hypothes.is: “A coalition of some of the world’s key scholarly publishers, platforms, libraries, and technology organizations are coming together to create an open, interoperable annotation layer over their content.

For decades web pioneers have imagined a native and universal collaborative capability over the Web. Many projects have experimented with it, yet in 2015 we’re still stuck with the same patchwork of proprietary commenting systems, only available in some places.

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SDP Blog on 4 December 2015 at 16:29PM By: Luis Felipe Alvarez León During the summer of 2015 I attended the OII Summer Doctoral Programme. I applied because I thought it would be a good way to start off my last year in the PhD and (finally!) bring together the different parts of my doctoral research. A friend and colleague, Cameran Ashraf, had attended […] [...]

Future of the Internet Decided Behind Closed Doors This week, representatives from 193 countries will convene at the United Nations in Dubai to “decide the future of the internet,” reports Freedom House. The meeting is a planned ten year review...

Big Data and Human Development on 4 December 2015 at 13:37PM We have started a mailing list for anyone wanting to stay in touch about the ‘big data and development’ initiative, and engage in conversation with the network. Just send a message to [bigdatadevelopment-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk] to sign up. [...]

Curso de Direitos Autorais, com certificado de Harvard, ministrado pela Internet.
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CopyrightX é um curso gratuito online com duração de 12 semanas: de 27 de Janeiro a 20 de Abril de 2016. É fruto da parceria de Harvard com o ITS Rio e a Uerj, e ministrado pelo professor William Fisher da Harvard Law School.
O objetivo do curso é explorar os temas e debates do direito autoral nos EUA, no Brasil e no mundo.

Crossposted from New Brunswick Social Policy Research Network:

Evento vai discutir regulação ambiental e previsão de catástrofesO Brasil presenciou uma das maiores tragédias ambientais de sua história em novembro, quando duas barragens de rejeitos de mineração da empresa Samarco se romperam no município de Mariana, em Minas Gerais. Uma onda de lama devastou cidades, contaminou o rio Doce e chegou ao mar, no Espírito Santo.

José Augusto Garcia de Sousa é o coordenador da publicaçãoUm dos grandes temas do novo Código de Processo Civil (CPC) é, sem dúvida, a Defensoria Pública. Para celebrar sua importância, será lançado na próxima segunda, 7 de dezembro, às 17h, na Fundação Escola da Defensoria Pública do Rio de Janeiro, o livro “Repercussões do Novo CPC – Defensoria Pública”.

El Programa de Libertad de Expresión y Ciudadanía (PLEC), del Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen y la Facultad de Derecho organizan este encuentro que tiene por objetivo visibilizar aquellos problemas que afectan el ejercicio de los derechos a la comunicación y sus diversas dimensiones.

El Programa de Magíster en Gestión y Políticas Públicas (MGPP) del Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial de la Universidad de Chile instauró este premio en el año 2012 para estimular la investigación en políticas públicas a nivel nacional, subnacional y regional, a partir de las experiencias en países de América Latina.

En el marco de la celebración de los 166 años de enseñanza de la arquitectura en Chile, la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (FAU) reconoció la labor de académicos y funcionarios que se han desempeñado por décadas en la Institución, y entregó la distinción "Medalla Arquitecto Claude Francois Brunet de Baines" a los arquitectos Hernán Behm y Osvaldo Cáceres por su aporte destacado a la Universidad y al país.El Rector(s) de la Universidad de Chile, profesor Sergio Jara Díaz, la Decana de la FAU, Marcela Pizzi y el vicedecano de la Facultad, Rubén Sepúlveda,

Feldheim – a Gallic village in Brandenburg (Germany) The small village Feldheim, which is located about 80 kilometers south of Berlin, is the first energy-independent municipality in Germany. Since 2010,... MORE

W tym tygodniu polecamy wybór artykułów na temat otwartej edukacji i jej ekonomicznych, społecznych i prawnych aspektów. Dodatkowo przedstawiamy ciekawe zagadnienie ze świata kultury – tym razem z problemem inspiracji w prawie autorskim musi się zmierzyć teatr Wierszalin.  Zachęcamy też do lektury odpowiedzi na pytanie, czy ICANN może być odpowiedzialna za zwalczanie naruszeń prawa autorskiego w internecie.

 

Tim Harford: “In 1737, a self-taught clockmaker from Yorkshire astonished the great scientists of London by solving the most pressing technological problem of the day: how to determine the longitude of a ship at sea. The conventional wisdom was that some kind of astronomical method would be needed. Other inventors suggested crackpot schemes that involved casting magic spells or ringing the world with a circle of outposts that would mark the time with cannon fire.

Paper by Marko M. Skoric et al: “This meta-analytic study reviews empirical research published from 2007 to 2013 with an aim of providing robust conclusions about the relationship between social media use and citizen engagement. It includes 22 studies that used self-reported measures of social media use and participation, with a total of 116 relationships/effects.

Geoff Mulgan: “Nesta has published a new book with Palgrave which contains an introduction by me and many important chapters from leading academics around the world. I hope that many people will read it, and think about it, because it challenges, in a highly constructive way, many of the rather tired assumptions of the London media/political elite of both left and right.

Art Markman at Harvard Business Review: “There are two reasons most of us aren’t very good at creative problem solving. First, few people get training in how to be creative in their education. Second, few people understand group dynamics well enough to harness their power to help groups maximize their creativity.

Martin Tisne at Devex: “There is a huge amount of talk about a “data revolution.” The phrase emerged in the years preceding this September’s announcement of the Sustainable Development Goals, and has recently been strongly reaffirmed by the launch of a Global Partnership on Sustainable Development Data.

Press Release: “Capgemini Consulting, the global strategy and transformation consulting arm of the Capgemini Group, today published two new reports on the state of play of Open Data in Europe, to mark the launch of the European Open Data Portal.