La destacada investigadora brasileña realizó diversas actividades en la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades donde se refirió a la experiencia de su país en materia educacional, específicamente al Plan Nacional de Educación de Brasil (PNE), que hoy se ve amenazado por el complejo escenario político.
Estudiantes, funcionarios y académicos de la Universidad de Chile, junto a expertos de diferentes facultades e institutos, abordarán semanalmente aspectos cruciales de la discusión con el objetivo de incidir en la Reforma a la Educación Superior, a partir de la propuesta institucional que construirá la comunidad universitaria.
Mobile Internet services have been suspended in Kashmir for the past 87 days. There has been a sharp increase in both the frequency and duration of ICT shutdowns in the past two years. We have been tracking ICT shutdowns since 2012 as part of our research for the Freedom on the Net- India Report (2014 & 2015). […]
New book edited by Rob Reich, Chiara Cordelli, and Lucy Bernholz: “Philanthropy is everywhere. In 2013, in the United States alone, some $330 billion was recorded in giving, from large donations by the wealthy all the way down to informal giving circles.
The feeds will be beamed to a video wall that stretches 21 feet across at the police’s command and control room.
The article by Tariq Engineer was published in Mumbai Mirror today. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
Este 21 de septiembre se celebra en nuestro país el Día Nacional del Trabajador de la Radiodifusión Sonora, declarado en 1991, fecha que tiene como antecedente el Día de la Radio, instaurado en 1942.
By Shilpa Rao When the security advisors of BRICS countries met in New Delhi on September 15, 2016, they emphasised the need to improve cooperation in cybersecurity to combat cybercrime. They also agreed to enhance cybersecurity efforts through information sharing and improving cooperation between technical and law enforcement agencies. This follows from steady and increasingly […]
The much-discussed IANA transition has finally been completed, now that the U.S. Government’s contract with ICANN for IANA Functions has expired. This brings to an end the governmental oversight of these functions, a plan outlined back in 1998, and transfers it to a global multistakeholder community. The Centre for Communication Governance’s coverage of the transition over the last […]
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Date: Sat, 10/01/2016The Internet Society Board of Trustees joins the Internet community in celebrating today’s historic milestone whereby the stewardship of the IANA functions will be transitioned to the global Internet community.
NationSwell: “…Community Solutions works in neighborhoods around the country to provide practical, data-driven solutions to the complicated problems involved in homelessness.
Gina Lucarelli, Tom Saunders and Eddie Copeland at Nesta: “The mountain kingdom of Lesotho, a small landlocked country in Sub-Saharan Africa, is an unlikely place to look for healthcare innovation. Yet in 2016, it became the first country in Africa to deploy the test and treat strategy for treating people with HIV.
“The U.S. Data Federation will support government-wide data standardization and data federation initiatives across both Federal agencies and local governments. This is intended to be a fundamental coordinating mechanism for a more open and interconnected digital government by profiling and supporting use-cases that demonstrate unified and coherent data architectures across disparate government agencies.
Mercedes Medina, nueva directora de Communication & Society
Sustituye al frente de la revista científica de la Facultad de Comunicación al profesor Carlos Barrera
Mercedes Medina.
FOTO: Manuel Castells
Carlos Barrera.
FOTO: Manuel Castells
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Sally McGrane at the NewYorker: “When Leo Tolstoy’s great-great-granddaughter, the journalist Fyokla Tolstaya, announced that the Leo Tolstoy State Museum was looking for volunteers to proofread some forty-six thousand eight hundred pages of her relative’s writings, she hoped to generate enough interest to get the first round of corrections done in six months.
Call for Evidence from The British Academy and the Royal Society: “…The project seeks to make recommendations for cross-sectoral governance arrangements that can ensure the UK remains a world leader in this area. The project will draw on scholars and scientists from across disciplines and will look at current and historical case studies of data governance, and of broader technology governance, from a range of countries and sectors.
This report is the first in a series that will examine the challenges of digital switchover in Pakistan by providing an in depth assessment of the prevailing market trends on the adoption of digital TV, its policy making and regulation in the country.
