Earlier I posted about the European Commission’s Communication on Illegal Content Online.
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United States

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El académico de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, quien es el primer chileno en ingresar al Internet Hall of Fame, analizó los desafíos actuales de nuestro país y el mundo en relación a la revolución tecnológica que ha significado el internet.

La iniciativa, desarrollada por la Dirección de Servicios de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicaciones (DSTI), permitirá generar informes de interés institucional de manera rápida y segura. Hoy se encuentra en su etapa piloto en la Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Desarrollo, y para el 2018 se espera integrar a gran parte de los Servicios Centrales de la Universidad.

The European Commission recently released a Communication on Tackling Illegal Content Online.
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Neste Bytes de Informação, Davi Teofilo e Victor Vieira explicam um pouco como funcionam Criptomoedas e o sistema de registros Blockchain. Confira:

Trecho explicativo sobre Internet das Coisas no “Café & Chat: Capitalismo de Dados e Big Data”: https://youtu.be/6UGG6u3f1tk?t=6m13s

“En política es clave saber manejar las expectativas”
Luis Arroyo, presidente de Asesores de Comunicación Pública, compartió sus experiencias con los alumnos del MCPC

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Sérgio Guerra é o novo diretor da EscolaApós 15 anos à frente do comando da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da FGV (Direito Rio), o professor Joaquim Falcão deixou o cargo de diretor na última sexta-feira, em um almoço em sua homenagem por todo o trabalho e dedicação prestados à instituição. Após um amplo processo seletivo, comandado por uma Comissão de Seleção formada por cinco membros, o então vice-diretor de Ensino, Pesquisa e Pós-graduação da Direito Rio, professor Sérgio Guerra, foi o escolhido em uma lista tríplice e assume a direção da Escola.

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The municipally owned fiber-optic network of Ammon, Idaho provides one model for U.S. public entities and policymakers seeking to increase service competition and innovation.

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5 Oct 2017
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Authored by Paddy Leerssen and David Talbot

Successes and failures in the use of digital tools in Catalonia’s rebellion
The battle presently being fought in the streets and polling stations in towns and cities throughout Catalonia before, during and after October 1, in which a diverse civil society has come together in huge numbers, putting their bodies and knowledge in the service of the shared goal of defending what is considered to be real democracy, has also had a crucial battleground in the case of the Internet.
September 7, 2017

About the Festival:
Festival of the Commons will take place on 6-7-8 October 2017, at the Athens School of Fine Arts. The Festival of the Commons unites the efforts of the Festival for Solidarity and Cooperative Economy and the CommonsFest.

Ausgangspunkt der sogenannten „HIT-Übung" (Hochinfektionstransport) war ein infektiöser Patient, der sich nach einem Auslandsaufenthalt zunächst im Gesundheitsamt der Stadt Solingen mit seinen Symptomen vorstellte. An dieses Szenario schloss sich zunächst der Transport in das Krankenhaus Bethanien in Solingen an. Von dort erfolgte die abschließende Verlegung des Patienten in die spezielle Sonderisolierstation der Düsseldorfer Uniklinik. Es ist diese einzige Station dieser Art in Nordrhein-Westfalen.

This blogpost was written by Chikezie Omeje,  Kunle Adelowo and Vershima Tingir as part of the Open Data for Development (OD4D) embedded fellowship programme.

Story by the Open Contracting Partnership: “….The “Cocido de oro” scandal is seen as part of a well-organized and well-informed youth movement that has sprung up in Paraguay in recent years.

Center for Cooperative Media: “Working cooperatively is nothing new, to be sure, but how frequently and impactfully news organizations have been collaborating over the last few years is certainly something new. Dramatically shifting business models, technological advances and seismic shifts in audience have lead to groundbreaking and award-winning collaborations around the world, including the Panama Papers and Electionland.

Justin Worland in Time Magazine: “…Out of that realization came a plan to reshape disaster management using big data. Just a few months later, Wani worked with two fellow Stanford students to create a platform to predict the toll of natural disasters. The concept is simple but also revolutionary.

Paper by presented by Anissa Tanweer and Brittany Fiore-Gartland at the Data Science for Social Good Conference: “Recent years have seen growing support for attempts to solve complex social problems through the use of increasingly available, increasingly combinable, and increasingly computable digital data.

Tina Rosenberg in The New York Times: “…No one knew where his family had gone. Then an African refugee in Ottawa told him about Refunite. He went on its website and opened an account. He gave his name, phone number and place of origin, and listed family members he was searching for.

The ‘platform’ metaphor is at once inevitable and misleading. What’s more, we no longer regard it a metaphor. Following Tarleton Gillespie’s proposal to complement the discourse with other images, José... MORE

“How did we get to accept that food, one of the three essentials for life, along with air and water, can be produced, distributed, appropriated and even destroyed on the basis of pure economic considerations?”

Rantzsch hatte den Verband bereits seit 2014 geführt. Der Auftrag sei klar, so der Düsseldorfer Pflegeexperte: „Nie war die Pflege in der öffentlichen und politischen Diskussion so präsent wie heute – das müssen und werden wir nutzen.