VIII Colóquio de Estudos Empíricos 09h00 até 16h00O Evento: PROGRAMAÇÃO
9h às 9h15 | Abertura
Rodrigo Vianna - Vice-diretor Executivo da FGV Direito Rio
9h15 às 11h | 1ª sessão: O Desastre da Samarco/Mariana
Reflexões sobre a dependência mineral em Mariana. Antônio J. M. Porto e Laura Meneghel dos Santos – Professor da FGV Direito Rio | Pesquisadora do CPDE/FGV Direito Rio.
Paper by Acevedo, Sebastián; and Dassen, Nicolás for IDB: “Los cambios tecnológicos, económicos y sociales de los últimos años exigen gobiernos capaces de adaptarse a nuevos desafíos y a las crecientes demandas de la ciudadanía. En muchos países y en distintos niveles de gobierno, esto ha llevado a la creación de laboratorios de innovación, unidades cuyo objetivo es promover de diversos modos la innovación en el sector público.
“WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama discusses what he’d like to see technology solve in government with WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito.”
Full Post: President Barack Obama on Fixing Government With Technology
United States Government Accountability Office: “Open innovation involves using various tools and approaches to harness the ideas, expertise, and resources of those outside an organization to address an issue or achieve specific goals. GAO found that federal agencies have frequently used five open innovation strategies to collaborate with citizens and external stakeholders, and encourage their participation in agency initiatives.
Paper by Christian Sandvig et al in Special Issue of the International Journal of Communication on Automation, Algorithms, and Politics: “Computer algorithms organize and select information across a wide range of applications and industries, from search results to social media. Abuses of power by Internet platforms have led to calls for algorithm transparency and regulation. Algorithms have a particularly problematic history of processing information about race.
Springwise: “Founded by a cyclist frustrated at the lack of local government action on enforcing bike safety, the Cars In Bike Lanes map geo-tags and time-stamps each contribution. New York City riders upload their photos, including a description of the cross streets where the incident occurred. License plate details are made visible, and users of the map can click to find out if a driver is a repeat offender.
Matthew Hodgson at TechCrunch: “…The original purpose of the web and internet, if you recall, was to build a common neural network which everyone can participate in equally for the betterment of humanity.Fortunately, there is an emerging movement to bring the web back to this vision and it even involves some of the key figures from the birth of the web.
Convoca in Peru: “…collaborative effort is the essence of Convoca. We are a team of journalists and programmers who work with professionals from different disciplines and generations to expose facts that are hidden by networks of power and affect the life of citizens. We bet on the work in partnership to publish findings of high impact from Peru, where the Amazon survives in almost 60% of the country, in the middle of oil exploitation, minerals and criminal activities such as logging, illegal mining and human trafficking.
Desde la Escuela Básica Canciller Orlando Letelier del Solar llegaron hasta la Casa Central más de quince niños y niñas para conocer el espacio patrimonial dedicado a la Premio Nobel, dependiente del Archivo Central Andrés Bello de la Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones, a fin de conocer su biografía y figura artística, en una inédita visita a este espacio.
Como parte del Primer Seminario Internacional sobre Prácticas Pedagógicas en Contextos de Marginación Social y Encierro, expertos latinoamericanos debatieron sobre esta materia, espacio donde Scarfó, integrante del Grupo de Estudio sobre Educación en Cárceles de Argentina, se refirió al desafío de una educación integral en contextos de privación de libertad.
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Author(s): Ryan CaloPublication Date: October 13, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingKate Crawford & Ryan Calo
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Author(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: October 13, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingChris Hayes’s book Twilight of the Elites came out to respectful reviews and respectable sales in 2012, yet the book’s real moment is right now. Better than any other book, it explains why Donald Trump appeals to many voters, and why the political establishment has such a hard time understanding his success.
The government is moving to formulate rules that will require technology ‘intermediaries’— including email services like Gmail, chat apps such as WhatsApp and Snapchat or even ecommerce firms like Amazon — to retain user information, a development that is expected to be met with determined opposition.
Shamina Singh in Governing: “Recent advances in data analytics have revolutionized the way many companies do business. Starbucks, for example, rolls out new beverages and chooses its store locations by analyzing customer, economic and other data. And as Amazon’s customers know so well, the company makes purchase recommendations to them in real time based on items they’ve viewed or bought.
According to the National Cyber Security Co-ordinator, a national encryption policy is under consideration by the government and will be released soon. It has been reported that that the new policy will be designed to provide support to security agencies against terrorists, who are using tools like encryption to aid in their activities. In our […]
This is a liveblog of a talk given at the Center for Civic Media by Mushon Zer-Aviv (@mushon). Any errors or omissions are the fault of the authors - Rahul Bhargava and Catherine D'Ignazio.
At the Data Journalism Bootcamp organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), a large part of the participants came from the Commonwealth of Independent States: Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Interestingly, the students were deans and professors of journalism departments who had to dive into a new field. The idea of the bootcamp was to understand how to start teaching data journalism at their respective universities.
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Date: Thu, 10/13/2016The Internet Society Announces Major Momentum in Internet Security Initiative and Encourages More Network Operators to Sign up