Imagine a billion of the world’s poorest gaining overnight access to health information, education, and professional help — for free. Add to this one rich man who wants to make that dream a reality.
The article by Nimisha Jaiswal was published in the Global Post on January 13, 2016. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
Paper by Tiago Peixoto and Jonathan Fox (Worldbank): “This paper reviews evidence on the use of 23 information and communication technology (ICT) platforms to project citizen voice to improve public service delivery. This meta-analysis focuses on empirical studies of initiatives in the global South, highlighting both citizen uptake (‘yelp’) and the degree to which public service providers respond to expressions of citizen voice (‘teeth’).
The annual Mobile India conference, for which YourStory was the media partner, wrapped up recently in Bengaluru with a startup showcase and a wide range of insights on mobile innovation in India.
The blog post by Sneha Maselkar and Madanmohan Rao was first published in Your Story on January 14, 2016. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
New report by Eddie Copeland and Cameron Scott at Policy Exchange: “Elected mayors should be required to set up an Office of Data Analytics comprising of small, expert teams tasked with using public and privat
Ravi Mandalia at Dispatch Tribunal: “Global complex problems such as climate change and geopolitical conflicts need a new approach if we want to solve them and researchers have suggested that human-machine super intelligence could be the key.
Stephanie Kanowitz at GCN: “Researchers at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Texas at Dallas are proving that there’s accuracy, not just safety, in numbers. The Correlates of War project, a long-standing effort that studies the history of warfare, is now experimenting with crowdsourcing as a way to more quickly and inexpensively create a global conflict database that could help explain when and why countries go to war.
Megan Stubbs at the Congressional Research Service: “Recent media and industry reports have employed the term big data as a key to the future of increased food production and sustainable agriculture. A recent hearing on the private elements of big data in agriculture suggests that Congress too is interested in potential opportunities and challenges big data may hold. While there appears to be great interest, the subject of big data is complex and often misunderstood, especially within the context of agriculture.
Según el trabajo realizado por la investigadora Andrea Morales en el artículo "Mortalidad infantil como indicador de desigualdad del sistema de salud chileno", existe una profunda desigualdad respecto a la tasa de mortalidad infantil al interior del país.
El 3 de enero de 1887 se graduó de la carrera de Medicina de nuestro plantel, Eloísa Díaz Insunza, convirtiéndose así en la primera mujer médica-cirujana tanto en nuestro país como en Latinoamérica. Junto con abrir paso a otras mujeres en el ámbito profesional, Díaz dedicó su carrera a la promoción de importantes políticas públicas ligadas a la medicina social en nuestro país, entre ellas, la creación de jardines infantiles y consultorios, y la promoción de la vacunación para escolares.
El "Seminario Permanente: una mirada internacional de la Educación Superior Estatal", continuará durante el 2016 con el objetivo de potenciar la discusión en torno al rol de la educación pública, ciclo que se iniciará con la charla del coordinador del Programa de Educación Superior de la Curry School of Education de la Universidad de Virginia, Brian Pusser.
Author(s): Riana PfefferkornPublication Date: January 15, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingFBI Director James Comey recently told the Senate Judiciary Committee that encryption routinely poses a problem for law enforcement. He stated that encryption has “moved from being available [only] to the sophisticated bad guy to being the default.
The hardest part of being a PhD intern at the Social Media Collective last summer happened on weekday mornings. On those mornings, when I joined the optional Writing Power Hour, we would sit together at a long table overlooking the Charles River and write. For one or two hours, we committed to silence, collectively focusing on our work.
Date published: January 14, 2016"Rather than feeling downtrodden and helpless, many consumers are “thrilled or even delirious” about new technology, said Omer Tene, VP of research and education at the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Read more » about Do Consumers Care About Their Privacy In Practice?
Date published: January 14, 2016Read more » about The Feds Will Have Rules for Self-Driving Cars in the Next 6 MonthsWired"“This is an aggressive and ambitious embrace of automated driving,” says Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law and affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Society, who studies self-dri
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Date: Thu, 01/14/2016Project support will improve Internet infrastructure and technical skills in Africa[Washington, DC and Geneva, Switzerland] As part of a new agreement with the West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN), the Internet Society has announced today that it will contribute USD 120,000 to support activities targeting African Research and Education Networks (NREN), under the AfREN capacity building project.
Zachęcamy do zapoznania się z broszurą dotyczącą nowelizacji ustawy o prawie autorskim w zakresie dozwolonego użytku bibliotek przygotowaną przez Barbarę Szczepańską.
"La Traviata", "Nabucco", "La boheme", "Madama Butterfly", "Otello" y "Aida", son algunas de las obras que la Orquesta y Coro interpretarán el 8 y 9 de enero en el concierto con el que se dará inicio al año del 75° Aniversario de este tradicional cuerpo artístico de la Casa de Bello.Con afamados coros y arias de ópera, abordando obras de Verdi, Puccini, Mascagni y Leoncavallo, la Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile comenzará a celebrar sus 75 años de vida, a la vez que dará inicio al Festival de Verano 2016, el viernes 8 y sábado 9 de enero, acompañada del Coro Sinfónico Universida
La Feria del Postulante fue un evento masivo en el que autoridades, funcionarios, profesores y estudiantes de la Universidad buscan orientar a los postulantes y sus familias en la decisión sobre su futuro académico.
Escribiendo sus deseos para el 2016, los funcionarios recibieron el nuevo ciclo que se inicia, instancia en la que Juan Cortés, vicerrector de Asuntos Estudiantiles y Comunitarios, destacó que la Casa de Bello debe seguir siendo un aporte sustantivo al desarrollo del país.Este lunes 4 de enero, la recepción de los funcionarios de la Torre 15 fue diferente.