Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska zaprasza wszystkich nauczycieli akademickich do udziału w kursie online na temat Otwartych Zasobów Edukacyjnych w praktyce nauczyciela akademickiego (http://www.exploerercourse.org/pl/ ). Celem kursu jest przede wszystkim wprowadzenie w tematykę otwartych zasobów oraz przekazanie podstawowych umiejętności ich pozyskiwania, dostosowania do swoich potrzeb i dalszego udostępniania.

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Date: Tue, 03/08/2016Global campaign to highlight women who are using the Internet to make a difference

The noise surrounding the recent controversy regarding a tweet by Indian actor (and UN Ambassador for Gender Equality) Anupam Kher made it difficult to look into why it caught so much attention. That it did is beyond doubt, garnering over six thousand hits, significantly more than almost all of his other tweets. It was also […]

Author(s): Beth Van SchaackPublication Date: March 8, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingEditor’s note: This is the latest in a continuing series about alleged war crimes in Syria. You can find the previous installments here and here.

Date published: March 8, 2016"Andrea Matwyshyn, a scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society and a professor at Boston's Northeastern University School of Law, said on the phone that "picking a fight with the crown jewel of our economy" may push some companies to reconsider their domestic growth in favor of investing their overseas operations where the legal landscape may be more hospitable.ZDNet

Date published: March 8, 2016"While some proponents of both have laudable goals–protecting the intellectual property of innovators and building intelligence that can save lives–the dangers posed by each are significant.

Date published: March 8, 2016"Binge On has been a hit with customers, helping T-Mobile to continue to continue to grow its audience in an increasingly competitive space.Fierce Wireless

I don't think I need to reiterate how important the battle over the future of encryption is. It's not new, but rather the latest clash in a fight that has been raging for years, and the high-profile example of the San Bernardino attacker's iPhone has cast a spotlight on it.

Author(s): Scott ShackelfordPublication Date: March 8, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingMore nations in the Asia-Pacific are adopting a bottom-up approach to cybersecurity regulation. That’s a good thing, Scott Shackelford writes.

How do we find the hegemonic viewpoint surrounding mass surveillance in America? President Obama introduces the issue in a speech: "At the dawn of our Republic, a small, secret surveillance committee borne out of the “The Sons of Liberty” was established in Boston. And the group’s members included Paul Revere." The mentioning of Paul Revere is important.

White House Factsheet: “In the lead up to the President’s historic visit to SxSW, today the Administration is announcing the launch of “The Opportunity Project,” a new open data effort to improve economic mobility for all Americans. As the President said in his State of the Union address, we must harness 21st century technology and innovation to expand access to opportunity and tackle our greatest challenges.

The present presidential election is a spectacle, in the truest sense of the word, like few before. Just as FDR's weekly radio addresses and JFK's success in the first televised presidential debate watermark the adoption and cooption of a particular communication medium for political ends, so the 2016 campaign may go down in history as marking a seismic shift in the landscape of political uses of media. The candidate leading the charge, this time round, is unquestionably Donald Trump, currently the frontrunner for the Republican nomination.

On January 27th, Kit Lykketoft, the Deputy Director of MindLab and a visiting scholar at Parsons the New School for Design – DESIS Lab, visited The GovLab to share insights about the design and evolution of a public sector innovation lab.

Demos for Democracy is an ongoing series of live, interactive online demos that feature designers and builders of the latest innovative governance platforms, tools or methods to foster greater openness and collaboration to how we govern.
Join us on March 29, 2016 for our next demo with:

Policy and Internet Blog on 7 March 2016 at 18:53PM P-values are widely used in the social sciences, especially ‘big data’ studies, to calculate statistical significance. Yet they are widely criticized for being easily hacked, and for not telling us what we want to know. Many have argued that, as a result, research is wrong far more often than we realize. In their recent [...]

Seminario sobre neurociencias, educación y Derechos Humanos se realizó entre el 25 y 26 de enero, con la participación del destacado neurocientífico francés Jean Pierre Changeux, homenajeado con el grado Honoris Causa de la U. de Chile, y de la filósofa sueca Kathinka Evers.La ética tiene su base en el cerebro humano y éste tiene una estructura y organización complejas, con múltiples niveles, en el que hay una relación constante entre sus numerosas redes y conexiones y el entorno cultural y social de los sujetos.

En la cita, a la que asistieron invitados internacionales y autoridades de Corfo junto a miembros de la comunidad universitaria, se dialogó sobre las cinco áreas de trabajo del Proyecto: Armonización Curricular y Programas Tecnológicos de Postgrado, Investigación y Desarrollo Aplicado y Vínculo con la industria, Relaciones Internacionales, Gestión del Cambio y Capital Humano, y Comercialización de Tecnología y Emprendimiento.La Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de la Universidad de Chile recibió la visita de los evaluadores internacionales Norman Fortenberry, dir

"En Chile continental no existe el mosquito que transmite el virus de manera autóctona. Por tanto, el mensaje es tener calma y evitar que las embarazadas viajen a los países en donde sí se han reportado casos", afirma el Dr. José Manuel Manríquez, académico del programa de Epidemiología de la Escuela de Salud Pública de la U. de Chile.Parte del quehacer noticioso de los últimos días ha estado centrado en el virus Zika, que ha generado cierta incertidumbre por los casos que se han reportado en muchos países de América.

Este martes 26 de enero, la máxima autoridad universitaria e Hijo Ilustre de la comuna, fue panelista de un espacio de diálogo ciudadano referido a la creación de una nueva Constitución, encuentro en el que participó también el académico y Premio Nacional de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (2007), Manuel Antonio Garretón.

Alunas são premiadas em competição preparatóriaA Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da FGV (Direito Rio) participou, pela segunda vez, do Rio Pré-Moot, uma das competições preparatórias para o Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Competition em Viena.
Nesta primeira rodada da longa jornada até Viena, a Direito Rio já teve uma grande conquista. Duas das oradoras da equipe receberam prêmios de Best Individual Oralist: Amanda Muniz, do 10º período, recebeu o prêmio de melhor oradora e Luna Barroso, do 5º período, foi a segunda colocada.