El curso "Herramientas ciudadanas para una nueva Constitución Política" de la plataforma UAbierta de la Casa de Bello busca contribuir al proceso constituyente actualmente en desarrollo, proporcionando elementos de formación ciudadana a partir de los debates contemporáneos sobre democracia, política e institucionalidad, bajo una perspectiva crítica y multidisciplinaria.Este jueves 1 de septiembre comenzarán las inscripciones para este curso gratuito, abierto y en línea de la plataforma UAbierta.

By Ethan Zuckerman and Erhardt Graeff

Após o sua realização e reconhecimento internacional em 2014 e 2015, ocorrerá entre 28 e 30 de setembro, em Bogotá (Colômbia), a terceira edição do Fórum de Segurança Digital. O evento é organizado pela Organização dos Estados Americanos (OEA), com o apoio de parceiros como Microsoft, Symantec, Cisco e Intel. Neste ano, também haverá a participação ativa da União Internacional de Telecomunicações (UIT).

Location

United States

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Teaser

This white paper explores NYPD's adoption of Twitter and an ideation platform called IdeaScale that was aimed at allowing community members to nominate "quality of life" issues for resolution by the police. It examines the department's pivot to Facebook as an interactive communications platform following its experience with IdeaScale...

Publication Date

12 Sep 2016
External Links: Download from SSRN

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Na stronie Ministerstwa Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego pojawiła się informacja dotycząca otwartego dostępu do publikacji naukowych. Ministerstwo, przyjmując rekomendacje i zalecenia zawarte w dokumencie „Kierunek rozwoju otwartego dostępu do publikacji i wyników badań naukowych w Polsce” (dokument został przyjęty 23 października 2015 r.), udostępnia materiały mające wspomóc otwartość nauki, m. in.

Na stronie Ministerstwa Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego pojawiła się informacja dotycząca otwartego dostępu do publikacji naukowych. Ministerstwo, przyjmując rekomendacje i zalecenia zawarte w dokumencie „Kierunek rozwoju otwartego dostępu do publikacji i wyników badań naukowych w Polsce” (dokument został przyjęty 23 października 2015 r.), udostępnia materiały mające wspomóc otwartość nauki, m. in.

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Matt Bencke at TechCrunch: “Most artificial intelligence models are built and trained by humans, and therefore have the potential to learn, perpetuate and massively scale the human trainers’ biases.

How did Eurosceptic (leave) and pro-European (remain) activity compare on social media in the run-up to the EU referendum, and was there a relationship between social media users and votes?... MORE

Scott Calvert at the Wall Street Journal: “Several states, including Arizona, Kentucky and Ohio, are using their state prescription monitoring databases to send doctors individualized “report cards” that show how their prescribing of addictive opioids and other drugs compares with their peers.

Topic guide by Liz Carolan: “…introduces evidence and lessons learned about open data, transparency and accountability in the international development context. It discusses the definitions, theories, challenges and debates presented by the relationship between these concepts, summarises the current state of open data implementation in international development, and highlights lessons and resources for designing and implementing open data programmes.

Chapter by Judie Attard , Fabrizio Orlandi and Sören Auer in Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XXVII: “Governments are one of the largest producers and collectors of data in many different domains and one major aim of open government data initiatives is the release of social and commercial value.

By Luis Loria

 “People who think about social change in traditional political terms cannot begin to imagine the changes that lie ahead. Conventional reformers cast their programs in terms of national policies, or in terms of laws and central planning. But in the end, what will shape the future is a creative potential that inheres in the new technologies of electronic communication and machine intelligence.”

This blog post is part of our summer series featuring updates from chapters across the Open Knowledge Network and was written by the team of Open Knowledge Austria.
The last two months have been very vibrant within Open Knowledge Austria. We co-organized the monthly Vienna Open Data Meetup, but no other public appearances, because we had set up some major projects. We also had our bi-annual plenary meeting and the election of the new board.
First the projects:

This post originally appeared in The Wire on 02 September 2016. While the Aadhaar project is economically beneficial for the government, it is possible that its initially stated goals could have been achieved with cheaper and less intrusive technologies. If the Minister for Information and Broadcasting Venkaiah Naidu is to be believed, 97% of all adult Indian […]

Relevando sus aportes a la educación pública y al posicionamiento de las mujeres en el mundo público, la comunidad universitaria, junto a la Corporación de Graduados y Profesionales de la U. de Chile, homenajeó a la académica este martes 30 de agosto.“La Educación de la Mujer, un camino para conquistar un espacio en el mundo público” es el nombre de la clase magistral que dictó Emma Salas este martes 30 de agosto cuando la comunidad universitaria, convocada por la Corporación de Graduados y Profesionales de la U.

The official data shows that the platform has not enthused as many users as the government expected.

The blog post by Mayank Jain was published by Scroll.in on September 12, 2016. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

The division between professional media and user-generated content on YouTube can hardly be maintained any more. Web videos are increasingly more professional, especially because amateurs are often supported by specialised companies.... MORE