Other News from Participating Centers

Public servants to go on blind coffee dates for innovation

David Donaldson at The Mandarin: “Victorian public servants will have the opportunity to be randomly matched with others for coffee dates, as part of the government’s plan to foster links across silos and bolster innovation.

Bangalore Taps Tech Crowdsourcing to Fix ‘Unruly’ Gridlock

Saritha Rai at Bloomberg Technology: “In Bangalore, tech giants and startups typically spend their days fiercely battling each other for customers. Now they are turning their attention to a common enemy: the Indian city’s infernal traffic congestion.

Innovative and regulated

Telemedius is a law internet project concentrating on questions of the information society. On the first July weekend they held their annual summer conference with the topic: The law of... MORE

Political Inequality in Affluent Democracies

RISE 2017

Malavika Jayaram, Executive Director, Digital Asia Hub, was a speaker at the RISE Summit in Hong Kong 11 – 13 July, 2017. She was a speaker on the panel ‘Nothing to fear in a connected Internet?’. 
About RISE
RISE is produced by the team behind Web Summit. In 6 short years, Web Summit has become Europe’s largest tech conference which last year attracted 53,000 attendees from 136 countries around the world.

U. de Chile integró reunión de universidades de la Alianza Pacífico

Tras el evento, el director ejecutivo del Proyecto de Internacionalización, Andreé Henríquez, destacó el reconocimiento regional que existe al compromiso de nuestra Casa de Estudios con el desarrollo del país. Además, enfatizó el valor de la actividad como una instancia para conocer experiencias replicables a nivel local.

Intelligent sharing: unleashing the potential of health and care data in the UK to transform outcomes

Report by Future Care Capital: “….Data is often referred to as the ‘new oil’ – the 21st century raw material which, when hitched to algorithmic refinement, may be mined for insight and value – and ‘data flows’ are said to have exerted a greater impact upon global growth than traditional goods flows in recent years (Manyika et al, 2016).

Open Data Blueprint

ODX Canada: “In Canada, the open data environment should be viewed as a supply chain. The movement of open data from producers to consumers involves many different organizations, people, activities, projects and initiatives, all of which work together to push out a final product. Naturally, if there is a break or hurdle in this supply chain, it doesn’t work efficiently. A fundamental hurdle highlighted by companies across the country was the inability to scale their business at the provincial, national and international levels.

​​NTU named world’s top young university for 4th straight year 

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​Professor Subra Suresh named President of NTU Singapore​

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Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals

UNDP: “In 2014, UNDP, with the generous support of the Government of Denmark, established an Innovation Facility to improve service delivery and support national governments and citizens to tackle complex challenges.

Digitaler Salon: Lost in Neuland?

The special event in July is dealing with digital election issues: German politicians have overlooked digital change. During the 2017 election campaign, we raise the questions: What goes wrong, how... MORE

Iniciativa convoca a científicos a abrir laboratorios a los jóvenes

Por segundo año consecutivo se realizará en la Región Metropolitana la actividad "Un Día con un Científico", instancia que busca que los estudiantes puedan experimentar durante una jornada cómo es ser científico en nuestro país.

Resistencia a medicamentos antirretrovirales habría aumentado

Estudios realizados en Chile el año 2010 estimaron que la resistencia transmitida o resistencia primaria a la terapia antirretroviral era cercana al 2,7 por ciento. Sin embargo, un nuevo estudio realizado por la académica del Hospital Clínico de la Universidad de Chile (HCUCH), Valeria Palma, señala que esta cifra habría aumentado al 7,8 por ciento. De mantenerse esta tendencia, podría implicar un cambio en la forma de tratar a los pacientes con VIH en nuestro país.

On the Biomedical Elite: Inequality and Stasis in Scientific Knowledge Production

Teaser

In this report, we examine the relationship between commonly used metrics and funding levels for investigators funded by the National Institutes of Health, the largest public funder of biomedical research in the United States, in the years 1985-2015. We find that funding inequality has been rising since 1985, with a small segment of investigators and institutes getting an increasing proportion of funds, and that investigators who start in the top funding ranks tend to stay there (which results in stasis, or lack of mobility).

Publication Date

V Colóquio Brasileiro de Direito Administrativo da Regulação “Regulação e Inovações no Sistema Financeiro”

Investimento: V Colóquio Brasileiro de Direito Administrativo da Regulação “Regulação e Inovações no Sistema Financeiro”09h00 até 17h00O Evento: O Colóquio reunirá os maiores especialistas da área e abordará temas como: Regulação Estatal e Novas Tecnologias, CVM e Mercado de Capitais, Sistema Financeiro e Crowdfunding, Riscos Globais das Novas Tecnologias Financeiras, Blockchain, Fintechs e IOSCO.
PROGRAMAÇÃO*
09h30 às 10h30 - Abertura | Regulação estatal e novas tecnologias

CSER team away-day

11 July 2017

Research Associate Simon Beard presents to the team.
The CSER team had a team ‘away-day’ on Monday 10th July to reflect on the previous year-and-a-half of operation and plan for the next year-and-a-half. We discussed what we do well and where we can improve; plans for several collaborative, interdisciplinary, papers; how to prioritise between the opportunities we have as a Centre; and what the next ‘phase’ of CSER should look like.
 

l Seminário Brasil - China

l Seminário Brasil - China 14h30 até 19h30O Evento: EM FUNÇÃO DA GRANDE PROCURA PELO EVENTO, ALTERAMOS O LOCAL PARA O CENTRO CULTURAL FGV QUE OFERECE MAIOR CAPACIDADE DE PÚBLICO

 

Report from “Black Sky” Infrastructure and Societal Resilience workshop

11 July 2017
“Our power grids are becoming ever more crucial. Cities will be paralyzed without electricity, and the lights going out will be the least of the consequences… everything else that urban life depends on is vulnerable to breakdowns, errors, or even intentional sabotage of the system.” – Prof Martin Rees
The report from the “Black Sky” Infrastructure and Societal Resilience workshop now available for download.

Are Indian laws really ‘open’?

Opening up India’s laws – the journey of Nyaaya.in, a non-profit legal tech organization in India