Das Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft (HIIG) sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine/n engagierte/n Projektmanager/in im Bereich Veranstaltungen & Wissenstransfer Ob wissenschaftliche Veranstaltungen wie die internationale Konferenz AoIR... MORE
The first season of Deep Dives - Sexing the Interwebs won the South Asian Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity 2017 in the “Best web series" /"Special edition” category. Rohini Lakshané was one of ten contributors to the series of long form essays on the intersection of gender, sexuality and the Internet.
Chapter by Gernot Rieder and Judith Simon in Berechenbarkeit der Welt?: “The paper investigates the rise of Big Data in contemporary society. It examines the most prominent epistemological claims made by Big Data proponents, calls attention to the potential socio-political consequences of blind data trust, and proposes a possible way forward.
Joan Subirats at Open Democracy: “Can we keep on organizing decision-making processes as we used to do in the age of the Enlightenment or in a scenario where information only flows from top to bottom? Designers and creators have been questioning this for a long time now, seeking to go beyond the user paradigm which has determined innovation processes in recent decades. Today, their concern is how to put people at the center of new experiences…..
Energy is fundamental to any development. The National Electricity Company of Burkina Faso (SONABEL) whose task is the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity in the Burkinabè population, works hard to enable citizens to benefit from this as an important resource. However, it is clear that SONABEL hardly fulfills this mission: hardly a day goes by without a power failure in Ouagadougou. After multiple complaints, which can be found on social networks, citizens have ended up resigning and passively endure the cuts.
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Author(s): Sonia KatyalPublication Date: September 14, 2017Publication Type: Other Writing
Before the elections in Germany different voting advice applications appeared . Many of those online tools are purely informative, other tools like the Wahl-o-mat show the user’s political proximity to... MORE
Russian social network Vkontakte, where the suicidal online "game" Blue Whale+ is believed to have originated, was blocked on certain internet service provider networks on Tuesday.
The article by Kim Arora was published in the Times of India on September 12, 2017.
Bate papo com os autores - lançamento dos livros O Direito realiza a Justiça? e Nazismo, Cinema e Direito11h00 até 12h00O Evento:
Dia 22 acontece o Bate Papo com os autores dos livros "Nazismo, Cinema e Direito" e "O Direito realiza a Justiça?"
Worldbank working paper by Daniel Oliver Rogger: “Who are the civil servants that serve poor people in the developing world? This paper uses direct surveys of civil servants — the professional body of administrators who manage government policy — and their organizations from Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines, to highlight key aspects of their characteristics and experience of civil service life.
Niall Firth at New Scientist: “Bitcoin changed the way we think about money forever. Now a type of political cryptocurrency wants to do the same for votes, reinventing how we participate in democracy.
Reforma Tributária: perspectivas para 2017 e lançamento do livro "Tributação e Desigualdade"09h00 até 15h00O Evento:
Timi Lewis at The GovLab: “The GovLab and FBK Launch OD200 Italy, the First and Only Comprehensive Mapping of Open Data Use in Italy
MITPress: “In this book, Edward Ashford Lee makes a bold claim: that the creators of digital technology have an unsurpassed medium for creativity. Technology has advanced to the point where progress seems limited not by physical constraints but the human imagination. Writing for both literate technologists and numerate humanists, Lee makes a case for engineering—creating technology—as a deeply intellectual and fundamentally creative process.
Este miércoles 30 de agosto la Orquesta Sinfónica Estudiantil y la Big Band de la Facultad de Artes se presentaron en una nueva actividad de la comunidad universitaria, que propone cambios al proyecto de ley sobre universidades estatales presentado por el gobierno. El próximo martes 5 de septiembre la Comisión de Educación de la Cámara de Diputados votará la idea de legislar la propuesta.
La iniciativa, en la que trabajan conjuntamente el Programa de Enseñanza en Ciencias basado en la Indagación (ECBI) de la U. de Chile y el Programa Experimento de la Fundación Internacional Siemens Stiftung, busca capacitar -de la mano de la cultura local- a los profesores del Colegio Lorenzo Baeza Vega de la isla desde la mirada de la indagación, para la formación científica de los niños y niñas.
El análisis del impacto de la minería contemporánea e histórica en los paisajes y las comunidades chilenas es el eje de la exhibición "El Tráfico de la Tierra", elaborada a partir de una investigación del fotógrafo español Xavier Ribas, su homólogo chileno Ignacio Acosta, y la historiadora del arte británica Louise Purbrick.