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Direito Rio e Instituto Mães SemNome lançam Cartilha Jurídica do Luto

Documento faz parte da série Cadernos FGV Direito Rio: Série ClínicasA Escola de Direito da Fundação Getulio Vargas (Direito Rio) e o Instituto Mães SemNome promoveram, no último dia 8 de junho, o lançamento da “Cartilha Jurídica do Luto: orientações práticas e jurídicas aos familiares”. O documento traz orientações práticas e jurídicas para lidar com as burocracias decorrentes da morte.

Rector entregó a ministra de Salud un plan de inversión para HCUCH

Este lunes 13 de junio el Rector de la U. de Chile, Ennio Vivaldi y el decano de la Facultad de Medicina, Manuel Kukuljan, junto a un grupo transversal de parlamentarios, entregaron a la ministra de Salud, Carmen Castillo, la propuesta que apunta a aumentar la capacidad de formación de especialistas del Hospital Clínico de la Universidad de Chile (HCUCH) y que contempla una inyección de $ 12.500 millones al recinto universitario.

#IranVotes: Political Discourse on Iranian Twitter During the 2016 Parliamentary Elections

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Iran's elections in February saw voters decisively sweep away one of the most conservative parliaments in the Islamic Republic's history, and deliver a fresh legislature far friendlier to President Rouhani's political agenda. But how was this victory won?

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Iran's elections in February saw voters decisively sweep away one of the most conservative parliaments in the Islamic Republic's history, and deliver a fresh legislature far friendlier to President Rouhani's political agenda. But how was this victory won?

शंभर वर्षापूर्वीचे ग्रंथ मराठी विकिपीडियावर

The article was published in Maharashtra Times on June 15, 2016. Abhinav Garule and Tanveer Hasan have been quoted.

Creating Simpler, More Effective Government Services for Everyone

The GovLab, Pivotal and the 21st Century Democracy and Technology Meetup recently hosted a talk by Jen Pahlka, founder and executive director of Code for America and former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer, on deploying simpler, more effective government services for everyone.

In Your Neighborhood, Who Draws the Map?

Lizzie MacWillie at NextCity: “…By crowdsourcing neighborhood boundaries, residents can put themselves on the map in critical ways.

The Ideal Digital City

Digital Communities Special Report: “With urban areas continuing to grow at a substantial rate — from 30 percent of the world’s population in 1930 to a projected 66 percent by 2050, according to the United Nations — getting the urban experience right has become paramount.

Civic Data Initiatives

Burak Arikan at Medium: “Big data is the term used to define the perpetual and massive data gathered by corporations and governments on consumers and citizens.

42° Nexa Lunch Seminar - Quali usi pubblici per i social media in emergenza? Spunti, evidenze e questioni aperte

Page Type: Eventlunch22 giugno 2016Giovanni Arata (Fellow Centro Nexa)
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Wed, 22/06/2016 - 13:00 to 14:00luogo: Via Boggio 65/a | Torino (primo piano)

How to find bad drivers on the road near you

Date published: June 22, 2016"“We’re losing some of the granularity between car and driver that we’ve had in other contexts,” said Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University.
What if “bad drivers” get tracked using the app’s notifications? Do you have the right to know where any given driver might be at any time, even if he or she is on the other side of town?

Social Networks and Protest Participation: Evidence from 93 Million Twitter Users

Paper by Jennifer Larson et al for Political Networks Workshops & Conference 2016: “Pinning down the role of social ties in the decision to protest has been notoriously elusive, largely due to data limitations. The era of social media and its global use by protesters offers an unprecedented opportunity to observe real-time social ties and online behavior, though often without an attendant measure of real-world behavior.

The Racist Algorithm?

Anupam Chander in the Michigan Law Review (2017 Forthcoming) : “Are we on the verge of an apartheid by algorithm? Will the age of big data lead to decisions that unfairly favor one race over others, or men over women? At the dawn of the Information Age, legal scholars are sounding warnings about the ubiquity of automated algorithms that increasingly govern our lives.

Using Behavioral Science to Combat Climate Change

Cass R. Sunstein and Lucia A. Reisch in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science (Forthcoming): “Careful attention to choice architecture promises to open up new possibilities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions – possibilities that go well beyond, and that may supplement or complement, the standard tools of economic incentives, mandates, and bans.

The Politics of Mapping Platforms: Participatory Radiation Mapping after the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster

Paper by Jean-Christophe Plantin: “The release of the Google Maps API in 2005 spurred a trend of mapping mashups, adding cartography to online participatory culture. This article will present how the affordances of these “platforms” give shape to the online participation of concerned citizens willing to access information during an environmental crisis.

Three Research Appointments in Computational Social Science

Political Bots on 21 June 2016 at 19:08PM We are looking for three talented researchers to join our team of computational social scientists at Oxford.  Ideally, we’d like to have one person interested in the sociology of algorithmic production, another interested in the policy implications of bots, and another in the computational analysis of political bots and botnets. The full job [...]

Bots, #StrongerIn, and #Brexit: Computational Propaganda during the UK-EU Referendum

Phil Howard on 21 June 2016 at 18:51PM Bots are social media accounts that automate interaction with other users, and they are active on the StrongerIn-Brexit conversation happening over Twitter. These automated scripts generate content through these platforms and then interact with people. Political bots are automated accounts that are particularly active on public policy issues, [...]

U. de Chile continuará en proyecto que busca apasionar por la ciencia

Desde el 2016 hasta el 2018 la Universidad de Chile acompañará nuevamente al Proyecto Asociativo Regional Explora de Conicyt RM Sur Oriente en el proceso de divulgación y valoración de la ciencia y la tecnología en 13 comunas de la Región Metropolitana.

Parlamentarios respaldan plan que potenciar formación de especialistas

El Rector Ennio Vivaldi y el director del Hospital Clínico de la Universidad de Chile (HCUCH), Jorge Hasbún, recibieron este viernes 10 de junio al senador Guido Girardi y al diputado, Daniel Farkas, quienes junto a un grupo transversal de parlamentarios, dieron su apoyo para la generación de un plan estratégico de desarrollo, que permitirá aumentar la capacidad formadora de médicos especialistas del recinto universitario, actualmente el mayor centro formador del país.

Las inscripciones para la PSU parten este lunes 13 de junio

Para rendir la Prueba de Selección Universitaria el 28 y 29 de noviembre, los postulantes deberán crear una contraseña personal de acceso.

Declaración del Rector Ennio Vivaldi a la comunidad universitaria

Ante el intento de ocupación de la Casa Central por un grupo de estudiantes y la decisión de la FECh de someter a consulta un eventual apoyo a dicha acción, declaramos que: