Other News from Participating Centers

Project PiMaa is building low-cost, open-source data stations to support environmental monitoring in Kampala

PiMaa is an Internet of Things project in Kampala, Uganda that seeks to build low-cost environment monitoring stations and open-up any data collected.

ECS: General Opinion on the EU Copyright Reform Package, 24 January 2017

Overcoming ‘cyber-fatigue’ requires users to step up for security

As a new presidential administration takes over, it will need to pay significant attention to cybersecurity. Indeed, we’ve already been told to expect “a comprehensive plan” for cybersecurity in the first few months of the new administration.
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The science of society: From credible social science to better social policies

Nancy Cartwright and Julian Reiss at LSE Blog: “Society invests a great deal of money in social science research.

Citizen Science in the Digital Age: Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement

Book by James Wynn: “…highlights scientific studies grounded in publicly gathered data and probes the rhetoric these studies employ. Many of these endeavors, such as the widely used SETI@home project, simply draw on the processing power of participants’ home computers; others, like the protein-folding game FoldIt, ask users to take a more active role in solving scientific problems.

Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing for Earth Observations: An Analysis of Stakeholder Opinions on the Present and Future

Suvodeep Mazumdar, Stuart Wrigley and Fabio Ciravegna in Remote Sense: “The impact of Crowdsourcing and citizen science activities on academia, businesses, governance and society has been enormous. This is more prevalent today with citizens and communities collaborating with organizations, businesses and authorities to contribute in a variety of manners, starting from mere data providers to being key stakeholders in various decision-making processes.

Analytics, Policy, and Governance

“The first available textbook on the rapidly growing and increasingly important field of government analytics” edited by Benjamin Ginsberg, Kathy Wagner Hill and Jennifer Bachner:  “This first textbook on the increasingly important field of government analytics provides invaluable knowledge and training for students of government in the synthesis, interpretation, and communication of “big data,” which is now an integral part of governance and policy making.

Be the Change: Saving the World with Citizen Science

Book by Chandra Clarke: “It’s so easy to be overwhelmed by everything that is wrong in the world. In 2010, there were 660,000 deaths from malaria. Dire predictions about climate change suggest that sea levels could rise enough to submerge both Los Angeles and London by 2100. Bees are dying, not by the thousands but by the millions.
But what can you do? You’re just one person, right? The good news is that you *can* do something.

Tinder for cities: how tech is making urban planning more inclusive

 at The Guardian: “Imagine if next time you saw a plan for an oversized monster tower block proposed for your street, you could get out your smartphone and swipe left to oppose it? Or see a carefully designed scheme for a new neighbourhood library and swipe right to support it?

The Open Data Movement: Young Activists between Data Disclosure and Digital Reputation

Davide Arcidiacono and Giuseppe Reale in PArtecipazione e COnflitto: “Young citizens show an increasing interest for direct democracy tools and for the building of a new relationship with public administration t

Reflexionando sobre la democracia en tiempos de cambio de época

Los cambios globales desarrollados en las últimas décadas a partir de la globalización han debilitado la democracia tal y como se desarrolló en el período de la postguerra.

Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Chile celebró 76 años de existencia

En el marco de la primera función del Festival Strauss se conmemoró un nuevo aniversario de la orquesta, instancia que contó con la presencia de numerosas autoridades universitarias, encabezadas por el Rector Ennio Vivaldi, además del público habitual que llegó al Teatro Universidad de Chile.La Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Chile inició el pasado viernes 6 de enero su Temporada 2017 con un festivo programa que incluyó algunos de los valses y polkas más reconocidos de Johann Strauss -padre e hijo-, concierto en el que además se conmemoró el

Expertos mundiales se reúnen en encuentro de Ingeniería Sísmica

El intercambio de conocimiento, experiencias y nuevas soluciones para hacer frente a los terremotos alrededor del mundo son los propósitos de la 16° Conferencia Mundial de Ingeniería Sísmica (16WCEE, por su sigla en inglés), organizada por la Asociación Internacional de Ingeniería Sísmica, la Asociación Chilena de Sismología e Ingeniería Antisísmica y la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de nuestro plantel, entre otras instituciones, que fue inaugurada este 9 de enero y se extenderá hasta el viernes 13.Más de 2 mil expertos vinculados a la ingenier

Ariqueños podrán participar de actividades culturales y científicas

"Diálogos entre integración intercultural y desarrollo" es el título de la nueva versión de esta actividad tradicional de la Casa de Bello que este año se realizará en la ciudad de Arica, organizada por las universidades de Chile y de Tarapacá y el Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes.

Vuelve Noche Blanca al MAC: Dormir con música en vivo en el museo

La Comunidad Electroacústica de Chile (CECh) presenta por tercera vez en el MAC esta actividad para disfrutar durante la noche del viernes 13 de enero de un concierto de música electroacústica, que acompañará el sueño de los asistentes.Este viernes, desde las 22.00 hrs. a las 8.30 hrs.

María Angélica Figueroa recibirá Condecoración Amanda Labarca

Por decisión unánime, el jurado presidido por el Rector Ennio Vivaldi decidió otorgarle a la académica de la Facultad de Derecho el reconocimiento que desde 1976 entrega la Universidad de Chile a mujeres universitarias que se hayan destacado en el campo de su profesión, en el dominio de la cultura o en el servicio del país.María Angélica Figueroa, profesora con más de 50 años de servicio y dedicación en la U.

The Walking Virtually Dead: Entre uma Algoritmocracia Jus Constituendum e um Homem Virtual Transparente, Existe Espaço para o Direito a uma Identidade Informacional?

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Algorithmic Life

Review of several books by Massimo Mazzotti at LARB: “…As a historian of science, I have been trained to think of algorithms as sets of instructions for solving certain problems — and so as neither glamorous nor threatening. Insert the correct input, follow the instructions, and voilà, the desired output.

Big data and the measurement of public organizations’ performance and efficiency: The state-of-the-art

, , and  in Public Policy and Administration: “The increasing availability of statistical data raises opportunities for ‘big’ data and learning analytics.

Citizenship, Social Media, and Big Data

Homero Gil de Zúñiga and Trevor Diehl introducing Special Issue of the Social Science Computer Review: “This special issue of the Social Science Computer Review provides a sample of the latest strategies employing large data sets in social media and political communication research.