The city of Mannheim has taken legal action against the Wikimedia Foundation because of 17 photos of paintings from the Reiss-Engelhorn museum’s collection. All photos are of works that are... MORE
Dan Adams at the Boston Globe: “Earlier this year, Hopkinton resident Chris Bullock was deciding how to vote on a tax increase that would fund a new school. He wanted to know how much the town spent on education, and how that compared to other nearby towns — reasonable questions that any engaged voter might ask.
Alexander Howard at Huffington Post: “Winners of the latest version of New York City’s BigApps Challenge, announced Thursday, show how tough lessons from the first generation of city apps contests are now helping to creating civic value and community.
Joaquim Falcão e Sérgio Guerra participaram da solenidadeOs professores Joaquim Falcão e Sérgio Guerra participaram, no dia 9 de novembro, do Encontro Jurídico em Homenagem ao Ministro do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) Carlos Velloso. O evento, organizado pelo Tribunal de Justiça do Rio de Janeiro, em parceria com a Harvard Law School Association of Brazil e com a FGV Direito Rio, reuniu renomados juristas para debater o “Protagonismo Judicial, Segurança Jurídica e Paternalismo Exacerbado: Desafios em Tempos de Incertezas”.
Leonardo Costa falou sobre o futuro do setorO professor da FGV Direito Rio, Leonardo Costa, participou, no dia 27 de novembro, do seminário “A Tributação das Telecomunicações na Era da Economia Digital. Promovido pela Secretaria de Estado de Fazenda do Rio de Janeiro, com apoio do Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento (BID), o evento reuniu especialistas em tributação e representantes das principais empresas de telefonia do país.
Alex Davies at Wired: “IN THE NEXT 30 years, the American population will rise by 70 million people. This being the future, those people will love ordering stuff online even more than people do now, which will prompt a 45 percent rise in freight volume.
Según mediciones internacionales como el ranking de Shanghai y el QS, la Casa de Bello se instala como la mejor del país para estudiar matemáticas, posicionando a Chile en niveles de producción científica en el rango de países desarrollados; todo esto, gracias a la tradición del Departamento de Ingeniería en Matemáticas y el Centro de Modelamiento Matemático -que producen el 65 por ciento de las publicaciones chilenas en matemáticas- y del Departamento de Matemáticas de la Facultad de Ciencias.Según un reporte de la Unión Mundial Matemática, la productividad en inv
Deputy Managing Director of the WTI Prof Manfred Elsig recently returned from Vietnam where he paid a visit to the Foreign Trade University (FTU) in Hanoi, one of the WTI’s partners in the SECO academic cooperation project and taught a four-day course on Global Political Economy.
Jonathan Bright on 7 December 2015 at 16:49PM One common criticism of the otherwise excellent ggplot2 is that it doesn’t come with network visualisation capability. Network vis is so popular at the moment that it seems like a bit of a big omission; but network data is also quite unique in terms of structure (and the layout algorithms would need implementing) so I can […] [...]
La Universidad lanza un Máster en Investigación en Ciencias Sociales
El máster está coordinado por el Instituto Cultura y Sociedad y cuenta con la colaboración directa de las facultades de Comunicación, Derecho, Educación y Psicología, Enfermería, y Filosofía y Letras
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Policy and Internet Blog on 7 December 2015 at 11:21AM There is a great deal of interest in the use of crowdsourcing tools and practices in emergency situations. Gregory Asmolov‘s article Vertical Crowdsourcing in Russia: Balancing Governance of Crowds and State–Citizen Partnership in Emergency Situations (Policy and Internet 7,3) examines crowdsourcing of emergency response in Russia in the wake [...]
In October, the Polish Ministry of Infrastructure and Development (MIR) has announced a grant competition for digital literacy education projects, with a total value of PLN 180 million (EUR 45 million). It is one of several recently launched grant programs that include a requirement to openly license and make freely available resources created with public funding. Total value of the announced competitions exceeds PLN 400 million (approx. EUR 100 million).
The post originally appeared in Scroll.in on 29th November 2015. While hacktivists help limit the presence and effect of militant groups online, their operations are marred by legal, ethical and privacy concerns. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, better known as ISIS, has been receiving increasing attention, particularly after the recent Paris attacks, and the […]
Anne-Marie Oostveen on 5 December 2015 at 21:14PM There are 80 million citizens with disabilities in Europe (EDF, 2014). The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that the number of persons with a disability is increasing through population growth, medical advance, and the ageing process. Aviation, like all other transport modes, needs to recognise and accommodate this growing passenger segment. [...]
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a petition to block websites of dominant social media platforms, on the ground that they were used to spread videos of gang rapes and to facilitate a market for child prostitution. The two Judge bench of Justices UU Lalit and Madan B Lokur reasoned that blocking these sites was not a feasible solution, […]
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This post is third in series of four “reports from the field” on #crowdlaw
Book by Irene S. Wu: “Bloggers in India used social media and wikis to broadcast news and bring humanitarian aid to tsunami victims in South Asia. Terrorist groups like ISIS pour out messages and recruit new members on websites. The Internet is the new public square, bringing to politics a platform on which to create community at both the grassroots and bureaucratic level. Drawing on historical and contemporary case studies from more than ten countries, Irene S.