Next Monday, May 23rd, governments, non-profit organizations and citizen groups will gather in Istanbul at the first World Humanitarian Summit. A range of important issues will be on the agenda, not least of which the refugee crisis confronting the Middle East and Europe. Also on the agenda will be an issue of growing importance and relevance, even if it does not generate front-page headlines: the increasing potential (and use) of data in the humanitarian context.

Evento foi realizado em parceria com o CERIO Centro de Pesquisas em Direito e Economia (CPDE) da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da FGV  e o Centro de Estudos em Regulação e Infraestrutura (FGV/CERI) promoveram, no dia 13 de maio, um seminário com a Superintendência de Seguros Privados (SUSEP). Na ocasião, o superintendente da instituição, Roberto Westenberger, fez uma apresentação acerca do funcionamento da mesma e sobre seu processo de reestruturação.

Joe Arvai at the Conversation: “So-called “nudge units” are popping up in governments all around the world.

El Rector Ennio Vivaldi defendió, en el marco del seminario "El futuro de nuestras universidades", la necesidad de contar con un Sistema de Universidades Estatales a nivel nacional, que con criterios de excelencia, aporte al desarrollo del país.

Tras la alta participación de los trabajadores de la Universidad de Chile en la primera fase de esta medición, durante tres semanas serán los funcionarios y académicos de las otras unidades de la institución los que estarán llamados a responder la consulta, que tiene por objetivo identificar los riesgos a la salud en el lugar de trabajo.A fines de abril y durante una semana, más de 1200 empleados de planta, contrata y honorarios de los Servicios Centrales, de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, de parte del Hospital Clínico de la Universidad de Chile y de la

Con el objetivo de mejorar la experiencia de las comunicaciones mediante correos electrónicos y permitir a la totalidad de los usuarios de las casillas institucionales la utilización de servicios en línea, la Dirección de Servicios de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicaciones (DSTI) de la U. de Chile realizará la migración desde el actual correo para aquellos usuarios de @uchile.cl, a Google.La Dirección de Servicios de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicaciones (DSTI) realizará próximamente mejoras en los servicios de correo corporativo de la Universidad de Chile.

Conocimientos teóricos, capacidad de investigación y reconocimiento profesional son algunas de las características destacadas por los egresados en esta encuesta aplicada el 2015, medición que arrojó que el 94 por ciento de los graduados de la Universidad se encuentra trabajando o realizando un programa de educación continua.

Date published: May 16, 2016"A future where ROSS, or similar robot lawyers, is used across the country might not be too far away, according to Ryan Calo, a law professor and writer who focuses on the intersection of technology and law. “The use of complex software in the practice of law is commonplace — for instance, in managing discovery,” said Calo. “Watson is a tool — in law or medicine or another context — to assist professionals in making judgments.

Date published: May 16, 2016""The study has important implications for surveillance law and policy," says Arvind Narayanan, a computer scientist and data privacy expert at Princeton University.

by Suniti Sampat and Anushka Sachdev With Cheeni Kum, it was ageism. With Paa, sensitization about degenerative diseases. With Ki and Ka, R Balki attempts to take on gender stereotypes. However, along the way, he seems to forget how multi-faceted the problem really is. While attempting to highlight stereotypes, there is always the risk that […]

Academic conferences offer many great moments to connect with other people who share passions and interests. In that spirit, Robin Brewer (PhD candidate, Northwestern) and I hosted a coffee break for Christians at CHI 2016 this year.

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Anubha Sinha will be attending the 2016 IViR Summer Course on International Copyright Law as a beneficiary of the OSF Civil Society Scholarship in Amsterdam from July 4 to 8, 2016. The event is being organized by the University of Amsterdam.
For more info click here.

Monday July 4

8:45-9:15

Welcome

9:15-9:30

Opening Session by Bernt Hugenholtz

9:30-12:30

Even as India's first PM is scrubbed out from textbooks, his reputation is being savaged on the internet.
The article by Amulya Gopalakrishnan was published by the Times of India on May 15, 2016. Pranesh Prakash gave inputs.

Vyacheslav Polonski on 15 May 2016 at 14:11PM #brexit or #bremain: What does the Internet say about the future of the UK and the European Union?Continue reading on Medium » [...]

Paper by Jacob Metcalf and Kate Crawford: “There are growing discontinuities between the research practices of data science and established tools of research ethics regulation. Some of the core commitments of existing research ethics regulations, such as the distinction between research and practice, cannot be cleanly exported from biomedical research to data science research. These discontinuities have led some data science practitioners and researchers to move toward rejecting ethics regulations outright.

Medha Basu at GovInsider: “Jakarta is predicting floods and traffic using complaints data, and plans to do so for dengue as well.

DataShift: “No-one can communicate the importance of citizen-generated data better than those who are actually working with it. At DataShift, we want to highlight the civil society organisations who have told us about the tangible results they have achieved through innovative approaches to harnessing data from citizens.

Recently, the Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology Mr Ravi Shankar Prasad tweeted about new rules mandating a panic button in every cell phone sold in the country from January 2017. To keep ladies safe, of course.
The story by Madhura Kadaba was published in the Ladies Finger on May 14, 2016. Rohini Lakshané was quoted.

This blog continues the analysis of how to respond to terrorist activity (including recruitment and planning of attacks) using network information technology, in particular social media. As noted earlier, I think promising avenues to investigate include three areas:
1) Countering misinformation
2) Active recruitment to alternative missions
3) Areas beyond communication - e.g., algorithmic adjustments by social media platforms