Bruno S. Frey suggests nine Proposals to refine future democratic processes. This paper unifies subsets of Frey’s Proposals. In doing so, certain Proposals are further supported while others are challenged. In addition, I suggest that our increased global reliance as well as advances in technology should force further changes to our democratic institutions.

‘Future Designers’ is an interactive and participative crash course that aims to introduce to children the concepts and practice of ‘creativity’, ‘design’, and ‘design thinking’. The course targets multiple learning styles and intelligences, combining various learning approaches and tools. The full course lasts 4-5 hours and can be delivered in a single or two sessions. Up to now, five pilot st...

The quality and the quantity of contextual information found in the descriptive metadata associated with digital representations of cultural objects are frequently inadequate for assuring that users will understand the nature of both the original object that has been digitally preserved, and the digital representation itself. This paper proposes and defines a framework for ensuring that relevan...

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(2001). The aims and objectives of the Monitoring the Future study and progress toward fulfilling them as of 2001.

before giving any preliminary definition of “hazard” (calamity) and “hazardology”, it is important to notice that “who” is giving this definition, a geologist, a sociologist, an ethnologist, an expert in law, a religionologist, etc? certainly, each of these people has their own personal assumptions & presuppositions and so will look at the matter from a different point of view. also, there are ...

Transition to IPv6 has been recognized as the trend of future Internet. Since a huge amount of resources have been invested on current IPv4-based Internet, how to smoothly transit the Internet from IPv4 to IPv6 is a very important research topic. This paper surveys the state of the art in IPv6 transition, summarizes and compares different IPv6 transition mechanisms and scenarios, discusses the ...

This paper introduces a testbed architecture for future Internet, which is called smart information network (SIN). The testbed opens up capabilities of network nodes through programmable platform, builds a uniform schedule system and various decision applications. The testbed can be easily employed to design and verify future Internet concepts.

Sebastian Meiling studierte Informatik an der Universität Leipzig, seine Diplomarbeit schrieb er zum Thema TCP with Adaptive Pacing für drahtlose Mesh-Netze. Seit 2009 ist er wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in der Arbeitsgruppe Internet Technologies (iNET) an der Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (HAW). Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen im Bereich zukünftiger Internet Technologi...