EarthSky: “Landslides cause thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in property damage each year. Surprisingly, very few centralized global landslide databases exist, especially those that are publicly available.
Guidebook by the Open Data Institute: “Standards for data are often seen as a technical topic that is only relevant to developers and other technologists.
Using this guidebook we hope to highlight that standards are an important tool that are worthy of wider attention.
Standards have an important role in helping us to consistently and repeatably share data. But they are also a tool to help implement policy, create and shape markets and drive social change.
Apolitical: “The team working to drive New Zealand’s government into the digital age believes that part of the problem is the ways that laws themselves are written. Earlier this year, over a three-week experiment, they’ve tested the theory by rewriting legislation itself as software code.…
Die Heine Research Academies rufen die Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftler – Promovierte und Promovenden – aller Fakultäten der HHU zu ihrem Kalenderwettbewerb „pART of Research“ auf. Das diesjährige Motto lautet „Diversity in Research / Objekte – Orte – Menschen“. Die unterschiedlichen Blickwinkel auf die vielfältigen Ansätze in Forschung und Wissenschaft in den fünf Fakultäten der HHU stehen im Focus.
A legal study on the EU General Data Protection Regulation by a researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) shows that the new regulation is a suitable regulatory instrument for innovation processes and can even create competitive advantages if properly implemented. Berlin, 14 May 2018 – Since the negotiations on…
In kurzen Beiträgen werden drei verschiedene Themen pro Sendung vorgestellt. In der ersten Ausgabe geht es um Hörprobleme, Prostatakrebs und chronische Schmerzen. „Ganz bewusst wollten wir anschaulich darstellen, was moderne Universitätsmedizin für die Menschen leisten kann. Daher freut es mich sehr, dass wir auch zwei Patientinnen gewinnen konnten, die Einblick in ihr Leben geben“, erklärt Stefan Dreising, Leiter der Unternehmenskommunikation der Düsseldorfer Uniklinik. Produziert wird das Magazin in Zusammenarbeit mit Rheinischen Post Mediengruppe.
W najnowszym numerze Kserokopii prezentujemy kolejne głosy sprzeciwu przeciwko kierunkowi, w jakim zmierza europejska reforma praw autorskich. Ponadto zachęcamy do zapoznania się z decyzją Okręgowego Sądu Dyscyplinarnego Okręgowej Izby Radców Prawnych w Gdańsku w sprawie nieetyczności copyright trollingu, artykułem nt. prawnych uwarunkowań samplingu, pomysłem Komisji Europejskiej na dyrektywę reuse oraz kolejnymi krokami na drodze do implementacji dyrektywy o zbiorowym zarządzaniu prawami autorskimi. Miłej lektury!
This blog was written by Rodrigo Valdez (Girolabs) and Transparency International Cameroon.
Zahra Davidson: Enrol Yourself is a social business that aims to redesign lifelong learning by harnessing the power of peer groups.
It all began when my good friend Roxana Bacian felt stuck in our jobs and started having regular conversations about the kind of learning and development we wanted to participate in – and couldn’t find!
In the "Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurts" permanent exhibition 21 experts on economy, science, society and politics put different perspectives on communication in the 21st century and the influence of digitalisation up for discussion.In Videostatements and Interviews the experts present their perspectives on possible trends in communication of the future.Joining them is Prof. Dr. Regina Ammicht Quinn, spokeswoman of the IZEW.for more information click here
Bis heute sind die Mechanismen der Insulinresistenz in den Skelettmuskeln und anderen Geweben von Typ-2-Diabetes Patienten nicht vollständig verstanden. Die Diabetologin Szendrödi erforscht in diesem Zusammenhang, welche Auswirkungen eine hyperkalorische Ernährung und wenig Bewegung auf Patienten mit einem Typ-2-Diabetes haben können. So konnte sie ableiten, dass ein manifester Typ-2-Diabetes durch eine verminderte Verbrennung des Nährstoffangebots an die Muskulatur gekennzeichnet ist.
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Author(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: May 14, 2018Publication Type: Other WritingThe Trump administration made two very different policy statements on sanctions Sunday. President Trump said in a tweet that an earlier decision to impose massive U.S. sanctions on the Chinese telecommunications behemoth ZTE, for selling equipment to Iran, might be open to renegotiation.
Back in the 1970s, with unemployment rising and British industry contracting, workers at the arms company Lucas Aerospace came up with a pioneering plan to retain jobs by proposing alternative, socially-useful applications of the company’s technology and their own skills. The ‘Lucas Plan’ remains one of the most radical and forward thinking attempts ever made by workers to take the steering wheel and directly drive the direction of change.
Yesterday was the 38th and last day of hearings in the Supreme Court case challenging the constitutional validity of India’s biometric authentication programme. After weeks of arguments from both sides, the Supreme Court has now reserved the matter for judgement.
The article by Karan Saini was published in the Wire on May 11, 2018.
Creative workers in the so-called ‘passion industries’ are likely to have no control other their artistic work, experience precarity, and be poorly paid. While artist co-operatives have a long history, Stocksy, a multistakeholder co-operative, are combining an inclusive legal structure with a globally distributed membership.
Page Type: Event30 maggio 2018, Roma
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Wed, 30/05/2018 - 16:00 to 18:00luogo: via della Dogana Vecchia 5, Roma
Michael C. Horowitz at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: “Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a moment in the national security space.
Book by Dan Honig: “Foreign aid organizations collectively spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually, with mixed results. Part of the problem in these endeavors lies in their execution. When should foreign aid organizations empower actors on the front lines of delivery to guide aid interventions, and when should distant headquarters lead?