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On October 2, the Bangladeshi government inaugurated Smart National ID cards (NID) as part of their Digital Bangladesh initiative, aiming to distribute the cards to 100 million people in Bangladesh.
The campaign, which allows users to send Modi quotes on themes like Ayodhya and the perfidy of the Opposition, raises questions about the boundaries between government, party and personal promotion.
The article by Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty was published in the Wire on October 29, 2016. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
This Diwali is going to be a cracker of a festival for Nisha Chanderwal, a second year BA student.
The article by KumKum Dasgupta was published in the Hindustan Times on October 28, 2016. Pranesh Prakash and Rohini Lakshané were quoted.
Paper by Tanja Aitamurto that: “… examines the impact of crowdsourcing on a policymaking process by using a novel data analytics tool called Civic CrowdAnalytics, applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods such as concept extraction, word association and sentiment analysis.
Paper by Alessandro Acquisti et al: “Advancements in information technology often task users with complex and consequential privacy and security decisions. A growing body of research has investigated individuals’ choices in the presence of privacy and information security trade-offs, the decision-making hurdles affecting those choices, and ways to mitigate those hurdles. This article provides a multi-disciplinary assessment of the literature pertaining to privacy and security decision making.
Thesis by Yiftach Nagar: “This dissertation consists of three essays that advance our understanding of collective-intelligence: how it works, how it can be used, and how it can be augmented. I combine theoretical and empirical work, spanning qualitative inquiry, lab experiments, and design, exploring how novel ways of organizing, enabled by advancements in information technology, can help us work better, innovate, and solve complex problems.
Jenna Wortham at The New York Times: “…“Fixing” problems with technology often just creates more problems, largely because technology is never developed in a neutral way: It embodies the values and biases of the people who create it. Crime-predicting software, celebrated when it was introduced in police departments around the country, turned out to reinforce discriminatory policing.
Report by Jean-Gabriel Bankier and Promita Chatterji: “It is time to reassess how we talk about the impact of open access.
Thomas Kohnstamm on Alberto Cairo, Power BI & the rise of data journalism for Microsoft Stories: “From the election of Pope Francis to the passing of Nelson Mandela to Miley Cyrus’ MTV #twerk heard ’round the world, 2013 was full of big headlines and viral hits. Yet The New York Times’ top story of the year was the humble result of a vocabulary survey of 350,000 randomly selected Americans conducted by a then-intern at the paper.
Entre el 7 y 11 de noviembre se realizará la segunda versión de este cónclave científico coorganizado por nuestra Casa de Estudios, donde se abordarán ámbitos del quehacer científico que van desde la astronomía, biología, matemáticas aplicadas, ecología, ciencias sociales, acuicultura, minería y metalurgia, sismología y desastres naturales, entre otros.Más de 200 científicos de las principales universidades de Chile y Japón participarán en el encuentro Chile-Japan Academic Forum 2016, segunda versión de este encuentro bianual organizado por
Last week, a seven Judge bench of the Supreme Court commenced hearing the much-anticipated appeals to decide the scope of Sections 123 (3) of the Representation of People Act, 1951 (“RPA”), arising out of the “Hindutva cases”. However, on Tuesday, the Constitution bench caused a stir by stating that it will not reconsider its 1996 […]
La autoridad de la entidad brasileña visitó al Rector Ennio Vivaldi y participó en una jornada de trabajo conjunto para identificar áreas específicas de vinculación. Ambas instituciones buscan generar un polo de colaboración e intercambio regional junto a las más reconocidas instituciones de educación superior de Latinoamérica y el mundo.Un interés concreto de avanzar en distintas áreas de cooperación con la Universidad de Chile manifestó el rector de la Universidad de Sao Paulo, doctor Marco Antonio Zago, durante la visita que realizó la semana pasada a nuestro país.
En la cuarta versión de los Encuentros Temáticos Transversales del proceso de discusión interna de la U.
Los académicos de la Universidad de Chile e investigadores del Instituto Milenio para el estudio de Imperfecciones del Mercado y Políticas Públicas, Benjamín Villena y Matteo Triossi, analizaron el posible escenario económico post elecciones y exploran la hipótesis en la cual el impacto de los tratados de libre comercio en Estados Unidos -que se traducen en una posible pérdida de empleos y disminución del poder adquisitivo de la clase media- han influido en el éxito de Donald Trump.La política en el mundo occidental parece haber entrado en una fase de polarización.
Obras de teatro, lanzamientos de libros -de académicos y egresados-, conversatorios y talleres forman parte de las actividades de la Casa de Bello en el marco de la edición 2016 de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Santiago (FILSA), cita que tendrá a México como país invitado, destacando las actividades del Observatorio del Libro y la Lectura, de la Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones de la U.
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Mr. Salman Khurshid, appearing on behalf of one of the Respondents in the first appeal commenced his arguments on the issue surrounding the interpretation of Sections 98 and 99 of the RPA. On the nature of the trial under Section 98, Mr. Khurshid submitted that it was a hybrid trial i.e. it had both civil […]
The Center for Internet and Society just wrapped up its Law, Borders, and Speech Conference.
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