Madolyn Smith at Data Driven Journalism: “impactAFRICA, the continent’s largest fund for data driven storytelling, has announced the winners of its water and sanitation contest. Journalists from Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa and Zambia made waves with their stories, but three in particular stood out against the tide.
1. South Africa All At Sea
Think Piece by Heather Grabbe for ESPAS 2016 conference: ” In many parts of everyday life, voters are used to a consumer experience where they get instant feedback and personal participation; but party member
Chapter by Zoe Baird in America’s National Security Architecture: Rebuilding the Foundation: “The private sector is transforming at record speed for the digital economy. As recently as 2008, when America elected President Obama, most large companies had separate IT departments, which were seen as just that—departments—separate from the heart of the business.
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A book talk discussion and reception with the editors and contributors.
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Join the editors and contributors of the new book Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice (MIT Press 2016) for a discussion on the role of civic media in the changing face of democracy around the world.
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James Bridle in the New Humanist: “In a 2008 article in Wired magazine entitled “The End of Theory”, Chris Anderson argued that the vast amounts of data now available to researchers made the traditional scientific process obsolete. No longer would they need to build models of the world and test them against sampled data.
Bez takiego nagłośnienia jaki miała Cyfrowa Szkoła, rządowe, otwarte e-podręczniki wchodzą w kolejny etap.
Bez takiego nagłośnienia jaki miała Cyfrowa Szkoła, rządowe, otwarte e-podręczniki wchodzą w kolejny etap.
From November 12th to November 29th Dr Virginia Madsen and Dr Tom Murray from Macquarie University in Sydney (Australia) are Visting Fellows at the Research Centre Media History. The invitation to Hamburg is enabled by the MQ-FU-HAM Trilateral Strategic Partnership, a network program of the Universität Hamburg with Macquarie University (Australia) and Fudan University (China).
El artista falleció a los 90 años de edad este jueves 3 de noviembre.
En el marco de la 36ª Feria Internacional del Libro de Santiago, la Universidad de Chile a través de su Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones ha realizado diferentes actividades como parte de su programa cultural.
Renovando su compromiso con el país, y en el marco del proceso legislativo que definirá el futuro de la Educación Superior, es que la Casa de Bello conmemorará un nuevo año de vida, reuniendo a su comunidad en diversas celebraciones y eventos, entre éstos el reconocimiento a su investigación, creación artística e innovación y una muestra especial por los 110 años de la Federación de Estudiantes de la U. de Chile.
Integrantes del Centro de Ciencia del Clima y la Resiliencia (CR)2 son parte, por tercer año consecutivo, de esta conferencia anual que reúne a gobiernos, sociedad civil, científicos, entre otros actores sociales de distintos países del mundo.La ciudad de Marrakech es la antitriona de la vigésimo segunda Conferencia de Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (COP22), que se realiza desde el 7 al 18 de noviembre con una asistencia esperada de 30 mil personas entre delegados gubernamentales, oficiales de Naciones Unidas, organizaciones de l
Acompañados de familiares, colegas y amigos, más de doscientos integrantes de la comunidad universitaria fueron reconocidos en una ceremonia de despedida, realizada en el Salón de Honor de la Casa Central.
Greg Satell at Harvard Business Review: “In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle states that it is a fact that “all knowledge and every pursuit aims at some good,” but then continues, “What then do we mean by the good?” That, in essence, encapsulates the ethical dilemma. We all agree that we should be good and just, but it’s much harder to decide what that entails.
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Date: Wed, 11/16/2016[Bangkok, Thailand– 16 November 2016] – The Asia-Pacific region has experienced tremendous Internet growth in the past few years and is now home to the largest population of Internet users in the world. However, this rapid growth in Internet users brings with it a new set of challenges, warns the Internet Society, with security issues and their impact on user trust emerging as the existential threat to the future of the Internet.
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With 3141 participants in attendance, ICANN57 (held from 3-9 November 2016) was the largest public meeting in its history. It was also the first meeting to be held after the successful completion of the IANA Transition. The transition greenlit the enforcement of the provisions of the IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal, which consisted of two documents: […]
Every year, Canada's Médecins Sans Frontières (AKA Doctors Without Borders / MSF) meets for their Annual General Assembly. I know about this because two years ago their topic was "Is MSF missing the technology boat?" to which I was invited to speak about Geeks Without Bounds and community technology projects with the talk "Technology as a Means to Equality" (video broken because of issues with GWOB YouTube account, and with my apologies).