Mit dem Stipendium will die GFFU den Gründergeist an der HHU beflügeln und den Innovations- und Wirtschaftsstandort Düsseldorf stärken. Dazu Eduard H. Dörrenberg, Präsident der Freundesgesellschaft: „Das Gründerstipendium dient in erster Linie der wirtschaftlichen Unterstützung von besonderen „Startup“ Begabungen. Es handelt sich dabei um ein Leuchtturmprojekt des Freundeskreises GFFU.
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Berkman Klein Center hosts a day of conversation about reducing harmful speech online and hears from the Facebook executive in charge of platform moderation policies
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As you might have noticed, there is a lot of activism on the copyright/intermediary liability side in Europe at the moment. Hence, I'm here announcing another opinion that I have co-drafted with an amazing team of scholars, including Martin Senftleben (lead author), Christina Angelopoulos, Valentina Moscon, Miquel Peguera and Ole Rognstad, and has been endorsed by more than sixty other acadamics so far:
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United States
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This blog has been jointly written by Muriel Poisson (IIEP-UNESCO) and Javiera Atenas (Open Education Working Group): their full bio’s can be found below this post.
The policy of guaranteeing every citizen a universal basic income is gaining support around the world, as automation increasingly makes jobs obsolete. But can it be funded without raising taxes or triggering hyperinflation? In a panel I was on at the NexusEarth cryptocurrency conference in Aspen September 21-23rd, most participants said no. This is my rebuttal.
Geprägt durch seine protestantische Erziehung im Lübeck des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts, war Thomas Mann mit Bibel, Katechismus und Gesangbuch bestens vertraut. Seinen ersten Roman "Buddenbrooks", der den Aufstieg und Verfall einer Lübecker Kaufmannsfamilie zwischen 1835 und 1877 beschreibt, eröffnete er mit der Konfirmationsfrage "Was ist das?" aus Luthers Kleinem Katechismus.
Jukka Peltokoski, Niklas Toivakainen, Tero Toivanen and Ruby van der Wekken: In October 2009, while expecting another futile climate summit in nearby Copenhagen, a small group of friends in the Kumpula neighborhood of Helsinki got together to discuss practical alternatives. Surely there was something that could be done by people themselves! The result of that first meeting of neighbors was a “credit exchange” called the “Kumpula exchange rink,” in which the first seventeen participants agreed to exchange goods and services with each other.
Will Oremus at Slate:”…Five years later, data plays a vastly expanded role in our lives, yet the term big data has gone out of fashion—and acquired something of an unsavory reputation. It’s worth looking back at what, exactly, happened to the revolution we were promised, and where data, analytics, and algorithms are headed now….
Paper by Seppo Leminen, Veli-Pekka Niitamo, and Mika Westerlund presented at the Open Living Labs Day Conference: “This paper analyses the emergence of living labs based on a literature review and interviews with early living labs experts.
Book by Mariel Borowitz: “Key to understanding and addressing climate change is continuous and precise monitoring of environmental conditions. Satellites play an important role in collecting climate data, offering comprehensive global coverage that can’t be matched by in situ observation.
Francisco Brugnoli Bailoni, quien ha estado a la cabeza del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Facultad de Artes desde 1998, fue incorporado a este organismo en una ceremonia realizada el jueves 5 de octubre en la sede del Instituto de Chile. En la ocasión, el artista y académico ofreció el discurso "Siendo entre el vacío y el vaciamiento".
14 instituciones de Educación Superior de todo el país participaron del torneo de la Federación Nacional Universitaria de Deportes (Fenaude). Universidad de Playa Ancha en mujeres y Universidad Católica de Temuco, en hombres, fueron los grandes ganadores de la jornada.Con circuitos de 8k en hombres y 6k en mujeres, el viernes 6 de octubre se realizó el Campeonato Nacional Universitario de Cross Country organizado por la Universidad de Chile. Laguna Carén fue el escenario que reunió a los 125 deportistas de 14 instituciones participantes.
Los carros alegóricos, la música y el baile se tomaron la Alameda Bernardo O'Higgins, en lo que fue la reedición de la histórica festividad que la Federación de Estudiantes de la U. de Chile realizara entre 1913 y 1972. Organizaciones sociales, comunidad universitaria y ciudadanía, se sumaron a una festividad que promete renacer en el Chile actual.
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with Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK and Berkman Klein Faculty Associate and Andreas Hepp, Zemki, University of Bremen, Germany
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Social order - what counts as order in the social world - is changing in the digital era, the era of deep mediatization. How can social theory help us understand this shift, and what are the consequence for fundamental democratic values such as freedom and autonomy?
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Oct
18
2017
4:00pm
Alberto Ibargüen at HuffPost: “When clashes wracked Charlottesville, many Americans saw neo-nazi demonstrators as the obvious instigators.
Ruben Mancha & Haslina Ali at Stanford Social Innovation Review: “In 1983, at the height of the Cold War, just one man stood between an algorithm and the outbreak of nuclear war. Stanislav Petrov, a colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces, was on duty in a secret command center w