Have you ever noticed that some robots look super cute while others look incredibly creepy? Imagine, for example, Wall-E of the same-titled movie: Eyes that look like binoculars, no face,... MORE
Elizabeth Dubois on 1 April 2016 at 15:12PM First posted on Medium. Top thinkers (and doers) in Canada’s #opengov (open government) space are meeting in Ottawa for the Open Dialogue Forum March 31st and April 1st, 2016. Not surprisingly, given the audience, the Twitter chat was on point. I’ve done a quick analysis of the mention network from the #CODF16 tag in order […] [...]
Apresentação do livro “CYBERBULLYING”, Sónia Seixas, Luís Fernandes e Tito de Morais.
Dia 21 de Abril de 2016, pelas 18h30, na FNAC Colombo, em Lisboa.
É já esta Terça-feira, dia 5 de Abril de 2016, pelas 18H00, na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, que o CIJIC tem a honra de apresentar uma palestra conduzida pelo Professor Doutor Paulo Pagliusi.
Entre outros, serão abordados os seguintes temas:
·Conceitos e Tendências em Cibersegurança – Mercado e Ciberincidentes.
·Convergência das Forças a Proteger na 3ª Plataforma da TI – Desafios e Impactos à Segurança.
F.J. Zuiderveen Borgesius, D. Trilling, J. Möller, B. Bodó, C.H. de Vreese & N. Helberger.
"Con más fuerza nos volvimos a levantar" fue el lema de la ceremonia con la que se reabrió este centro ceremonial ubicado desde hace ocho años en las dependencias de la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Pecuarias, y que en diciembre del 2015 fue destruido por un incendio intencional.
Esta mañana la Presidenta de la República, Michelle Bachelet, anunció la designación del académico de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM) y Premio Nacional de Ciencias Exactas 2015, Mario Hamuy, como presidente de la Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, Conicyt, y Asesor Científico de la Presidencia, con el desafío de coordinar el comité que creará el Ministerio de Ciencias y Tecnología.
Con una interfaz renovada, mesadeayuda.uchile.cl tiene nuevas secciones que permitirán una mejor atención para los usuarios de las plataformas tecnológicas que tiene a disposición la U.
GeoNet Project on 1 April 2016 at 00:52AM The ways in which we envision and talk about the internet matter. This is especially the case in the context of plans and projects to use the internet for human development, and at a time when charismatic Silicon Valley champions of new technologies are popularising narratives about its impact. This is a point that Charlotte… Read More » [...]
10 Lessons : “…The GovLab and its network of 25 world-class coaches and over 100 mentors helped 446 participants in more thana
Nueve antiguos alumnos de la Universidad, becados para realizar prácticas internacionales
El programa Becas Prácticas Internacionales 2016 pertenece al Plan Internacional de Navarra
FOTO: Manuel Castells
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Blanca Rodríguez
A two day workshop on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives was organized by MHRD Chair on Intellectual Property Rights, Centre for Intellectual Property Rights and Advocacy, and National Law School of India University in Bangalore on March 4 and 5, 2016. Nehaa Chaudhari spoke in 2 sessions: Exception & Limitations to Copyrighted Works and WIPO Initiatives.
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Rebecca Lipman at Economist Intelligence Unit Perspectives on “One city tweets to stay dry: From drones to old-fashioned phone calls, data come from many unlikely sources. In a disaster, such as a flood or earthquake, responders will take whatever information they can get to visualise the crisis and best direct their resources.
Subhashish Panigrahi gave a talk at the Bhasha- India Languages Digital Festival a conference organized by news media YourStory, at New Delhi on March 11, 2016. In the panel "The challenges of making regional language content available on the Web and on mobiles" Panigrahi spoke about some of the challenges in growing the Indian-language Wikipedia projects and the communities.
The notes for the talk are below:
Lara Baladi introduces us to her project "Archiving a Revolution", which documents the story of the Tahrir Squre protests. Developing over several years, Baladi has transformed her visual archive into a several projects, including an art installation.
Organização é parceira do Núcleo de Prática JurídicaDois alunos da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da FGV (Direito Rio) participaram de um evento realizado no sábado, dia 19 de março, na cidade de Maricá, no Rio de Janeiro. Anderson Pabst e Marcela Sardenberg participaram com o Instituto Mães SemNome da Ação Global Regional, promovida pela TV Globo em parceria com o SESI, que gerou uma média de público atendido de 28.300 pessoas.
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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Open Technology Institute surveyed U.S. Internet and telecommunications companies to highlight best practices and encourage standardization in transparency reporting.
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Essay by Abbey Stemler: “Ratings and reviews are the lifeblood of the sharing economy. They provide a reputation proxy and make us feel comfortable jumping into stranger’s cars, sleeping in their beds, and having a meal at their kitchen tables. However, as the fields of psychology, management, and behavioral economics are beginning to tell us, these trust building mechanisms might be flawed. Instead of relying on the wisdom of the crowd, we might be relying on the collective bias of the crowd.
Nathan Collins at Pacific Standard: “…there are contests like the DARPA Robotics Challenge, which gives prizes for solving particularly difficult problems, like how to prevent an autonomous vehicle from crashing.