• The first Orientation for M.A. in Strategic Communication Management 2016
Date: July 8, 2016
Time: Registration: 5.30 p.m.
Orientation: 6.00 p.m.
Venue Room 609, 6th floor Mongkutsamatiwong Building
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The news from PTI was mirrored in the Economic Times on June 7, 2016. CIS was one of the NGOs that have advised the Prime Minister of India on IPR.
Matt Lawyue and Kathryn Pettit at Next City: “Imagine if every community nationwide had access to their own data — data on which children are missing too many days of school, which neighborhoods are becoming unaffordable, or where more mothers are getting better access to prenatal care.
Launched in April, the Open Governance Research Exchange (OGRX) seeks to improve the evidence base on how to change the way we solve problems and make decisions by curating and making accessible a diversity of findings on innovations in governance. We are delighted to share some recent updates:
CONTENT: The site has since expanded substantially with dozens of new publications added and shared across topic areas like behavioral science and nudges, citizen engagement and crowdsourcing, and open data.
In Europa is het gegevensbeschermingsrecht het belangrijkste juridische instrument om privacy te beschermen en een behoorlijke omgang met persoonsgegevens te bevorderen. Het gegevensbeschermingsrecht is alleen van toepassing als ‘persoonsgegevens’ verwerkt worden. Er is veel discussie over de vraag of het gegevensbeschermingsrecht van toepassing is als bedrijven gegevens over mensen verwerken maar daar geen naam aan koppelen. Zulke gegevens worden bijvoorbeeld gebruikt voor behavioural targeting.
Michael Reilly at MIT Technology Review: “In the world of cancer treatment, early diagnosis can mean the difference between being cured and being handed a death sentence. At the very least, catching a tumor early increases a patient’s chances of living longer.
Researchers at Microsoft think they may know of a tool that could help detect cancers before you even think to go to a doctor: your search engine.
Mark Scott at the New York Times: “…For the town’s residents, more than half of whom have Twitter accounts, their main way to communicate with local government officials is now the social network. Need to see the local doctor? Send a quick Twitter message to book an appointment. See something suspicious? Let Jun’s policeman know with a tweet.
In: I have a friend who knows someone who bought a video, once. On collecting video art, Milaan: Mousse Publishing 2016, p. 105-109.
Over de auteursrechtelijke en economische implicaties van videokunst.
Jason Shueh at GovTech: “The U.S. spends $270 billion on incarceration each year, has a prison population of about 2.2 million and an incarceration rate that’s spiked 220 percent since the 1980s. But with the advent of data science, White House officials are asking experts for help.
Entidades del mundo de las telecomunicaciones, el retail, la industria automotriz y los servicios de salud, entre otras, fueron destacadas esta mañana entre las más innovadoras de nuestro país, de acuerdo al Ránking de Percepción de InnovAccion 2016 de la iniciativa Best Place to Innovate.
Con el objetivo de impulsar proyectos triestamentales y multidisciplinarios que fomenten la vinculación de la Universidad con la sociedad, la Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones abrió por sexto año consecutivo la postulación para este fondo que será adjudicado a cinco iniciativas en las que deben participar estudiantes, funcionarios y académicos.Entre el 30 de mayo y el 24 de junio se recibirán los perfiles de los proyectos que deseen postular a un monto máximo de 10 millones de pesos cada uno que entrega el Fondo Concursable Valentín Letelier (FVL)
Działać razem – jak to łatwo powiedzieć. Uniwersytety w Holandii robią to! W ramach stowarzyszenia wszystkich holenderskich uczelni wyższych wspólnie negocjują sprawne i skuteczne wdrażanie otwartości w nauce.
Działać razem – jak to łatwo powiedzieć. Uniwersytety w Holandii robią to! W ramach stowarzyszenia wszystkich holenderskich uczelni wyższych wspólnie negocjują sprawne i skuteczne wdrażanie otwartości w nauce.
Poor policy decisions in Cameroon have impeded the growth of affordable, real broadband services that are taking off in many of the continent’s leading economies. Although the introduction of bundled products by Orange Cameroon has significantly reduced the price for mobile prepaid services, the country lags behind its African peers in the deployment of 3G services due to protectionist policies and weak regulatory environment. ADSL services are offered at exorbitant prices and at virtually narrowband speeds, way below the levels reached
Voice and SMS revenues have been eroded by the increasing use of IP-based services such as instant messaging and voice over IP (VoIP). African operators have reacted to this change in the telecommunications market by providing bundling voice, SMS and data services. In South Africa, only MTN and Cell C have introduced prepaid bundled services. Such bundles however are not cheap.
Date published: June 9, 2016“With Go or chess or Space Invaders, the goal is to win, and we know what winning looks like,” says Lin. “But in ethical decision-making, there is no clear goal. That’s the whole trick. Is the goal to save as many lives as possible? Is the goal to not have the responsibility for killing? There is a conflict in the first principles.”Wired
Date published: June 9, 2016""Silicon Valley is full of secret projects: Flying cars are almost quaint by comparison (since people have been proposing them for decades)," Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law who studies the technology, tells the Monitor in an email. "They will raise pretty significant environmental and equity concerns.""
The Christian Science Monitor