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Profesora Alejandra Mizala recibió Premio Amanda Labarca 2015

En una ceremonia realizada este miércoles 9 de marzo en el Salón de Honor de la Casa Central, la directora del Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación (CIAE) y profesora Titular de la Universidad de Chile, Alejandra Mizala, recibió el reconocimiento que entrega la U.

Universidades de Chile y Aysén junto al CNCA firman convenio

Promover actividades y proyectos en los ámbitos de la cultura, las artes, la ciencia y la tecnología, a través de la docencia, la extensión y la investigación, son parte de los propósitos del acuerdo tripartito que se firmó, durante la inauguración del primer año académico de la Universidad de Aysén, el pasado 7 de marzo.

"Cuando dejamos a las mujeres afuera nos perdemos una experiencia"

Antonella Estévez, quien también es académica del Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen (ICEI) de la Casa de Bello, cuenta cómo este certamen, patrocinado por la Universidad de Chile y que se realizará entre el 29 de marzo y el 3 de abril, viene a posicionar el tema de la igualdad de género. "Sólo un 15 por ciento de las cosas que vemos en cine y televisión están dirigidas por mujeres", lo que evidencia que "nuestra mirada está subrepresentada.

RELEASE: Open Data Impact: When Demand and Supply Meet

Key Findings of the Open Data Impact Case Studies
By Stefaan Verhulst and Andrew Young

Zero rating: a boon to consumers, or a net neutrality nightmare?

Date published: March 23, 2016"Barbara van Schewick, a professor and researcher from Stanford, published a study directly challenging T-Mobile's zero-rated program, causing it of "harming competition, innovation, user choice, and free speech on the Internet.""
The Brookings Institution

On-demand service could be Uber for blood collection

Springwise: Collecting blood for clinical and medical testing can be an arduous process, involving lots of travel, with the added annoyance of patients not turning up to appointments, and time wasted with doctors and phlebotomists.

Seminário | Arbitragem na Administração Pública: Novos Desafios

Seminário | Arbitragem na Administração Pública: Novos Desafios09h00O Evento: Confirmações através do e-mail: cdma@cdma.com.br ou 21 2514-1214 | 21 2514-1209

Local: Auditório da Procuradoria Geral do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - Rua do Carmo, 27 - Centro
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“Streetfight” by Janette Sadik-Khan

Review by Amrita Gupta in Policy Innovations of the book Streetfight: “Janette Sadik-Khan was New York City’s transportation commissioner from 2007-2013.

Access to Government Information in the United States: A Primer

Wendy Ginsberg and Michael Greene at Congressional Research Service: “No provision in the U.S. Constitution expressly establishes a procedure for public access to executive branch records or meetings. Congress, however, has legislated various public access laws. Among these laws are two records access statutes,

  • the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA; 5 U.S.C. §552), and
  • the Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. §552a),

and two meetings access statutes,

The Wisdom of Networks – and the Lessons of Wikipedia

Philip Reitinger at the Analogies Project: “Douglas Merrill said “All of us are smarter than any of us.”  This motto of crowdsourcing – looking to the information that can arise from the combined observation by and intelligence of many – is also the prescription for a more secure cyber future. Crowdsourcing security among machines – rather than people – is our best path forward.

Open Data Day Cairo 2016

This blog post was written by Adham Kalila from Transport for Cairo

CiTiP Blog is online!

39° Nexa Lunch Seminar - ICT4D, tecnologie appropriate a servizio dello sviluppo: un approccio critico

Page Type: Eventlunch23 marzo 2016Serena Carta (giornalista)
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Wed, 23/03/2016 - 13:00 to 14:00luogo: Via Boggio 65/a | Torino (primo piano)

Exploring the Ethics of Monitoring Online Extremism

Policy and Internet Blog on 23 March 2016 at 09:59AM (Part 2 of 2) The Internet serves not only as a breeding ground for extremism, but also offers myriad data streams which potentially hold great value to law enforcement. The report by the OII’s Ian Brown and Josh Cowls for the VOX-Pol project: Check the Web: Assessing the Ethics and Politics of Policing the Internet […] [...]

In India, Biometric Data Storage Sparks Demands for Privacy Laws

In India, calls for strict privacy laws are growing after this week's passage of a measure that allows federal agencies access to biometric data of the nation's citizens, the world's largest such repository.
The article by Anjana Pasricha was published in Voice of America on March 18, 2016. Pranesh Prakash gave inputs.

Dead and Clicking

A look at the phenomenon of digital memorials; repositories and time capsules of a life even after it's ended in the real world.

The article by Jayanthi Madhukar and Sowmya Rajaram was published by Bangalore Mirror on March 20, 2016. Rohini Lakshane was quoted.

Missing Women, Blank Maps, and Data Voids: What Gets Counted Counts

 

Universidad convoca a "mechones" a rendir prueba CODICE

Como parte de los esfuerzos de la Universidad para acompañar y apoyar a sus estudiantes en las distintas carreras, el Programa de Lectura y Escritura Académica de la U. de Chile, impulsado por el Dpto. de Pregrado de la Vicerrectoría de Asuntos Académicos llama a los estudiantes de primer año a rendir la prueba CODICE, que se realizará el 09 y 10 de marzo, con el fin de identificar estrategias y necesidades para mejorar las habilidades de escritura.“Este es un asunto estratégico para la Universidad”. La directora de Pregrado de la U.

Reconceptualizing the Right to Be Forgotten to Enable Transatlantic Data Flow

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with Sanna Kulevska and Michael L. Rustad

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Hard to broad ban!

The provisions under the Telegraph Act are wispy and can’t be convincingly invoked to exercise a jurisdiction on the internet world.
The article by Taru Bhatia was published by Governance Now on March 9, 2016. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.