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Matrículas abertas: Curso online “Cultura de Periferia”

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A Arte nas periferias rompeu as barreiras geográficas e se expandiu para toda a sociedade. Venha entender como os movimentos sociais da periferia, por meio da tecnologia, se transformaram em uma cultura periférica globalizada, vencendo o preconceito e conquistando a inclusão social
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Transparency and the open society: Practical lessons for effective policy

Book by Roger Taylor and Tim Kelsey: “Greater transparency is increasingly seen as the answer to a wide range of social issues by governments, NGOs and businesses around the world. However, evidence of its impact is mixed.

Vorträge zum Thema „Digitalisierung und Big Data in der Versicherung“

Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren, eröffnet heute, am Dienstag, den 21.06.16, um 14 Uhr mit einem Kurzvortrag zum Titel „Die neue EU-Datenschutzverordnung und Big Data in der Versicherung“ das interdisziplinäre Symposium „Digitalisierung und Big Data in der Versicherung“ der Forschungsstelle für Versicherungswesen der Uni Münster.  Anschließend folgen weitere Vorträge aus den Bereichen Ökonomie, Philosophie und Rechtswissenschaft, u. a.  zu „Herausforderungen der Privatautonomie durch Big Data“ (Akad. Rat Dr.

Apple wants to know users better without knowing them

"While Google has used differential privacy to analyze user data from its Chrome browser, Apple is the first major tech company to adopt it more widely and publicly, said Arvind Narayanan, a computer scientist at Princeton University.  
“That’s what makes this so exciting – both for the technology and for the future of privacy protection,” he explained.
In terms of challenges, Narayanan said the technology could come with extra costs.

Tech Companies Fight Back After Years of Being Deluged With Secret FBI Requests

Date published: June 21, 2016"“Many small companies don’t read these things carefully,” Albert Gidari, a prominent national security attorney who worked on many cases involving such letters, told The Intercept during an interview.
He said that years ago, small companies would come to him for advice on national security letters — concerned they were not even allowed to get a lawyer. Things have gotten better since then, he says — but not a whole lot. “Small companies really have no advocate.”"
 

Proposals to curb online speech viewed as threat to open internet

Date published: June 21, 2016""This is the next evolution of political suppression," said Richard Forno, assistant director of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Center for Cybersecurity. "Technology facilitates freedom of expression, and politicians don't like that.""Reuters

Legislating Against Revenge Porn: The Constitutional Pitfalls

Date published: June 21, 2016"Revenge porn is a relatively new, yet extremely contentious topic. The act of violating someone's privacy in this manner, exposing their most intimate of moments to world is an indefensible act of sexual harassment that can cause immense psychological and reputational harm. "Criminalizing nonconsensual pornography is…appropriate and necessary to convey the proper level of social condemnation for this behaviour," argues prominent law professor, Danielle Citron."

Building digital trust: The role of data ethics in the digital age

Accenture: “The digital economy is built on data—massive streams of data being created, collected, combined and shared—for which traditional governance frameworks and risk-mitigation strategies are insufficient. In the digital age, analyzing and acting on insights from data can introduce entirely new classes of risk.

How #CatsAgainstBrexit could’ve saved the EU

Vyacheslav Polonski on 21 June 2016 at 00:32AM Analysing the Internet’s response to the EU referendum debateContinue reading on Medium » [...]

A Big Win in the Second Circuit for Vimeo and the DMCA Safe Harbors (Post 3 of 3)

What follows is the last of three posts on Capitol Records v. Vimeo.

Underestangin voters’ information seeking behaiviour

Taha Yasseri on 20 June 2016 at 21:30PM Jonathan and I recently published a paper titled “Wikipedia traffic data and electoral prediction: towards theoretically informed models“ in EPJ Data Science. In this article we examine the possibility of predicting election results by analysing Wikipedia traffic going to different articles related to the parties involved in the [...]

#Nofilter debate: Brexit campaigners still dominate on Instagram

Vyacheslav Polonski on 20 June 2016 at 18:36PM How the EU referendum debate is playing out on social mediaContinue reading on Medium » [...]

Internet Society Elects New Chair; Seats New Board Members at Annual General Meeting

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Date: Mon, 06/20/2016[Washington, D.C.] – The Internet Society today announced that its Board of Trustees elected Gonzalo Camarillo as the new Chair during its Annual General Meeting 18-19 June 2016. It also seated new Board members who will now serve a term of three years.  The Internet Society Board of Trustees is elected or appointed by Chapters, Organization Members, and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Ballet Antumapu: 45 años visibilizando el folklore de Chile y América

En las salas de la Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas fue que este cuerpo de baile y música comenzó a escribir su historia el año 1971. Con una trayectoria que ha llevado a este cuerpo artístico a diversos países de América y Europa, además de recorrer nuestro país, hoy el ballet celebra este hito en su consolidada carrera.Como una forma de diversificar las asignaturas de los estudiantes del campus sur, específicamente de la Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, fue que las autoridades de la época decidieron incluir algunos ramos a la oferta académica universitaria.

Talento ruso se presentará en concierto de Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile

El maestro Leonid Grin volverá a tomar la batuta de "la Sinfónica" en un programa que contará con obras de Glinka, Schnittke y Tchaikovsky, además del debut del pianista Andrei Korobeinikov, este 10 y 11 de junio.La influencia de los intérpretes y compositores rusos es potente en la música docta, no sólo en su ala más clásica, sino que también a nivel contemporáneo. Es por ello que es relevante que el talento ruso siga en contacto con el Centro de Extensión Artística y Cultural de la U. de Chile y los cuerpos artísticos estables de la Casa de Bello.

Con sala repleta se inició exhibición de cine gratuito en Casa Central

La película "La Colonia" del académico Orlando Lübbert fue la encargada de inaugurar la "Sala Sazié", espacio gestado por la Cineteca de la Universidad de Chile en conjunto con la Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones, por el que cada martes a las 19:00 hrs.

Investigadores estudian efectos de malnutrición prenatal en moscas

El doctor Patricio Olguín y un equipo de científicos del Instituto Milenio de Neurociencia Biomédica, BNI, y del proyecto Anillo de Drosophila de adaptaciones del desarrollo al estrés nutricional (DRiDANS) de la Facultad de Medicina, investigan cómo la malnutrición de las moscas afecta el genoma, la función visual, motora, y metabólica, entre otros aspectos.

U. de Chile propone creación de sistemas de alimentación sustentable

Huertos, reciclaje, cocina, compostaje y clases de nutrición, son parte de los temas que se tratarán el próximo 1 de julio en el Seminario Escuela-Huerto: Educación Pública por la Tierra y la Comida Sana, organizado por la Universidad de Chile. La iniciativa busca reunir información sobre las actividades e intervenciones educativas desarrolladas en el marco de la salud alimentaria y la agroecología local, para levantar una propuesta de educación autosustentable y saludable en las escuelas del país.

Entspricht das Beschwerdeverfahren beim Europäischen Patentamt dem Grundsatz der Gewaltenteilung? – Vortrag von RA Dr. Joachim Poggemann am ITM

Am Dienstag den 7. Juni referierte Herr RA Dr. Joachim Poggemann bei uns am ITM zu dem Thema „Rechtsprechung des Europäischen Patentamts ein Widerspruch in sich?- Eine rechtliche Betrachtung des gerichtlichen Beschwerdeverfahrens unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Gewaltenteilungsgrundsatzes“.

EU Code of Conduct on Countering Illegal Hate Speech Online: An Analysis

By Rishabh Bajoria The Code On 31st May, the European Commission (EC) announced a new Code of Conduct for online intermediaries. This Code was formulated after mutual agreement between the EC and Facebook, Microsoft, Google (including YouTube) and Twitter.[1] It targets the prompt removal of hate speech online through intermediaries. The EC stated: “While the […]