democracies, and communities — have been responsible for almost all human achievements in business, government, science, and beyond.