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La qualità dei dati: concetti e misure

Page Type: Event20 giugno 2016Domenico Natale (Commissione “Ingegneria del Software” dell’UNINFO)
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AoIR 2016: Internet Rules!

The conference of the Association of Internet Research will take place 5–8 October 2016 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and is hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. Get your... MORE

The Obama administration wanted to open up government to citizen input. Why hasn’t it worked?

Author(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: June 20, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingBeth Simone Noveck is the Jerry Hultin Global Network Professor at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. Her new book, “Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing,” was published by Harvard University Press. I asked her five questions by email about the book’s major arguments.

୧୧ ବର୍ଷରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିଅଭିଧାନ, ଯୋଡ଼ିହୋଇଛି ଲକ୍ଷେରୁ ଅଧିକ ଶବ୍ଦ

News coverage in Odia daily Prameya about Odia Wiktionary's 11th anniversary on June 15. In this news article, the project's administrator Shitikantha Dash shares about a 10-day long campaign that encourages every single Odia Wikimedians to add at least one entry each. Mrutyunjaya Kar, administrator of Odia Wikipedia and Wikisource elaborates how everyone can contribute entries and correct mistakes in existing entries.

The article was published in the Prameya

What if Cities Used Data to Drive Inclusive Neighborhood Change?

Solomon Greene and Kathryn L.S. Pettit at the Urban Institute: “Policy responses to neighborhood changes that displace or otherwise harm vulnerable populations often come too late and at too great a price.

Transforming governance: how can technology help reshape democracy?

Research Briefing by Matt Leighninger: “Around the world, people are asking how we can make democracy work in new and better ways. We are frustrated by political systems in which voting is the only legitimate political act, concerned that many republics don’t have the strength or appeal to withstand authoritarian figures, and disillusioned by the inability of many countries to address the fundamental challenges of health, education and economic development.

​NTU jumps to No. 2 in latest Asian university ranking by Times Higher Education, up 8 places from last year

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From Alma Mater to Algo Mater

Data-based education offers individualized learning opportunities to schools and higher education institutions, allowing for more effective learning and wider access to high quality education. But how to protect highly sensitive educational... MORE

2016 First Year Orientation

The orientation schedule and time are found as follows:
Date:                July 1, 2016
Venue:             Room 313, 3rd floor of Mongkutsamatiwong Building
Dress code:    Students uniform or appropriate clothing
 
8:30 – 9:00    Registration
9:00 – 9:30    Faculty Tuition Fee Payment Session (13,000 THB)

*Cashier Cheque from any bank in Bangkok branch are accepted ONLY **Payable to: “The Faculty of Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn University

The Seductions of Quantification: Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking

Book by Sally Engle Merry: “We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet counting things requires finding a way to make them comparable.

Novos modelos de gestão de parques urbanos: o caso do Parque do Flamengo

Novos modelos de gestão de parques urbanos: o caso do Parque do Flamengo 09h00 até 13h00O Evento: A FGV Direito Rio em parceria com o Arq. Futuro realizará no dia 29 de junho, em sua sede em Botafogo, um seminário sobre a gestão de parques urbanos no Brasil.
O evento contará com a participação de pesquisadores do CPDE e CDMA da  FGV Direito Rio, representantes da Prefeitura, do Arq.Futuro e, terá como enfoque a discussão das modelagens regulatórias de gestão de parques urbanos, com ênfase no caso do Parque do Flamengo, localizado na zona sul da cidade do Rio de Janeiro.

Lançamento da Cartilha Jurídica do Luto - Debate: Políticas Públicas para o Luto

Lançamento da Cartilha Jurídica do Luto - Debate: Políticas Públicas para o Luto11h00 até 14h00O Evento: O Núcleo de Prática Jurídica da FGV Direito Rio e o Instituto Mães SemNome convidam para o lançamento da Cartilha Jurídica do Luto: orientações práticas e jurídicas aos familiares – Vol. 5 dos Cadernos FGV Direito Rio – Série Clínicas, seguido do debate Políticas públicas para o luto.
Palestrantes:
José Muiños Piñeiro Filho,  Desembargador do Tribunal de Justiça do Rio de Janeiro

A Big Win in the Second Circuit for Vimeo and the DMCA Safe Harbors (Post 2 of 3)

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

Ues estatales reiteran compromiso con prevención de consumo de drogas

En el marco del convenio entre las instituciones del Consorcio de Universidades del Estado de Chile (Cuech) y el Servicio Nacional para la Prevención y Rehabilitación del Consumo de Drogas y Alcohol (Senda), la U. de Chile se encuentra colaborando en la realización de un seminario nacional sobre calidad de vida y prevención, iniciativa impulsada por el comité científico de esta red entre ambas instancias.“Estamos en un contexto de articulación de un sistema universitario nacional.

Profesores de seis comunas de la RM se unen al programa Suma y Sigue

El Centro de Modelamiento Matemático, en conjunto con el Ministerio de Educación, dio inicio al programa "Suma y Sigue", que busca perfeccionar a profesores de educación básica de colegios municipales de todo el país.

U. de Chile realizará charlas sobre el proceso constituyente

Qué y cómo debiera ser una nueva Constitución para el país y cómo la comunidad universitaria puede ser parte de ese proceso son las interrogantes que guían esta iniciativa, que se realizará de manera simultánea el próximo lunes 13 de junio a las 12 horas en cada una de las facultades e institutos de la Casa de Estudios, en esta actividad que lleva por nombre "La Universidad de Chile piensa la nueva Constitución", y que contará con la participación de destacados académicos de la materia.16 académicos de la Facultad de Derecho realizarán de manera simultánea conferenc

La risposta del Centro Nexa alla consultazione pubblica sul ruolo degli editori nella catena del valore del copyright e sulla eccezione di panorama

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Fighting Racial Bias with Big Science: Calvin Lai on Mass Cooperation and Open Knowledge in the Social Sciences

How are mass collaboration and open data changing the ways we do social science? While we're used to thinking about data science as a major impact of computation on the study of human behavior, changes in scientific collaboration are driving even more fundamental change in the study of human behavior. In recent years for example, the Reproducibility Project: Psychology coordinated over 270 authors to attempt replications of published findings in psycholog.

Mapping the EU Referendum on Twitter

Mark Graham on 17 June 2016 at 15:19PM With the British Eu Referendum vote looming, we decided to take a look at what the sentiment for the remain vs. the leave vote looks like on Twitter.

The map above takes all geotagged tweets that were sent in great Britain between April 15 and June 14 and filters them by pro-leave hashtags (#leave, #britainout, #voteleave, #betteroffout, #no2eu) [...]

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