El experto en evaluación educativa y autor del libro "Tiempos de pruebas: los usos y abusos de la evaluación" expuso en el Primer Seminario Internacional en Evaluación Educativa "El futuro de la evaluación: tensiones, sinergias, posibilidades", actividad organizada por la Iniciativa Bicentenario y el Programa Transversal de Educación, entre otras unidades académicas de la Universidad de Chile.
El también académico y director del Departamento de Teatro de la Facultad de Artes pone en perspectiva la conmemoración de los 75 años de historia de este espacio fundacional de las artes escénicas en nuestro país, celebración marcada por la consigna de "Teatro abierto".
Desde noviembre del 2015, un equipo de académicos y egresados de la Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas trabaja con 17 recolectoras de hongos silvestres de la Región de Los Ríos, en un proyecto que incluye la investigación científica, la recolección sustentable y la puesta en marcha de nuevas formas de procesamiento y comercialización del producto.Changles, loyos, chicharrones de campo y digueñes son algunos de los hongos silvestres que se recolectan en los predios forestales y bosques templados del sur de Chile, y que hoy son los protagonistas del proyecto
James Kurose and Keith Marzullo at the White House: “Vast improvements in computing and communications are creating new opportunities for improving life and health, eliminating barriers to education and employment, and enabling advances in many sectors of the economy. The promise of these new applications frequently comes from their ability to create, collect, process, and archive information on a massive scale.
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Nesta: “This paper by Mor Rubinstein (Open Knowledge International) and Josh Cowls and Corinne Cath (Oxford Internet Institute) explores the methods and motivations behind innovative uses of open government data in five specific country contexts – Chile, Argentine, Uruguay, Israel, and Denmark; and considers how the insights it uncovers might be adopted in a UK context.
Nie tak dawno, 2 lipca, nowa ustawa antyterrorystyczna z przepisami zezwalającymi na blokowanie stron internetowych weszła w życie, a już kolejne ministerstwo pracuje nad tym, by blokowanie internetu stało się powszechną praktyką. Tym razem Ministerstwo Finansów przedstawiło pomysł na zmiany w ustawie o grach hazardowych.
Nie tak dawno, 2 lipca, nowa ustawa antyterrorystyczna z przepisami zezwalającymi na blokowanie stron internetowych weszła w życie, a już kolejne ministerstwo pracuje nad tym, by blokowanie internetu stało się powszechną praktyką. Tym razem Ministerstwo Finansów przedstawiło pomysł na zmiany w ustawie o grach hazardowych.
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We're pleased to announce that Michael R. Klein LL.M. ’67 has made a generous gift of $15 million to the Berkman Center. In recognition, the Center will now be known as the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
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We're pleased to announce that Michael R. Klein LL.M. ’67 has made a generous gift of $15 million to the Berkman Center. In recognition, the Center will now be known as the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
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Phil Howard on 5 July 2016 at 13:56PM Our #Brexit work was featured in the Quartz piece “Watch Out for the Brexit Bots” on June 22, 2016: From over 313,000 accounts sampled, a third of the tweets—half a million—came from less than 1% of the accounts, according to researchers Philip Howard and Bence Kollanyi. No human can manually […] [...]
Book by Manuel Stagars: “This book explores the power of greater openness, accountability, and transparency in digital information and government data for the nations of Southeast Asia. The author demonstrates that, although the term “open data” seems to be self-explanatory, it involves an evolving ecosystem of complex domains.
Alexander B. Howard and Patrice McDermott in Science: “Five decades after the United States first enacted the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Congress has voted to make the first major reforms to the statute since 2007. President Lyndon Johnson signed the first FOIA on 4 July 1966, enshrining in law the public’s right to access to information from executive branch government agencies. Scientists and others around the world can use the FOIA to learn what the U.S. government has done in its policies and practices.
Liesbet van Zoonen in Government Information Quarterly: “In this paper a framework is constructed to hypothesize if and how smart city technologies and urban big data produce privacy concerns among the people in these cities (as inhabitants, workers, visitors, and otherwise).
The Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality Group on 5 July 2016 at 10:13AM A short video interview that I did about digital labour markets at the ETUI conference on ‘Shaping the New World of Work’. [...]
Geonet Project on 5 July 2016 at 10:12AM A short video interview that I did about digital labour markets at the ETUI conference on ‘Shaping the New World of Work’. [...]
Mark Graham on 5 July 2016 at 10:12AM A short video interview that I did about digital labour markets at the ETUI conference on ‘Shaping the New World of Work’. [...]
Date published: July 5, 2016"While the new provision may seem great at first glance, the word “solely” makes the situation a little more slippery, says Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law professor who focuses on technology. Calo explained over email how companies that use algorithms could pretty easily sidestep the new regulation.
Author(s): Yana WelinderPublication Date: July 5, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingHacking of banks and identities is big business. An estimated 17.6 million Americans were subject to identity theft in 2014, mostly through breached bank accounts and credit cards. At this point, bank hackers are probably not looking for biometric data when attacking a bank. But even if it leaks as a by-product of a financial breach, criminals will find ways to abuse biometric data or resell it for further exploitation.
Date published: July 5, 2016"“This is the opinion of one court judge,” said Andrea Matwyshyn, a law professor at Northeastern University. “Other courts will, at best, find this to be data. It is information about the way that one court ruled in a particular set of facts. And other courts may choose not to analyze similar facts.”"
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