Other News from Participating Centers

CGN, IPv6 and fighting online crime…

Carrier Grade NAT (CGN) is commonly used by network operators as a way of ekeing out the limited supply of public IPv4 addresses. This is where private IPv4 addresses are allocated to end customers, who in turn also use private IPv4 address ranges on their own Local Area Networks, which means there can be multiple layers of Network Address Translation (NAT) before traffic reaches the publicly addressed Internet.

DNSSEC Activities at ICANN 61 in San Juan on March 11-14, 2018

Sunday marks the beginning of the DNSSEC activities at the ICANN 61 meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. As per usual there will be a range of activities related to DNSSEC or DANE. Two of the sessions will be streamed live and will be recorded for later viewing. Here is what is happening.

How We Identified Burned Villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Christophe Koettl in the New York Times: “In mid-February a source in the human rights community told me that villages in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of Congo were being burned amid a renewal of communal fighting. People fleeing the violence told aid workers of arson attacks.
The clashes between the Hema and Lendu communities — on the eastern side of the Ituri province, bordering Uganda — started in December and escalated in early February.

Livro Tecnologias e Conectividade: Direito e Políticas na Governança das Redes


U.S. SEC Targets Unregulated Cryptocurrency Exchanges

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could soon crack down on unregulated cryptocurrency trading platforms after the agency sent a strongly worded warning to them this week.

Berufung in Beirat „Medien-Digital-Land NRW“

Nikolas Guggenberger wird als Gründungsmitglied in den Beirat „Medien-Digital-Land NRW“ berufen. Die Landesregierung Nordrhein-Westfalen will das Profil unseres Medienlandes schärfen und gezielt zu dem eines Medien-Digital-Landes weiterentwickeln.

A Collaborative Effort for pretty Easy privacy (p≡p)

Since the 2013 Snowden revelations of mass surveillance, the level of trust in Internet services has plunged. While discussions around privacy protection have advanced considerably, little progress has been achieved in designing operational tools that can be used on a daily basis by citizens around the world without a need to reconfigure their digital communications or change their behavior online. At the Internet Society, we believe such solutions need to be developed in a collaborative and multistakeholder fashion to be effective.

Es urgente contar con servicio forestal y una ley de incendios potente

En momentos en que las comunas de Villa Alemana, Valparaíso, La Cruz y La Calera se encuentran bajo alerta roja por el riesgo de incendios forestales, el académico de la Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservación de la Naturaleza, hace hincapié en mantener la voluntad política para tomar las medidas que permitan enfrentar estos desastres, dado que "desde el punto de la legislación referida a incendios, está claro que somos los más atrasados en toda América Latina".

U. de Chile renovó alianza con las Semanas Musicales de Frutillar

El compromiso que ya posee más de tres décadas de historia, y que fue firmado también por la Fuerza Aérea de Chile, incluye el apoyo para la realización de esta actividad artística de la Región de Los Lagos.Como parte de las celebraciones de los 50 años de las Semanas Musicales se realizó la firma de una carta de compromiso para así reafirmar el apoyo que ambas instituciones ya brindan a la institución frutillarina hace más de treinta años.

COAI presentó balance de evaluación interna de la U. de Chile

Con el objetivo de presentar el estado de situación de la acreditación institucional y hacer entrega de los borradores del Informe, que son el fruto de la etapa de evaluación interna, se realizó la séptima reunión de trabajo de la Comisión Asesora en la Casa Central de la Universidad de Chile, instancia que contó con la presencia del Comité Directivo de Rectoría.El miércoles 23 de enero se realizó una nueva jornada de trabajo de la Comisión Asesora del Comité Operativo de Acreditación Institucional (COAI), presidido por el prorrector, Rafael Epstein.

Multiple Sklerose: Internationales Panel veröffentlicht neue Diagnosekriterien

Die Multiple Sklerose ist die häufigste entzündliche Erkrankung von Gehirn und Rückenmark. Weltweit sind etwa 2,5 -. 3 Mio. Patienten betroffen. Die Häufigkeit hat in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten global eindeutig zugenommen. Verschiedenste Areale des zentralen Nervensystems können betroffen werden.  Entsprechend vielfältig sind die neurologischen Symptome: Missempfindungen, Sehstörungen, Gangstörungen, Koordinationsstörungen, Blasenstörungen, Sexualfunktionsstörungen, rasche Ermüdbarkeit („Fatigue“), kognitive Beeinträchtigungen.

CEO Succession at the Internet Society – Open Call for CEO Candidates

As I discussed in my notes to the community during the last months, at our last board meeting Kathy Brown, ISOC’s (Internet Society’s) President & CEO, informed the Board of Trustees that she will not seek another extension of her contract. Consequently, the board formed a CEO Search Committee, which is a subset of the board. The CEO Search Committee selected Perrett Laver as the search firm that will support the committee and the board during the whole process.

Już jutro rusza Spółdzielnia Otwartej Edukacji SpołEd

 
Właśnie kończy się Tydzień Otwartej Edukacji (5-9 marca), a przed nami historyczne wydarzenie – I Zjazd Spółdzielni Otwartej Edukacji.
SpołEd Matematyka spotyka się po raz pierwszy w weekend 10-11 marca, aby rozpocząć swoją wspólną przygodę z otwartymi zasobami edukacyjnymi.

Center for Structural Studies (CSS) eröffnet

Weitere Anwendungsmöglichkeiten und der infrastrukturelle Zugang für Wissenschaftler der HHU sind in der Zukunft geplant. Details und nützliche Informationen finden Sie auf unserer Webseite unter www.css.hhu.de.
Dr. Astrid Port: "Mit der Gründung des CSS als zentraler Forschungseinrichtung zur Gewinnung struktureller Informationen von Proteinen und kleineren Molekülen in allen Bereichen der Lebenswissenschaften ist die HHU in einer Vorreiter-Rolle."

Matchfunding Social Entrepreneurship and the Commons Collaborative Economy in Barcelona

A new form of citizen participation arises in Barcelona, combining participatory budgets and crowdfunding. It is a co-responsibility model called Matchfunding and it allowes citizens to start and support initiatives for the improvement of Barcelona by connecting participation and democracy with public budgets.

Beyond Supply and Demand: The Dynamic Equilibrium Between Global Thresholds and Allocations

As a monetary adviser, I spent many years questioning bankers on the authenticity of their balances sheets. What stood out most for me in these discussions was this: the social demand for commodities is often claimed by banks as having a direct link with the ecological supply of resources which are extracted, produced and sold as commodities. But this just isn’t true.

Voting open for 2018 Internet Society Board of Trustees elections

The 2018 Internet Society Board of Trustees elections have begun!
Electronic ballots were emailed today to all voting representatives. They will have until Monday, 9 April at 15:00 UTC to cast their ballots.
In this year’s election cycle, Organization Members are asked to elect one Trustee to the Board. So voting representatives may vote for only one of the candidates on the Organization Members ballot.

The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World

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featuring author, Jennifer E. Rothman, Professor of Law and Joseph Scott Fellow, Loyola Law School

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Jennifer E. Rothman will be talking about her book, The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World (Harvard University Press 2018).She challenges the conventional story of the right of publicity's development, and questions the transformation of people into intellectual property.

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Berkman Klein Luncheon Series

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Agent Intellect and Black Zones

This essay addresses arguments regarding the “place” or “non-place” in which ideas originate and whether they are wholly transcendental, wholly contingent, or a combination of transcendental and contingent.

Policy Paper: Improving information privacy, enabling innovation ("Datenschutz stärken, Innovationen ermöglichen")

The coalition agreement between CDU, CSU and SPD promises a „new start for Europe“, a „new dynamic for Germany“ and a „new cohesion for our nation“.The scientific panel of experts „Forum Privatheit“, under participation of the "center for ethics", has examined this coalition agreement part on the planned digitalization and compiled its analysis in a policy paper called „Datenschutz stärken, Innovationen ermöglichen – Wie man den Koalitionsvertrag ausgestalten sollte“ ("Improving information privacy, enabling innovation - How to improve the coalition agreement").The policy paper i