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Ningún cuadro psiquiátrico implica necesariamente conductas violentas

En Chile 1 de cada 3 mujeres ha vivido violencia física, sexual o psicológica por parte de sus parejas o ex parejas. En lo que va de este año ya han ocurrido 14 femicidios y en promedio anualmente son asesinadas 40 mujeres. Este fenómeno social, plantea el psiquiatra Jonathan Véliz, "habitualmente tiene que ver con una relación de poder, sensación de control y de ver al otro como un recurso o prolongación de sí mismo". La aberrante agresión que sufrió  Nabila Rifo en Coyhaique por su ex pareja reflota la problemática de la violencia contra la mujer.

Medicina U. Chile la única del país acreditada tres veces consecutivas

En su sesión de 12 de mayo de 2016, el Consejo de Salud de la Agencia Acreditadora de Chile resolvió acreditar a la carrera de Medicina de nuestra Casa de Estudios por un plazo de siete años.

MAC inaugura sala para exponer proyectos de artistas egresados

"La matriz del cuerpo" de Paula Coñoepan es la primera exhibición de la sala En Proyecto, que tiene por objetivo fortalecer el vínculo entre los artistas recién egresados de la Casa de Bello y las audiencias del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), asegurando una plataforma de visibilidad a los trabajos más destacados de esta escuela de Arte.Instalaciones escultóricas y sonoras, videos, animaciones y registros de acciones son lo que el público podrá encontrar en la sala En proyecto, emplazada en la sede Quinta Normal del MAC.

Kserokopia #37 (17 maja – 2 czerwca)

W tym numerze Kserokopii zachęcamy do zapoznania się z naszym stanowiskiem w sprawie wolności panoramy i prawa pokrewnego wydawców, akcją Copyfails o tym, jak prawo autorskie nie działa i tekstem odpowiadającym na pytanie, dlaczego mechaniczna analiza danych jest tak ważna. Piszemy również o braku działania Światowej Organizacji Właśności Intelektualnej na rzecz dostosowania prawa autorskiego do potrzeb edukacyjnych, przejęciu bazy SSRN przez wydawnictwo Elsevier i o ciekawych wyrokach ze Stanów Zjednoczonych i Niemiec.

Kserokopia #37 (17 maja – 2 czerwca)

W tym numerze Kserokopii zachęcamy do zapoznania się z naszym stanowiskiem w sprawie wolności panoramy i prawa pokrewnego wydawców, akcją Copyfails o tym, jak prawo autorskie nie działa i tekstem odpowiadającym na pytanie, dlaczego mechaniczna analiza danych jest tak ważna. Piszemy również o braku działania Światowej Organizacji Właśności Intelektualnej na rzecz dostosowania prawa autorskiego do potrzeb edukacyjnych, przejęciu bazy SSRN przez wydawnictwo Elsevier i o ciekawych wyrokach ze Stanów Zjednoczonych i Niemiec.

Doctoral Defence Inge Graef

Title: Data as Essential Facility: Competition and Innovation on Online Platforms

EU, U.S. sign data privacy umbrella agreement

Date published: June 6, 2016"Industry professionals warn of the economic consequences that the lack of certainty involving data sharing agreements could create. International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Vice President of Research and Education Omer Tene said the debate involving these agreements will “cast doubt on the viability of the existing framework and foments an extended period of uncertainty and risk for businesses in the US and EU.”"

Why is everyone covering up their laptop cameras?

Date published: June 6, 2016"Yet not everyone is on the camera-covering bandwagon. Brian Pascal, a privacy expert who has worked for Stanford and Palantir Technologies says a cost-benefit analysis led him conclude he’d rather have a usable camera, which he can use to record his son. But he acknowledged such stickers are a way for people signal that they too worry about Big Brother.
“Security actions without threat modelling are just performative,” said Pascal."

Prof.Amir Qayyum Guest Lecture at IIPL

Prof. Amir Qayyum, Dean of Faculty of Enginner, Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan, visited the Institute for Internet Policy & Law (IIPL) and gave an Expert Lecture to the BNU JM, LLM and international exchange students on Mobile Technologies and Relevant Governance Issues on June 6, 2016. Prof.

Big Crisis Data: Social Media in Disasters and Time-Critical Situations

Book by Carlos Castillo: “Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis.

Enhancing Public Innovation by Transforming Public Governance

Book edited by Jacob Torfing and Peter Triantafillou: “Rising and changing citizen expectations, dire fiscal constraints, unfulfilled political aspirations, high professional ambitions, and a growing number of stubborn societal problems have generated an increasing demand for innovation of public policies and services.

Prof. Xue Presented at the Global Facilitation Partnership for Transportation and Trade 2016 Annual Forum

The Global Facilitation Partnership for Transportation and Trade (GPF) 2016 Annual Forum, organized by ICC, UNIDO and ITC, was successfully held at Invest Shanghai, 15/F New Town Tower, Shanghai.  More than 80 representatives from the international organizations (ICC, UNIDO, ITC, UNECE, WCO. UNCTAD), customs authorities (Cambodia, Guatemala), private sector and academia joined the meeting and shared their views on a variety of trade facilitation issues in the nutshell of implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA).

NGOs urge PM to ‘resist pressure’ from U.S. on IPRs

Govt. to ensure transparency on engagements with the U.S. on IPR
The article was published in the Hindu on June 2, 2016.

A group of civil society organisations has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ‘resist,’ what they termed, “pressure from the U.S. and the pharmaceutical multinationals based there to amend India’s Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) laws”.

What Algorithmic Injustice Looks Like in Real Life

Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu & Lauren Kirchner at Pacific Standard: “Courtrooms across the nation are using computer programs to predict who will be a future criminal. The programs help inform decisions on everything from bail to sentencing. They are meant to make the criminal justice system fairer — and to weed out human biases.

A Primer on Non-Binary Gender and Big Data

 

Will the Constitution Protect Your Next Smartphone?

Date published: June 3, 2016"But these decisions don’t necessarily mean the debate over the Fifth Amendment and fingerprint readers is all wrapped up, says Al Gidari, a technology lawyer and the director of privacy at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society.The Atlantic

Addressing Challenges in Opening Land Data – Resources Are Now Live

Earlier this year, Open Knowledge International announced a joint-initiative with Cadasta Foundation to explore open data in property rights with the ultimate goal of defining the land ownership dataset for the Global Open Data Index. Now, we are excited to share some initial, ground-breaking resources that showcase the complexity of working at the intersection of open data advocacy and the property rights space.

While governments talk about smart cities, it’s citizens who create them

Carlo Ratti at the Conversation: “The Australian government recently released an ambitious Smart Cities Plan, which suggests that cities should be first and foremost for people:

Equipe da FGV conquista prêmio em Competição de Julgamento Simulado nos EUA

Bruna Brilhante foi eleita a melhor oradora das vítimas em portuguêsA equipe de 2016 da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV Direito Rio) participou mais uma vez da Competição de Julgamento Simulado do Sistema Interamericano de Direitos Humanos promovido pela American University, em Washington DC.

Combatting Police Discrimination in the Age of Big Data

Paper by Sharad Goel, Maya Perelman, Ravi Shroff and David Alan Sklansky: “The exponential growth of available information about routine police activities offers new opportunities to improve the fairness and effectiveness of police practices.