The P2P Lab is happy to announce the launch of “The cultiMake project: Crowdsourcing open source agricultural solutions”, celebrating the gathering of designers, makers and farmers who are adapting to the digitised world.
This 5-day workshop will be hosted at the intercultural makerspace “Habibi.Works”, which is located in Ioannina (Greece).
More details on this call, along with the application form may be found in the following document.

Debates regarding net neutrality regulation in the United States have been carried out for over a decade. Rulemakings by the FCC have been passed numerous times, won and lost in court, and been repealed, resulting in years of political back and forth. Now, net neutrality is being argued for and against on Capitol Hill and its regulatory future is unclear.

AI to get X-ray vision: Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory are getting close to creating AI that can see through walls, Geek.com reported. The research team is using AI to analyze radio signals bouncing off human bodies. The result is a neural network-generated stick figure that moves like the targeted person does.

Ante el anuncio de la creación de una mesa de trabajo del Mineduc para avanzar en educación no sexista, académicas e investigadoras de la U. de Chile entregan sus propuestas para materializar este enfoque tanto en la educación escolar como superior.

Modelos a escala del Museo Nacional de Arte Oriental de Japón, del Museo Solomon R. Guggenheim de Nueva York y del Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos de Chile, son parte de la muestra "El lugar del arte: Obras emblemáticas arquitectónicas destinadas al arte", exposición que abrirá sus puertas este 8 de junio en el MAC Parque Forestal, y que se enmarca en un taller de proyectos de estudiantes de segundo año de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Chile (FAU).

Avances en el desarrollo de curas contra el cáncer, proyectos asociados al cambio climático y la simulación de agujeros negros en un laboratorio fueron algunos de los trabajos impulsados por académicos de la Casa de Bello que más recibieron cobertura periodística desde el extranjero.

Se habla de sequía y de pocos eventos lluviosos, en la zona centro sur del país, pero, ¿qué pasa con el resto del territorio? Para comprender el panorama hidroclimático desde Visviri a Puerto Williams, académicos e investigadores de la U. de Chile indican los puntos clave en los cuales fijarse para entender cómo se dan las lluvias en el panorama global del territorio. 1. El desierto ya no está sólo en el Norte

Blog by Ian Hogarth: “The central prediction I want to make and defend in this post is that continued rapid progress in machine learning will drive the emergence of a new kind of geopolitics; I have been calling it AI Nationalism. Machine learning is an omni-use technology that will come to touch all sectors and parts of society.

Irina Pencheva, Marc Esteve and Slava Jenkin Mikhaylov in Public Policy and Administration: “Big Data and artificial intelligence will have a profound transformational impact on governments around the world. Thus, it is important for scholars to provide a useful analysis on the topic to public managers and policymakers. This study offers an in-depth review of the Policy and Administration literature on the role of Big Data and advanced analytics in the public sector.

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In the following weeks, we will post a number of articles on the topic by scholars from Germany and Europe.Check out the first reading and be sure to revisit the blog in the next weeks: https://www.sicherheitspolitik-blog.de/ In the course of forming the global information society, the implementation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has been realized in many parts of the world.

Excerpted from an article and profile of Blair Evans by MATTHEW PIPER:

As I wrote in my previous post, we can build Platform Coops mainly based on thin relationships that follow maximizing individual self-interest, or based mainly on thick relationships that follow social and emotional engagement (always expect, though, a combination of the two). While governance is not the only factor that shapes relationships, it is nevertheless the most decisive to do it.

Schülerinnen und Schüler der Jahrgangsstufen 11 und 12 sollten hellhörig werden: Denn es gibt insgesamt 6.000 Euro für die besten Facharbeiten in den Fächern Biologie, Chemie, Informatik, Mathematik und Physik zu gewinnen. Die Preise vergibt die Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf gemeinsam mit der Dr. Hans Riegel-Stiftung.

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Joseph Nye at Project Syndicate: “…When people are overwhelmed by the volume of information confronting them, it is hard to know what to focus on. Attention, not information, becomes the scarce resource.

The 7th RIPE South-East Europe (SEE 7) meeting is being held on 18-19 June 2018 in Timisoara, Romania, and is focusing on several of the subjects of interest to the Internet Society. It’s also being chaired by our colleague Jan Žorž, whilst I’ll be talking about IoT Security and the OTA IoT Trust Framework.

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Chapter by Lilian Edwards in L Edwards ed Law, Policy and the Internet (Hart , 2018): “In this chapter, I examine in detail how data subjects are tracked, profiled and targeted by their activities on line and, increasingly, in the “offline” world as well. Tracking is part of both commercial and state surveillance, but in this chapter I concentrate on the former.

Paper by Cass R. Sunstein: “In important contexts, people prefer option A to option B when they evaluate the two separately, but prefer option B to option A when they evaluate the two jointly. In consumer behavior, politics, and law, such preference reversals present serious puzzles about rationality and behavioral biases.