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El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la U. de Chile, invita a las familias a celebrar esta festividad con una jornada especialmente pensada para menores de 4 años en adelante. Talleres de animación y una performance interactiva con el público, serán parte de las actividades que se realizarán de forma gratuita y sin previa inscripción. Las actividades iniciarán el domingo 6 de agosto a las 11.30 horas, con el Taller Animación de Dedo, pensado para niños cuatros años en adelante.

Con el objetivo de que todos los que lo deseen puedan efectuar su inscripción en la Prueba de Selección Universitaria (PSU) en igualdad de condiciones, el período de postulación se extendió hasta el 18 de agosto, a través del sitio web del Departamento de Evaluación, Medición y Registro Educacional (DEMRE).

El investigador del Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación (CIAE) comenta los cambios incorporados al proyecto de Nueva Educación Pública, que postergan la entrada en vigencia de la nueva estructura que administrará a dicha facción del sistema educativo. Entre otros temas, las indicaciones sustitutivas plantean que se alarga de 6 a 8 años el proceso de implementación del nuevo sistema.

Robyn Scott & Lisa Witter at SSIR: “…Our research found that “disconnection” falls into five, negatively reinforcing categories in the public sector; a closer look at these categories may help policy makers see the challenge before them more clearly:
1. Disconnected Governments

Paul Francis at IAPP: “Back in June 2016, Apple announced it will use differential privacy to protect individual privacy for certain data that it collects. Though already a hot research topic for over a decade, this announcement introduced differential privacy to the broader public. Before that announcement, Google had already been using differential privacy for collecting Chrome usage statistics. And within the last month, Uber announced that they too are using differential privacy.

On 7 August 2017 Open Knowledge Nepal launched the first version of Nepali Open Data Handbook – An introductory guidebook used by governments and civil society organizations around the world as an introduction and blueprint for open data projects. The book was launched by Mr. Krishna Hari Baskota, Chief Information Commissioner of National Information Commission, Dr. Nama Raj Budhathoki, Executive Director of Kathmandu Living Labs and Mr.

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Seminário Portugal-Brasil - Tecnologia e Sociedade no Século XXI09h00 até 17h30O Evento: 
A Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Católica Portuguesa e o Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade da FGV Direito Rio realizam o Seminário Portugal-Brasil: Tecnologia e Sociedade no Século XXI, no dia 10 de novembro, no Centro Cultural da FGV no Rio de Janeiro.
O evento contará com a presença de autoridades acadêmicas, políticas e do mercado brasileiro e estrangeiro para discussões sobre os impactos das novas tecnologias em nossa sociedade e os possíveis modelos de regulação.

Maurice Chammah and Simone Weichselbaum at the Marshall Project: “Of the hundreds of photos from Charlottesville, Va., that circulated online this weekend, a few seemed destined to be cited as evidence of crimes. One photo shows three men beating 20 year-old Deandre Harris with poles in a parking garage.

Nilmini Rubin & Jennifer Hara  at the Stanford Social Innovation Review: “…the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) estimates that the United States needs $4.56 trillion to keep its deteriorating infrastructure current but only has funding to cover less than half of necessary infrastructure spending—leaving the at least country

Palestra: Direito, Startups e Empreendedorismo no Brasil09h00 até 12h30O Evento: Historicamente, negócios inovadores de alto impacto, tais como Airbnb, Google, Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox e Apple, têm sido responsáveis pelo desenvolvimento e crescimento da economia mundial, bem como mudanças profundas em nossa sociedade. A cada instante surgem novas tecnologias e, consequentemente, milhares de novas empresas, as chamadas Startups, que estão revolucionando modelos tradicionais de negócios.

Derek B. Johnson at FCW: “The Heritage Foundation…is calling for increased reliance on automation and the potential creation of a “contractor cloud” offering streamlined access to private sector labor as part of its broader strategy for reorganizing the federal government.

Over the past eight weeks, The GovLab, in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Mexico’s Secretariat of the Civil Service (Secretaría de la Función Pública, or SFP), held a series of online conferences to generate new, actionable ideas in the fight against corruption in Mexico.

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The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University today released a comprehensive analysis of online media and social media coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign. The report, "Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election," documents how highly partisan right-wing sources helped shape mainstream press coverage and seize the public’s attention in the 18-month period leading up to the election.

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"Un país que destruye su suelo es un país que se destruye a sí mismo", señala el ingeniero forestal Pablo García-Chevesich, académico de la Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservación de la Naturaleza (FCFCN) y consultor del Programa Hidrológico Internacional de Unesco, quien alerta sobre la situación que vive Chile respecto a la erosión.