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Journalists are supposed to serve as “watchdogs” on the government. But how do they get access to the information they need to do that? In this episode, we talk to BuzzFeed lawyer Nabiha Syed about “freedom of information” laws — which are often the secret to getting government secrets.

Review by Lawrence Phillips, Chase Dowling, Kyle Shaffer, Nathan Hodas and Svitlana Volkov: “Social media (SM) data provides a vast record of humanity’s everyday thoughts, feelings, and actions at a resolution previously unimaginable. Because user behavior on SM is a reflection of events in the real world, researchers have realized they can use SM in order to forecast, making predictions about the future.

Mujb Mashal the New York Times: “These are some of the terms Afghan men use to refer to their wives in public instead of their names, the sharing of which they see as a grave dishonor worthy of violence: Mother of Children, My Household, My Weak One or sometimes, in far corners, My Goat or My Chicken.
Women also may be called Milk-sharer or Black-headed. The go-to word for Afghans to call a woman in public, no matter her status, is Aunt.

“Data Africa is an open data platform designed to provide information on key themes for research and development such as: agriculture, climate, poverty and child health across Sub-Saharan Africa at the sub-national level. The main goal of the online tool is to present the themes to a wide, even non-technical audience through easily accessible visual narratives.
In its first stage, the platform is focused on national and sub-national level data for 13 countries:

Last week, a nine-judge bench continued to hear arguments on whether a fundamental right to privacy exists. Our posts discussing last week’s hearings can be found here and here. Today, arguments were advanced on behalf of the states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and also the UIDAI. Mr. Sundaram, appearing for the state of Maharashtra, […]

Paper by Rajan Vaish et al: “Research experiences today are limited to a privileged few at select universities. Providing open access to research experiences would enable global upward mobility and increased diversity in the scientific workforce. How can we coordinate a crowd of diverse volunteers on open-ended research? How could a PI have enough visibility into each person’s contributions to recommend them for further study?

Autorem artykułu jest Jan Strycharz.

Paper by Dani Gunawan and Amalia Amalia: “Nowadays, public demands easy access to nonconfidential government data, such as public digital information on health, industry, and culture that can be accessed on the Internet. This will lead departments within government to be efficient and more transparent.

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José Piquer, Director de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicaciones de nuestro plantel, plantea en la siguiente columna la posibilidad de avanzar en una regulación de Internet, enfatizando en la necesidad de establecer medidas que permitan aprovechar sus potencialidades para fortalecer la regionalización, enfrentar desastres naturales y asegurar una cobertura equitativa a lo largo del país.

"Sweet Pekeetah" es el nombre de la nueva fruta desarrollada en la Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas de nuestro plantel. Dulce, crujiente y con la capacidad de mantener su calidad por un largo período, esta nueva variedad promete posicionarse con éxito en el mercado local e internacional. El "Sweet Pekeetah" señaló el profesor Rodrigo Infante es "mucho mejor que cualquier ciruela. En ese sentido nosotros pensamos que va a ser un éxito en el mercado".

Un aura de sospecha y dudas se levanta alrededor de los alimentos provenientes de plantas transgénicas. Con el fin de derribar mitos al respecto hablamos con la profesora de la Facultad de Ciencias, Claudia Stange.

Diseñado por académicos y especialistas del Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnologías de los Alimentos Dr. Fernando Mönckeberg Barros de la Universidad de Chile (INTA), el curso "De la desnutrición a la obesidad: Un problema de alimentación" está orientado a dotar a la ciudadanía de un mayor conocimiento y control sobre sus hábitos alimentarios, a fin de mejorar su calidad de vida.

The post IViR has moved to Roeterseiland appeared first on IVIR.

Longer and better living through personalised pills and nanorobots? What is the influence of AI on medicine? And what to do with the health related data? Discuss with us on 30 August!

Neil Levy at the Journal of Medical Ethics: “Nudges—policy proposals informed by work in behavioural economics and psychology that are designed to lead to better decision-making or better behaviour—are controversial. Critics allege that they bypass our deliberative capacities, thereby undermining autonomy and responsible agency. In this paper, I identify a kind of nudge I call a nudge to reason, which make us more responsive to genuine evidence. I argue that at least some nudges to reason do not bypass our deliberative capacities.

Book by Dietmar Offenhuber: “Waste is material information. Landfills are detailed records of everyday consumption and behavior; much of what we know about the distant past we know from discarded objects unearthed by archaeologists and interpreted by historians. And yet the systems and infrastructures that process our waste often remain opaque.

Texto originalmente publicado aqui, em 10 de Julho de 2017, no blog do Le Lab Legalstart. Tradução autorizada e aprovada pelos administradores do blog e pelo autor.