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As fertility rates decrease, a country’s working-age population grows larger relative to the young dependent population. With more people in the labor force and fewer children to support, a country has a window of opportunity for rapid economic growth if the right social and economic investments and policies are made in health, education, governance and the economy. Conversely, research shows that resource requirements to support a large population of children and youth can depress the pace of economic growth and prevent needed investments in human capital. The discourse on responding to this population growth frequently excludes the youth. The result can be an apathetic community of young people who withdraw from participation in political and democratic processes. The book is a compilation of articles that address the issue and highlight solutions from different parts of the world, from members of the Global Diplomacy Lab to external contributors: how they see their work promoting, enhancing and contributing to harvesting the demographic dividend.
Although Hip Hop is known to come from the streets of South Bronx, New York, its origins go far deeper than that. Unconsciously, the innovative souls of the 1970s Hip Hop movement demonstrated the captivating, vibrational sound of the five regions in Africa: Northern Africa, Western Africa, Eastern Africa, Central Africa, and Southern Africa. Thus, The Griot Tradition as Remixed through Hip Hop: Straight Outta Africa fleshes out the common threads of Hip Hop’s creative genius across the African diaspora and provides an analytical rubric as a guide to a greater understanding of Hip Hop. The author, Frederick Gooding, examines why Hip Hop holds such an important place within contemporary culture in order to determine how a genre that was so controversial and marginal could become mainstream and central. Through the use of various genres, artists, styles, sounds, images, and rhetorical techniques, Gooding analyzes how Hip Hop, when seen through the lens of African connection, can be appreciated for its regenerative and connective power to create relationships between people both nationally and internationally.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Computing, ICCC 2019, held as part of SCF 2019, in San Diego, CA, USA, in June 2019. The 14 full and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The papers cover all aspects of Sensing Intelligence (SIJ as a Service (SlaaS). Cognitive Computing is a sensing-driven computing (SDC) scheme that explores and integrates intelligence from all types of senses in various scenarios and solution contexts
Data science ethics is all about what is right and wrong when conducting data science. Data science has so far been primarily used for positive outcomes for businesses and society. However, just as with any technology, data science has also come with some negative consequences: an increase of privacy invasion, data-driven discrimination against sensitive groups, and decision making by complex models without explanations. While data scientists and business managers are not inherently unethical, they are not trained to weigh the ethical considerations that come from their work - Data Science Ethics addresses this increasingly significant gap and highlights different concepts and techniques tha...
As old white men continue to dominate the national and international stages, the needs of women and minorities are constantly ignored. International politics are shaped by a ruthless competition for advantage, and the world is full of conflicts, crises and wars. Things have to change. Activist and political scientist Kristina Lunz is on a mission to do just that. In her work from New York to Bogotá, from Germany to Myanmar, she became aware of a stubborn unwillingness to think past the status quo and to embrace new, innovative voices from marginalized groups. She also saw that the tradition of feminist activism combined brilliantly with diplomacy: both require grim tenacity, boundless creat...
In Trafficking Hector Amaya examines how the dramatic escalation of drug violence in Mexico in 2008 prompted new forms of participation in public culture in Mexico and the United States. He contends that, by becoming a site of national and transnational debate about the role of the state, this violence altered the modes publicness could take, transforming assumptions about freedom of expression and the rules of public participation. Amaya examines the practices of narcocorrido musicians who take advantage of digital production and distribution technologies to escape Mexican censors and to share music across the US-Mexico border, as well as anonymous bloggers whose coverage of trafficking and violence from a place of relative safety made them public heroes. These new forms of being in the public sphere, Amaya demonstrates, evolved to exceed the bounds of the state and traditional media sources, signaling the inadequacy of democratic theories of freedom and publicness to understand how violence shapes public discourse.
Können bisherige kriminologische Theorien und Erkenntnisse auf die Regeln des digitalen Raumes übertragen werden? Dieses Buch vereint Beiträge von Autoren aus verschiedenen Bereichen der Kriminologie und anderen Kriminalwissenschaften, die dieser wichtigen Frage aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven nachgehen. Damit zeichnet dieses Buch aktuelle Entwicklungen im Bereich digitaler Delikte und digitaler Polizeiarbeit nach und untersucht, inwiefern kriminologische Phänomene und Ansätze im digitalen Raum neu begriffen und gestaltet werden müssen im Sinne einer eigenen Cyberkriminologie.
In acht Kapiteln aus der Zeit von 2013 bis 2020 sucht Ingolf Pernice die Auswirkungen der Digitalisierung auf unsere Konzepte von Staat und Verfassung zu erschließen: Vom Strukturwandel von Öffentlichkeit und Politik und einem neuen Verhältnis von Staat und Bürger bis hin zu den Bedingungen einer "Verfassung des Internets" und den Möglichkeiten demokratischer Selbstbestimmung auch auf globaler Ebene.
Topthema: Krisenprävention und Krisenmanagement Wie schnell der existenzielle Ausnahmezustand eintreten kann, hat die weltweite Coronavirus-Krise gezeigt, die nicht nur in Deutschland viele kleine und große Unternehmen in oder an den Rand des Ruins geführt hat. Nie zuvor war das Wort »Krisenmanagement« für die gesamte Wirtschaft und den Staat so prägend wie in der Pandemiekrise der Jahre 2020/2021. In dem Praxisbuch »Krisenmanagement in Unternehmen und öffentlichen Einrichtungen« trägt ein Expertenteam dieser Entwicklung Rechnung. Die Beiträge der Experten Jörg H. Trauboth zeichnet das Gefährdungsbild der Zukunft. Er liefert das präventive Gerüst zum Management einer Krise un...