Este 17 de noviembre la Universidad de Chile continuó con las actividades de celebración de su 174º aniversario con la Función de Gala en el Teatro de la institución. En la ocasión, la Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile y el Ballet Nacional Chileno presentaron dos piezas artísticas que homenajearon a Cervantes y Shakespeare.A las 19:45 horas se abrieron las puertas del Teatro de la Universidad de Chile, ubicado en el sector de Plaza Baquedano, para que los miembros de la comunidad pudieran disfrutar de una nueva versión de la Función de Gala Aniversario.

Cómo se adaptan los programas académicos a la realidad cambiante de la sociedad, cómo se aproximan a mejorar la enseñanza-aprendizaje y cómo las comunidades aportan a estos cambios, constituyéndose en una institución que aprende y avanza, fueron algunos de los temas abordados en el Primer Seminario de Experiencias de Innovación curricular de la U. de Chile, organizado por el Departamento de Pregrado.

Beth Noveck in the Guardian: “We lack public institutions – a participatory bureaucracy and open parliamentary processes – that know how to tap into the collective intelligence of our communities, and draw power from the participation of the many, rather than the few.

Introduction by Mark Frank, Johanna Walker, Judie Attard, Alan Tygel of Special Issue on Data Literacy of The Journal of Community Informatics: “With the advent of the Internet and particularly Open Data, data literacy (the ability of non-specialists to make use of data) is rapidly becoming an essential life skill comparable to other types of literacy.

For immediate release

Dyfrig Williams at Medium: “2008 was a difficult time in Iceland.

...

The post Academic Symposium: Harmonizing European Intermediary Liability in Copyright on Saturday 14 January 2017 appeared first on IVIR.

Many in Silicon Valley say: thumbs down to fake news! Not so fast. Great satire can be fake news! That's because satire is often "pure fiction masquerading as truth," or even real truth masquerading as fiction. Plus, satire is legally protected. Don't throw the satire baby out with the fake news bathwater. Read how!

Location

United States

See map: Google Maps

Elizabeth Moses at Eco-Business: “Countries made many national climate commitments as part of the Paris Agreement on climate change, which entered into force earlier this month. Now comes the hard part of implementing those commitments.

Teaser

This briefing paper outlines preliminary issues that we noted while conducting a detailed study of hate speech laws in India. It teases out some of the major concerns that arise in the context of both online and offline hate speech, especially speech as potential incitement to violence. 

Publication Date

8 Dec 2016
Thumbnail Image: External Links: Download from SSRN

Teaser

Through interviews with leaders of civil society organizations (CSOs) and a review of existing literature, this study discusses efforts and interventions that CSOs have employed to counter racial stigma faced by the collective population of Afro-descendant youth in an attempt to understand and examine signs of impact related to hate speech in Brazil and Colombia, distinct from existing overarching studies of online hate speech.

Publication Date

8 Dec 2016

Author(s)

Teaser

This essay seeks to review some of the various attempts to define hate speech, and pull from them a series of traits that can be used to frame hate speech with a higher degree of confidence. In so doing, it explores the tensions between hate speech and principles of freedom of expression, both in the abstract and as they are captured in existing definitions.

Publication Date

8 Dec 2016

Author(s)

Nicholas Diakopoulos and Sorelle Friedler at MIT Technology Review:  Algorithms are now used throughout the public and private sectors, informing decisions on everything from education and employment to criminal justice.

According to a study conducted by Centre for Internet and Society last month, many of the most-commonly used mobile apps for food delivery, online payments, grocery shopping and transportation were not accessible to the visually challenged.

Mita Sarkar, a mother of a six-year-old girl who has cerebral palsy (CP) had to approach around ten private schools for her daughter's admission. She heard the same response from every school she approached: “Education is for all and we accept all children, but we are not equipped to school your child”.
The article by Akhila Damodaran was published in the New Indian Express on November 28, 2016. Nirmita Narasimhan was quoted.

Los investigadores del Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de la Universidad de Chile y del Núcleo Milenio Información y Coordinación en Redes desarrollan un modelo que busca optimizar el sistema de fiscalización del transporte público. "Stackelberg" es el nombre de este nuevo sistema de fiscalización del Transantiago, ideado por miembros de nuestra Casa de Estudios.

A missão do ITS Rio é fazer com que a tecnologia seja aliada no desenvolvimento do Brasil. No final de novembro, organizamos a Semana Brasil Inovador, que tratou de alguns temas-chave para o presente e futuro do país. Em dezembro, a equipe do ITS vai atuar globalmente para dar continuidade a essa discussão. Estaremos em três importantes eventos globais sobre governança da Internet, blockchain e governo aberto.
Veja abaixo e acompanhe.

Gonzalo Viña in the Financial Times (Special Report: Innovation in Healthcare): “When a top Formula One team is using pit stop data-gathering technology to help a drugmaker improve the way it makes ventilators f