Este lunes 9 y martes 10 de noviembre se elegirá la mesa directiva de la Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile (FECh) para el período 2015-2016.

Wendy Carrara in DAE blog: “The Open Data movement is reaching all countries in Europe. Data Portals give you access to re-usable government information. But have you ever tried to find Open Data from another country whose language you do not speak? Or have you tried to see whether data from one country exist also in a similar way in another? The European Data Portal that we just launched can help you….

H. V. Jagadish in the Conversation: “Police departments, like everyone else, would like to be more effective while spending less.

Egyptian Human Rights Activist Detained, Released This week, Egyptian military prosecutors released Cairo-based journalist Hossam Bahgat, who was arrested on November 9 for publishing false news related to an article about an allegedly-foiled military coup.  Bahgat is one of Egypt’s...

La fuerza y la pasión de Javier Olivares
El guionista y productor dio una clase en el Máster en Guión Audiovisual

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Robert D. Atkinson at Governing: “Since the flourishing of the Internet in the mid-1990s, e-government advocates have promised that information technology not only would make it easier to access public services but also would significantly increase government productivity and lower costs.

Evento reuniu professores, especialistas e autoridades do CADEA EPGE – Escola Brasileira de Economia e Finanças e a Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro (Direito Rio), ambas da Fundação Getulio Vargas, promoveram um amplo debate sobre Direito da Concorrência, no último dia 9 de novembro. Especialistas, professores e membros do Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (CADE) participaram dos debates sobre defesa da concorrência, lei anticorrupção, compliance, o papel das agências reguladoras, economia de compartilhamento e investigações e negociações complexas.

Policy and Internet Blog on 16 November 2015 at 12:29PM There is much discussion about a perceived “legitimacy crisis” in democracy. In his article The Rise of the Mediating Citizen: Time, Space, and Citizenship in the Crowdsourcing of Finnish Legislation, Taneli Heikka (University of Jyväskylä) discusses the digitally crowdsourced law for same-sex marriage that was passed in Finland in [...]

The Digital Asia Hub co-hosted two panels at the Internet Governance Forum 2015, November 10-15, in Joao Pessoa, Brazil:

The Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality Group on 16 November 2015 at 10:24AM I’m looking for two great postdocs to join me for at least 3.5 years to study how ICTs are being used to transform the labour market, through online labour marketplaces, ride hailing apps, and similar digital platforms. The purpose of… Continue Reading → [...]

La máxima autoridad de ese plantel estatal viajó al país para participar en el primer Congreso Regional Arte en Latinoamérica (CORAL), organizado por la Dirección de Investigación de la Facultad de Artes y para conversar con las autoridades sobre proyectos conjuntos de formación en materias de diseño, creación, arte y tecnologías.Hasta el auditorio de la Facultad de Artes, sede Las Encinas, han llegado diversos investigadores de Chile y del continente para participar en la primera versión del

Presentado este lunes por la Presidenta, esta iniciativa tiene como principales desafíos modificar el modelo de financiamiento por subvención, realizar un trabajo sistémico a nivel central y local, aumentar el porcentaje de la cobertura -que hoy alcanza sólo a un 36 por ciento- y clarificar los objetivos país que tendrá la educación pública, según plantean los investigadores sobre este proyecto.

En el inicio de un ciclo de encuentros con las comunidades de las facultades e institutos de la Universidad de Chile, el Rector Ennio Vivaldi realizó un balance del primer año de gestión, escuchó las inquietudes de los integrantes de la Facultad y planteó los desafíos próximos a nivel interno y externo, entre ellos, el debate por la reforma a la educación superior.La Facultad de Ciencias Sociales fue la primera unidad académica que visitó el Rector Ennio Vivaldi en el marco de un ciclo de encuentros con las comunidades de la

The success of art residencies in the city has a lot to do with its openness and artists' initiatives.
The article was published in the Hindu on November 14, 2015.

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Joelle Cook at FSG: “Much has been written recently about the importance of using a system lens, or focusing on system change, to make real progress against some of society’s toughest challenges. But what does that really mean? The following definition of system change resonated with us, fromNPC’s 2015 guide:

Alice Tang at the Chicago Policy Review: “In the era of data explosion, urban planners are increasingly relying on real-time, streaming data generated by “smart” devices to assist with city management.

Having spent a day here in New York City discussing the idea of platform cooperatives, the conversation shifted this evening with a showcase of nine actual cooperative organizations and technologies.
(image by Jojo Karlin)