Christoph Koettl at the New York Times: “Was a video of a chemical attack really filmed in Syria? What time of day did an airstrike happen? Which military unit was involved in a shooting in Afghanistan? Is this dramatic image of glowing clouds really showing wildfires in California?
17.09.2018 - 19.09.2018 - All Day Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Französische Straße 9 Berlin
Press Release: “Stanford University School of Medicine and Unanimous AI presented a new study today showing that a small group of doctors, connected by intelligence algorithms that enable them to work together as a “hive mind,” could achieve higher diagnostic accuracy than the individual doctors or machine learning algorithms alone. The technology used is called Swarm AI and it empowers networked human groups to combine their individual insight
Nithin Coca: The Platform Cooperative Japan Consortium (PCJ) is the first organization in Asia focused on promoting the idea of platform cooperatives — businesses that bring the structure of traditional cooperatives, including worker ownership and governance — to the digital world.
Skot Thayer and Alex Hern at the Guardian: “Rohingya refugees are turning to blockchain-type technology to help address one of their most existential threats: lack of officially-recognised identity.
Book by Mark A. Abramson, Daniel J. Chenok and John M. Kamensky: “In recognition of its 20th anniversary, The IBM Center for the Business of Government offers a retrospective of the most significant changes in government management during that period and looks forward over the next 20 years to offer alternative scenarios as to what government management might look like by the year 2040.
Joshua Blumenstock at Nature: “Today, 95% of the global population has mobile-phone coverage, and the number of people who own a phone is rising fast (see ‘Dialling up’)1. Phones generate troves of personal data on billions of people, including those who live on a few dollars a day.
Presentation by Prof. Donnie Maclurcan (@donmacca) of the Post Growth Institute (@postgrowth) on the Not-for-Profit World model, designed in collaboration with Jennifer Hinton (@hintojen) and Sarah Reibstein (@sarahreibstein)
Hosted at London South Bank University (@LSBU), 6th Oct., by Prof. Ros Wade (@RosWade1).
Filmed by Jeremy Williams (@jeremy_willaims) of www.makewealthhistory.org.
Event organised by Gudrun Freese (@doshorts) from www.dosustainability.com.
It is hard for me to believe, but it was one year ago today that we launched this new website! On September 14, 2017, James Wood began our flow of news with a welcoming blog post – and just a few days later the site was heavily used as part of our massive 25th Anniversary celebration.
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The Beyond the Net Funding Programme is pleased to announce the results of our 2018 grant cycle. A total of 49 applications were received, and after a thorough reviewing process, 15 amazing projects were selected.
These projects are at the core of our mission, and will use the Internet to develop Community Networks in underserved areas, to empower women through ICT, as well as bringing awareness on Internet policies around the world.
This is the second post in our series covering our events in Delhi and Bangalore on India’s Data Protection Law.
The blog post by Rana was published in Medianama on September 9, 2018. Amber Sinha was quoted.
Republished with permission from UK technology site Computing
John Leonard: The Decentralized Web Summit is over – what’s next?
Earlier this month a rather unusual tech event took place in San Francisco.
Vasilis Kostakis, Andreas Roos: In a book titled Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?, MIT scientists Henry Lieberman and Christopher Fry discuss why we have wars, mass poverty, and other social ills.
Manuel Etzkorn forscht an der neuronalen Zell-Kommunikation, insbesondere von Membransystemen, und deren Analyse mithilfe der sogenannten Kernspinresonanz-Spektroskopie (kurz NMR für englisch Nuclear Magnetic Resonance). Mit dieser Methode, bei der extrem starke Magnetfelder zum Einsatz kommen, lässt sich die molekulare Zusammensetzung und Dynamik biologischer Moleküle in extrem hoher Auflösung sichtbar machen.
Un marco transversal, la participación de múltiples actores, un enfoque sistémico y una mirada a largo plazo más allá de los periodos electorales. Estos son solo algunos de los aspectos que las académicas e investigadoras del Centro de Ciencia del Clima y la Resiliencia (CR)2, Laura Gallardo y Pilar Moraga plantean respecto a cómo Chile debe redactar una futura ley en esta materia, tras el anuncio del proceso de elaboración de esta normativa por parte del gobierno.
Los académicos María Teresa Ruiz, José Maza y Guido Garay prospectan los descubrimientos del mañana con la nueva generación de telescopios que comenzarán a operar en nuestro país en los próximos años.