NTU and AIA establish EDGE LAB to develop innovative healthcare and insurance solutions
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Notícia principal: Tese do professor Eduardo Jordão recebe prêmio Levy Ullman na FrançaResumo notícia principal: O trabalho obteve o prestigiado prêmio Levy Ullmann, da Chancelaria das Universidades de Paris.
Anna Joppert foi escolhida por comissão de professores da EscolaA aluna Anna Joppert, do 10º período da graduação, será a primeira representante da FGV Direito Rio no Latin American Linkage Program, da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Yale, nos Estados Unidos. Ela passará três semanas em Yale, onde ficará integrada na comunidade discente e participará de aulas, reuniões e workshops com professores. O programa inclui ainda uma agenda de visitas a instituições do governo e ONGs locais, além de encontros com autoridades americanas.
Nick Summers at Engadget: In an effort to cut costs and make its officers more efficient, police in Peterborough, England are asking citizens to report their crimes over Sk
About: “Instead of building the future USAspending.gov and getting feedback from users after the launch, Treasury took the innovative approach of launching OpenBeta.USAspending.gov in November 2015 to gather your recommendations and suggestions on the features you want in the final iteration. Based on forum and email feedback, Treasury will add new features and functionalities on a rolling basis.
Book edited by Javiera Atenas and Leo Havemann: “…is the outcome of a collective effort that has its origins in the 5th Open Knowledge Open Education Working Group call, in which the idea of using Open Data in schools was mentioned. It occurred to us that Open Data and open educational resources seemed to us almost to exist in separate open worlds.
CIHR at Internet Governance Forum 2015
The 10th annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum has been taking place in João Pessoa, Brazil, on 10 to 13 November 2015. This year’s theme is “Evolution of Internet Governance: Empowering Sustainable Development”. Here is a short overview and the videos of the workshops and talks by CIHR staff and fellows:
The White House: “Today, the White House is releasing the Privacy and Trust Principles for the President’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI). These principles are a foundation for protecting participant privacy and building trust in activities within PMI.
List of winners at Govtech:
1st place // City of Philadelphia, Pa.
Los estudiantes que optan por esta oferta educativa de la Universidad se han duplicado en tres años, llegando a ser cerca de 16 mil 800 personas las que cursaron algún programa en la Casa de Bello el 2014.
El encuentro internacional coorganizado por el Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación de la U. de Chile (CIAE) contó con la participación del decano de la Facultad de Educación de la U. de Virginia, Robert Pianta.
La formación de profesionales de la salud especializados, urgentemente requeridos en el país, y el desarrollo de la telemedicina, servicio que permitirá conectar a profesionales del Hospital con aquellos ubicados en los rincones más remotos del territorio, son parte de los acuerdos específicos del convenio marco de colaboración que firmaron este viernes 30 de octubre el Rector de la Universidad de Chile, Prof. Dr. Ennio Vivaldi Véjar, y la Ministra de Salud, Dra.
Los académicos de la Facultad de Medicina Jorge Allende y Víctor Hugo Carrasco de la Red Transdisciplinaria de Vejez y Envejecimiento de la Universidad de Chile, fueron convocados a integrar el nuevo Comité Asesor del Servicio Nacional del Adulto Mayor (SENAMA), que se constituyó este jueves 29 de octubre.
Paper by Jonathan Stoneman at Reuters Institute for Journalism: “The Open Data movement really came into being when President Obama issued his first policy paper, on his first day in office in January 2009. The US government opened up thousands of datasets to scrutiny by the public, by journalists, by policy-makers. Coders and developers were also invited to make the data useful to people and businesses in all manner of ways.
A white paper by Taylor & Francis: “Within the academic community, peer review is widely recognized as being at the heart of scholarly research. However, faith in peer review’s integrity is of ongoing and increasing concern to many. It is imperative that publishers (and academic editors) of peer-reviewed scholarly research learn from each other, working together to improve practices in areas such as ethical issues, training, and data transparency….Key findings:
What are impacts of algorithms on workers, and how do they respond to being managed by algorithms?
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A team from The GovLab was among the 1,500 participants in the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Global Summit in Mexico City from October 27th-29th.
Book edited by Philip Alston and Sarah Knuckey: “Fact-finding is at the heart of human rights advocacy, and is often at the center of international controversies about alleged government abuses. In recent years, human rights fact-finding has greatly proliferated and become more sophisticated and complex, while also being subjected to stronger scrutiny from governments.