Other News from Participating Centers

Comunidad universitaria se reunirá a recordar la salida de Federici

Convocando a enviar sus imágenes, documentos y recuerdos en torno a este proceso, mediante el cual estudiantes, funcionarios y académicos se unieron para exigir la salida del primer civil designado para dicho cargo, la Universidad de Chile conmemorará este hito con el encuentro "29 de octubre de 1987: Una lección de autonomía universitaria".¿Dónde estaba yo cuando se vivió el proceso que condujo a la salida del ex rector Federici?, y ¿qué significó en mi vida esa experiencia?

Científicos de Chile y Francia proyectaron desafíos en envejecimiento

El encuentro, organizado en el marco de las actividades de colaboración del Foro Académico y Científico Chile-Francia, permitió conocer la experiencia francesa en estudios sobre deterioro cognitivo de la población y proyectar acciones de colaboración en torno a diversas iniciativas desarrolladas por investigadores chilenos.La progresiva similitud poblacional entre Chile y Francia, en torno características como expectativa de vida (82,4 años promedio en Francia y 80,5 años en Chile) y pirámides de población cada vez más octogenarias, fue presentada como uno de los principale

Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces

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with author John Palfrey, Head of School at Phillips Academy, Andover

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Often in today’s political climate our commitments to liberty and equality are set at odds with one another. This tension is nowhere more evident than when we pit free expression against our goals for a diverse, equitable, and inclusive society. This book explores these tensions and seeks ways to make progress toward shared goals, for campuses and societies alike.

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Prawo autorskie może prowadzić do cenzury – sprzeciwiamy się temu!

Internet z dnia na dzień staje się przestrzenią coraz bardziej regulowaną, często w sposób pośredni i niejasny dla użytkowników – w Centrum Cyfrowym śledzimy te procesy i reagujemy. W ubiegłym roku głośno sprzeciwialiśmy się ustawie antyterrorystycznej, która dopuszcza blokowanie stron internetowych bez decyzji sądu.

How the Networked Age is Changing Humanitarian Disasters

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featuring Nathaniel Raymond, founding Director of the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) of the Harvard Chan School of Public Health

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How is technology changing humanitarian crises? Is information humanitarian aid? Do we need a new Geneva Convention for cyberwarfare?

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Berkman Klein Luncheon Series

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Oct
24
2017
12:00pm

​NTU Singapore collaborates with IBM on a virtual tutor for future doctors

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Linux Foundation Debuts Community Data License Agreement

Press Release: “The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit advancing professional open source management for mass collaboration, today announced the Community Data License Agreement(CDLA) family of open data agreements.

The role of policy entrepreneurs in open government data policy innovation diffusion: An analysis of Australian Federal and State Governments

Paper by Akemi TakeokaChatfield and Christopher G.Reddick: “Open government data (OGD) policy differs substantially from the existing Freedom of Information policies.

Are you doing what’s needed to get the state to respond to its citizens? Or are you part of the problem?

Vanessa Herringshaw at Making All Voices Count: ” …I’ve been reading over the incredibly rich and practically-orientated research and practice papers already on the Making All Voices Count website, and some of those coming out soon. There’s a huge amount of useful and challenging learning, and I’ll be putting out a couple of papers summarising some important threads later this year.

2017 CPA-Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability

Introduction to the 2017 CPA-Zicklin Index by Morris Pearl: “In our modern financial system, investors, by necessity, delegate virtually all control over the businesses in which they invest to a board of directors. That board then, perhaps by necessity, perhaps not, often delegates virtually all control to the officers who run the company day to day. That usually works out pretty well.

Dossier: How metaphors shape the digital society

Cloud, big data, piracy, virus are common terms in the debates about digital technologies. At the same time they are methaphors that originate from other fields than technology. What normative... MORE
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Understanding the costs of scholarly publishing – Why we need a public data infrastructure of publishing costs

Scholarly communication has undergone a seismic shift away from closed publishing towards an ever-growing support for open access. With closed publishing models, academic libraries faced a so-called  “serials crisis” and were not able to afford the materials they needed for their researchers and students. Partly in response to this problem, open access advocates have argued for increased access, whilst also changing the cost structure of scholarly publishing.

Online-Ausstellung historischer Münzen

Erarbeitet wurde die Ausstellung im Rahmen eines vom eLearning-Förderfonds unterstützten Seminars unter der Leitung von Dr. Johannes Wienand. Um die Ausstellung technisch zu ermöglichen, wurde das Digitale Münzkabinett der HHU http://www3.hhu.de/muenzkatalog/ikmk/ funktional so erweitert, dass sich die in der Ausstellung gezeigten Exponate direkt mit den entsprechenden Objektpräsentationen im Münzkabinett verbinden lassen.

Urban commons initiatives in the city of Ghent: a Commons Transition Plan by Bauwens

Monica Bernardi, writing for LabGov gives a well structured overview of Michel Bauwens’ Commons Transition work in Ghent. 

Own everything! Together!

We live in times of high political turbulence. Surveying flailing governments from Spain to the United States, it seems a good moment to face up to the evidence of system failures that face us. Millions going to food banks or unable to afford decent housing in the richest countries in the world reveals a systems failure. An epidemic of mental health problems reveals a systems failure. An inability to deal with climate change reveals a systems failure.

Book of the Day: Integral Ecology: Toward a Perma-Circular Society

The following text was written by Christian Arnsperger and was originally published in Permacircular Horizons.

Love, Robot

Technical actors are increasingly developed and deployed for the field of care. How does this interaction between the human and the machine change our understanding of empathy? Can machines be... MORE
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Convocan a construir el archivo más completo de las movilizaciones

Sintetizar y visibilizar las diferentes formas de acción, movilización y expresión de organizaciones y movimientos sociales. Este es uno de los objetivos de esta iniciativa pionera en Chile, a partir de la cual cualquier persona podrá aportar en la constante construcción de éste, el archivo más grande que existe respecto a este tema en nuestro país.

UAbierta dictará curso para entender integralmente el envejecimiento

"Cómo envejecemos: una mirada transdisciplinaria", es el nombre de este programa cuyo objetivo es aportar conocimientos provenientes de distintas disciplinas para comprender esta etapa de la vida en su contexto actual como un proceso vital en sus dimensiones sociales, culturales y biológicas, además de proporcionar claves para el autocuidado que permitan experimentarla de forma saludable.

The Senate’s automated driving bill could squash state authority

My previous post on the House and Senate automated driving bills (HB 3388 and SB 1885) concluded by noting that, in addition to the federal government, states and the municipalities within them also play an important role in regulating road safety.
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