Other News from Participating Centers

FGV lança cinco novos volumes do projeto de História Oral do STF

Evento será realizado no dia 2 de setembro, às 11h, no Centro CulturalA FGV Direito Rio lança no dia 2 de setembro, às 11h, a terceira fase do projeto História Oral do Supremo, que consiste em contar a história do STF através da trajetória dos seus ministros nos primeiros 25 anos da Nova República, de 1988 a 2013. Os ministros que terão suas vidas relatadas em livro nesta nova etapa do projeto são Luís Roberto Barroso, Luiz Fux, Ilmar Galvão, Francisco Rezek e Moreira Alves, os dois primeiros ainda em atividade no Supremo.

Palestra: International Law and the International Refugee Crisis

Palestra: International Law and the International Refugee Crisis11h00O Evento: A Coordenação do CJUS, com o apoio da Cátedra Jean Monnet, convida para a palestra International law and the International refugee crisis, com o professor doutor Ralph Wilde.

Professor e alunos da Direito Rio participam de curso sobre BRICS na China

Encontro contou com participação de 31 estudantes dos países do blocoO professor Evandro Menezes de Carvalho e quatro alunos da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da Fundação Getulio Vargas (Direito Rio) – Bernardo Padula (4º Período), Eduardo Cavaliere (8º Período), Gustavo Cavaliere (8º Período) e Eduardo Soares (8º Período) – participaram da 3ª edição da "Summer School" do Centro de Estudos de BRICS da Universidade Fudan, em Shanghai, na China.

Prof. Xue taught at APRU Summer Seminar 2016 on Digital Economy

The Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Summer Seminar 2016 on Digital Economy was held in the last week of August 2016 in Tokyo. Prof. Xue, as a Member of Academic Advisory Council of The Asia Pacific Institute for the Digital Economy (APIDE) joined the seminar and taught at several sessions to the governmental officers from the APEC economies. Prof.

White House, Transportation Dept. want help using open data to prevent traffic crashes

Samantha Ehlinger in FedScoop: “The Transportation Department is looking for public input on how to better interpret and use data on fatal crashes after 2015 data revealed a startling spike of 7.2 percent more deaths in traffic accidents that year.

Questioning Big Data: Crowdsourcing crisis data towards an inclusive humanitarian response

Femke Mulder, Julie Ferguson, Peter Groenewegen, Kees Boersma, and Jeroen Wolbers in Big Data and Society: “The aim of this paper is to critically explore whether crowdsourced Big Data enables an inclusive humanitarian response at times of crisis. We argue that all data, including Big Data, are socially constructed artefacts that reflect the contexts and processes of their creation.

Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence: Crowdsourcing Approach

Literature review by Sanket Subhash Khanwalkar: “Despite heavy investment by the United States and several other national governments, terrorism related problems are rising at an alarming rate. Lone-wolf terrorism, in particular, in the last decade, has caused 70% of all terrorism related deaths in the US and the West. This literature survey describes lone-wolf terrorism in detail to analyse its structure, characteristics, strengths and weaknesses.

Rethinking Nudge: Libertarian paternalism and classical utilitarianism

Smart Economy in Smart Cities

Book edited by Vinod Kumar, T. M.: “The present book highlights studies that show how smart cities promote urban economic development. The book surveys the state of the art of Smart City Economic Development through a literature survey. The book uses 13 in depth city research case studies in 10 countries such as the North America, Europe, Africa and Asia to explain how a smart economy changes the urban spatial system and vice versa.

Internet Society Study Points to Reasons for Slow Internet Growth in Africa

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Date: Tue, 08/30/2016Launches “Promoting Content in Africa” at African Peering and Interconnection Forum in Tanzania

Make Data Sharing Routine to Prepare for Public Health Emergencies

Académicos asesoran a Ministerio de Educación de El Salvador

El Departamento de Estudios Pedagógicos (DEP) de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades inició esta semana en San Salvador una experiencia de trabajo con docentes de ese país para impulsar la formación ciudadana. Se trata de la primera iniciativa en este campo que espera contribuir al fortalecimiento de la democracia y la ciudadanía en el contexto latinoamericano. Este proyecto es parte del Convenio Marco entre la Casa de Bello y la U. de El Salvador.

U. de Chile analizó perspectivas de la Educación Continua

El primer Encuentro de Educación Continua (EC) contó con la participación de 37 unidades pertenecientes a más de 12 facultades para reflexionar en torno a su significado y rol en la Educación Superior, intercambiar experiencias y aportar a la construcción de la política universitaria al respecto. "La EC nos presenta la oportunidad de llegar a mucha gente que no se formó en el pregrado con nosotros, a los cuales podemos transmitir nuestra forma de ver el mundo desde la vida académica como Universidad de Chile", destacó el Rector Vivaldi.

Ballet Antumapu celebrará el Día Mundial del Folklore

El sábado 20 de agosto del 2016 a las 10 de la mañana comenzará el evento con el desfile de grupos folklóricos por la calzada sur de la Alameda y hasta el mediodía, entre las calles Carmen y San Diego, para luego trasladarse a un escenario en el Parque San Borja, donde a partir de las 13 horas continuará esta celebración con la presentación en vivo de las delegaciones participantes y otras actividades hasta las 20 horas.

Data Xgen launches paid Hindi email service

Jaipur based Enterprise email provider Data Xgen Technologies has launched a paid email service in Hindi Devnagari script. This is especially for .bharat domain names, but can also be used for other domains. As of now, the company offers email packages starting at Rs 99, Rs 499, Rs 999 and Rs 1,499, which look like monthly plans.

The blog post by Sneha Johari was published in Medianama on August 29, 2016.

Pokemon in the Arab region : Go? Or No Go ?

Since its release on July 6th, Pokemon Go acquired an immediate success and captured the attention of more than 15 million users in the first week. A phenomenon of 200 million dollars income worldwide. The game suggests a virtual reality where users hunt Pokemons using GPS and a map of the roads and the buildings surrounding them. During the capturing […]
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Pokemon in the Arab region : Go? Or No Go ?

Since its release on July 6th, Pokemon Go acquired an immediate success and captured the attention of more than 15 million users in the first week. A phenomenon of 200 million dollars income worldwide. The game suggests a virtual reality where users hunt Pokemons using GPS and a map of the roads and the buildings surrounding them. During the capturing […]

Pokemon in the Arab region : Go? Or No Go ?

Since its release on July 6th, Pokemon Go acquired an immediate success and captured the attention of more than 15 million users in the first week. A phenomenon of 200 million dollars income worldwide.

Achieving Open Justice through Citizen Participation and Transparency

Book edited by Carlos E. Jiménez-Gómez and Mila Gascó-Hernández: “Open government initiatives have become a defining goal for public administrators around the world. However, progress is still necessary outside of the executive and legislative sectors.

A new pilot phase for Promise Tracker in Brazil

We are excited to share that over the summer we teamed up with Humanitas360 and the University of São Paulo’s CoLab for Development and Participation (CoLab) to launch a second pilot phase of Promise Tracker in Brazil. Throughout the remainder of 2016 we'll be working with a range of civil society partners to develop case studies on the use of Promise Tracker in different cities and explore new methodologies for assessing impact.