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Con el anuncio de la aprobación de un nuevo periodo de financiamiento para este centro de excelencia, y con un encuentro de la comunidad científica y autoridades universitarias y de gobierno, se celebraron los primeros cinco años de trabajo del Centro del Clima y la Resiliencia (CR)2, cita en la que participó la mandataria, destacando el trabajo y los aportes de este equipo interdisciplinario.

La Casa de Bello es anfitriona del IV Encuentro Bienal de Educación Superior y Mundo del Trabajo (BIESTRA 2017), que se inauguró este jueves 19 de octubre bajo el título de "Desafíos de Desarrollo de Carrera en el Contexto del Acceso Masivo". La cita congregará a académicos nacionales e internacionales en la Facultad de Economía y Negocios durante dos jornadas.

Rectores y autoridades de ambos planteles se reunieron en la Casa Central con el objetivo de avanzar en el establecimiento de un convenio que permita principalmente la movilidad estudiantil.Enfermería y el “desarrollo de start up” son las dos principales áreas de interés en que la Universidad de Chile y la Universidad de Belén están buscando un convenio de cooperación académica. Un paso importante en esta línea fue dado el pasado jueves 12 de octubre en el marco de una nueva reunión protocolar entre autoridades de ambos planteles, la tercera en cas

A Video Conversation with Sandy Pentland at Edge: “People have lots of capabilities; they know lots of things about the world; they can perceive things in a human way. What would happen if you had a network of people where you could reinforce the ones that were helping and maybe discourage the ones that weren’t?

Book edited by Indra Øverland: ” …examines how civil society, public debate and freedom of speech affect natural resource governance.

《中华人民共和国电子商务法(草案)》(简称草案)于2016年12月25日提交全国人大常委会首次审议，十二届全国人大常委会第三十次会议于2017年10月31日对“电子商务法草案”进行了第二次审议。  本着遵循规范经营与促进发展并重、聚焦于规范电子商务经营者特别是平台经营者、按照“鼓励创新、包容审慎”的原则，二次审议稿草案规定，电子商务经营者应当依法办理工商登记，但销售自产农副产品、销售家庭手工业产品、个人利用自己的技能从事依法无须取得许可的便民劳务活动以及依照法律、行政法规不需要进行工商登记的除外。 电子商务经营者是否需要依法办理工商登记，一直是社会讨论的焦点话题，有意见认为，应当促进电子商务经营的发展，扩大免于工商登记的范围。但也有意见认为，工商登记是税收征管的基础，而且工商登记、税务登记已合并，实行一照一码，工商登记应当线上线下统一。全国人大法律委员会研究后，对免于工商登记的范围作了修改。草案着重对加强消费者权益保护进行了修改和完善，规定不得以虚假宣传、虚构交易、编造用户评价等方式侵害消费者的知情权，应当明示用户注销的方式和程序，对于竞价排名的商品或者服务，应当显著标明“广告”。

Junfeng Jiao, Juan Miró and Nicole McGrath in The Conversation: “…New technologies and business models can inspire us to reconsider how we move through society. “Sharing economy” companies use digital technologies to connect customers who want something with people offering it directly – in the case of Uber and Lyft, transportation services. Applying this approach to public transit offers new solutions to mobility problems.

How is power constituted in the digital society? In his inaugural lecture on 12 December, Manuel Castells will revisit the development of the last 20 years. Our new lecture series... MORE
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The Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom joins the campaign to end impunity and to ensure the safety and security of journalists and other media actors in performing their work. According to UNESCO, since 2006 close to 930 journalists have been killed for reporting the news and bringing information to the public, with nine in ten cases remaining unresolved.

In the last couple of months we have received questions regarding the status of the new Global Open Data Index (GODI) from a few members of our Network. This blogpost is to update everyone on the status of GODI and what comes next.

Nithin Coca: In 2009, the world hit a watershed moment. For the first time in human history, a majority of people were living not in rural areas, but in cities.

It doesn´t take a rocket scientist to realize that the economy is not working for many. Despite record-breaking stock market performance and record profits from many banks and technology companies, income inequality in many advanced countries, especially in the U.S., has actually been worsening. In 2010, Oxfam found that the richest 388 billionaires around the globe had the same aggregate wealth that the poorest 50 percent of the people on the planet had (i.e., 388 people had the same wealth as about 3.5 billion people combined).

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Evento reúne especialistas de Brasil e Portugal em Direito e TecnologiBuscar caminhos para construir modelos regulatórios adequados para dar conta de demandas surgidas em função do avanço das novas tecnologias. Essa é uma das propostas do seminário “Tecnologias Disruptivas: desafios de direito e tecnologia no século XXI” que acontece nos dias 9 e 10 de novembro.

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featuring public health researcher and educator Caroline Weinberg, MD, MPH

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The March for Science went viral when it was nothing more than a name -- the very idea of a movement in defense of science in policy was enough to ignite the passion of more than one million people around the world. From January 24 to April 22, the movement lived on the internet, building on social media until it culminated in the largest science event in the history of the world.

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For the further development of its hybrid publication strategy – combining digital and print books and other media – the Institute of Network Cultures is looking for an
Intern with a strong interest in (digital) publishing

3-6 months, 4 days a week, starting February 2018

Andy Hagerman at Stanford Social Innovation Review: “Design thinking: It started as an academic theory in the 60’s, a notion of starting to look at broader types of challenges with the intention and creativity that designers use to tackle their work.

Paper by Mohammed Benali and Abdessamad Réda Ghomari: “Managing crises is considered as one of the most complicated organizational and managerial task. Indeed, dealing with such situations calls for many groups from different institutions and organizations to interact and collaborate their efforts in a timely manner to reduce their effects. However, response organizations are challenged by several problems.