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The Project Coordinator will perform diverse research and coordination activities associated with various projects. S/he will join the Berkman Klein Center’s world-class community of scholars and digital architects, and work in close collaboration with faculty, staff, and fellows to advance a range of interdisciplinary, cutting-edge research related to the study and development of Internet & society.
Ethiopia has the second largest population of all African countries, yet its internet penetration rate is only 12 percent. Still, the country has arguably one of the most sophisticated internet regulatory regimes in the region. 2016 Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer...
Report from the II. interdisciplinary workshop «Privacy, Datenschutz & Surveillance» on 30.06.2016 in Berlin. Nach einem erfolgreichen ersten Workshop im Dezember 2015 (Workshopbericht) fand auf Einladung von Jörg Pohle (Humboldt Institut... MORE
Book edited by Concilio, Grazia and Rizzo, Francesca: “Within the most recent discussion on smart cities and the way this vision is affecting urban changes and dynamics, this book explores the interplay between planning and design both at the level of the design and planning domains’ theories and practices.
Thesis by Mary Houston: “The thesis focuses on the emergence of e-democracy in the UK between 1999 and 2013. It examines the part that policy actors have played in shaping the agenda. Emphasis is placed on how e-democracy is understood by those charged with developing initiatives and implementing government policy on e-democracy.
Tjeerd-Pieter van Staa et al in the BMJ: “Better use of large scale health data has the potential to benefit patient care, public health, and research. The handling of such data, however, raises concerns about patient privacy, even when the risks of disclosure are extremely small.
Date published: July 19, 2016"Riana Pfefferkorn, the cryptography fellow at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society, told BuzzFeed News that it’s become standard for both parties to talk about a balance between privacy and law enforcement needs, without taking a real position on encryption.
Date published: July 19, 2016""They're unwilling to shut down services and take a hit to their own ability to communicate," said Andrew McLaughlin, the former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer. "These services are incredibly useful to the government as well.""
The Journal
Date published: July 19, 2016"“There is a tendency of people to take one ride in one of these vehicles and then conclude that because they have not crashed over the course of 10 minutes that the system must be ready,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina professor who studies the technology."
PBS Newshour
A sus más de 90 años, la destacada actriz continúa en las tablas con una carrera que se cruza con el hito fundacional del teatro universitario el 22 de junio de 1941, unidad artística que este año celebra sus 75 años de trayectoria con más de 300 montajes, varios de los cuales contaron en su elenco con Bélgica Castro. "El Teatro Experimental significó mucho para el país, ese cambio tan radical de hacer obras de teatro con otros sentidos", rememoró la artista.
Este trabajo del Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación, encabezado por Beatrice Ávalos y Juan Pablo Valenzuela, analizó las tasas de retención de docentes nóveles en la década del 2000 y los factores que explican el abandono de la profesión, como son las oportunidades de desarrollo, los bajos salarios, la insatisfacción con el estilo de liderazgo de los directivos y las condiciones físicas de los establecimientos. Como señalan los expertos, retener a los profesores en las escuelas es considerado un factor clave para la calidad de la educación.
Conectar a equipos de salud de zonas alejadas con especialistas universitarios de grandes centros médicos a fin de mejorar la atención de los pacientes, democratizar el conocimiento y el acceso a la salud, son parte de los objetivos del proyecto Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes -ECHO por su sigla en inglés-, iniciativa que surgió en Estados Unidos y que hoy se extiende alrededor del mundo. Esta mañana el Dr. Henry Cohen, director ECHO Uruguay, visitó Hospital Clínico de la U.
Junto a la Dirección Regional del Consejo de la Cultura y la Universidad de Aysén, la Casa de Bello realizará la Escuela de Invierno "Diálogos entre ciudadanía y creación", iniciativa que se suma al trabajo que durante todo el año y de manera conjunta realizan las tres instituciones en la región.
Impulsada por Camila González, estudiante de psicología, el trabajo abordará la percepción social de la enciclopedia digital comunitaria, su carácter libre y más aspectos respecto a cómo se usa y se considera a esta plataforma.
La Asociación por la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos Colonia Dignidad, espacio que colabora con la Cátedra de DD.HH. de la Universidad de Chile, interpondrá el 11 de julio una querella criminal que busca esclarecer los responsables por el asesinato de presos políticos en ese enclave alemán.
Richard Waters in the Financial Times: “The “open data” movement has produced a deluge of publicly available information this decade, as governments like those in the UK and US have released large volumes of data for general use.
Pål Sundsøy at arXiv: “The present study provides the first evidence that illiteracy can be reliably predicted from standard mobile phone logs. By deriving a broad set of mobile phone indicators reflecting users financial, social and mobility patterns we show how supervised machine learning can be used to predict individual illiteracy in an Asian developing country, externally validated against a large-scale survey.
On the evening of February 1st, following one of the longest electoral prologues in American history, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas was declared the victor of the 2016 United States Republican Iowa Caucus. While only securing slightly over a quarter...
The Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School -- based at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society -- is seeking attorneys to join its unique practice and teaching team: a Clinical Instructor and one or two Clinical Fellows. These positions will round out and expand the Clinic's cohort of faculty and staff, which manages and supervises cases and projects involving intellectual property, civil liberties, privacy, human rights, speech, and beyond.
Job listings are available via Harvard, as follows:
The Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School -- based at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society -- is seeking attorneys to join its unique practice and teaching team: one or two Clinical Fellows. These positions will round out and expand the Clinic's cohort of faculty and staff, which manages and supervises cases and projects involving intellectual property, civil liberties, privacy, human rights, speech, and beyond.
Job listings are available via Harvard, as follows:
Fellow(s) -- http://brk.mn/CIF2016