Trabajo de levantamiento de datos se extenderá desde el primer día hábil de noviembre y hasta el 31 de enero de 2016, y estará a cargo del Centro de Microdatos de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios (FEN) de la U. de Chile, entidad que ha desarrollado el proceso en 11 de 12 ocasiones en que éste ha sido aplicado.
Entre el 28 y el 30 de octubre numerosos expertos internacionales y locales se reúnen con la finalidad de debatir respecto del complejo proceso de la resistencia a los antimicrobianos en el marco del proyecto "Coordinated Research Initiative for the Implementation of Antimicrobial Resistance Control Strategies", a cargo de la Dra. Javiera Cornejo y la Dra. Lisette Lapierre, de la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Pecuarias.
Emiko Jozuka at Motherboard: “Researchers in Britain want to make the first “self-repairing” city by 2035. How will they do this? By creating autonomous repair robots that patrol the streets and drainage systems, making sure your car doesn’t dip into a pothole, and that you don’t experience any gas leaks.
Beth Mole at ArsTechnica: “With big data comes big noise. Google learned this lesson the hard way with its now kaput Google Flu Trends. The online tracker, which used Internet search data to predict real-life flu outbreaks, emerged amid fanfare in 2008.
Bustling into Clover in Harvard Sq. in the early evening of November 3rd and scanning the faces there, you probably wouldn’t have noticed anything out of the ordinary. Maybe, if you’d been looking for it, you would have noticed a rather expansive gaggle of people on the central downstairs table. You might have even bothered to ponder why the gaggle was gathered so tightly despite the surrounding spare seats - but you probably wouldn’t have.
Jill Lepore in the NewYorker on “What the turn from polls to data science means for democracy”: “…The modern public-opinion poll has been around since the Great Depression, when the response rate—the number of people who take a survey as a percentage of those who were asked—was more than ninety. The participation rate—the number of people who take a survey as a percentage of the population—is far lower.
Shaun King at the New York Daily News: “The future is here.
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Policy and Internet Blog on 9 November 2015 at 11:20AM Ed: Given the “crisis in democratic accountability”, methods to increase citizen participation are in demand. To this end, your team developed some interactive crowdsourcing technologies to collect public opinion around an urban renovation project in Oulu, Finland. What form did the consultation take, and how did you assess its impact? [...]
Encontro debateu ativismo, acesso,transparência e engajamento políticoO Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade (CTS), da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV DIREITO RIO) promoveu no último dia 19 de outubro o encontro “Democracia Digital em Debate”. No evento foram discutidos aspectos como ativismo na rede, portais de transparência, acesso à internet, engajamento político e polarização de debates na web.
Is the best place to hide a dead body page 2 of Google search results? INC is happy to announce the third longform: The effect of the List, by Nikos Voyiatzis. You can find and read the latest longform here.
Qué libros marcaron su niñez y qué temáticas abordaban fueron algunos de los temas que evocaron los Premios Nacionales Sergio González, Beatrice Ávalos y José Zalaquett en la segunda jornada del conversatorio "Las lecturas de mi infancia", realizada en el marco de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Santiago (FILSA).El 27 de octubre en la sala Lily Garafulic de la Estación Mapocho se reunieron los Premios Nacionales Sergio González (Historia, 2014), Beatrice Ávalos (Educación, 2013) y José Zalaquett (Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, 2003), para participar en la segunda jorn
Cirujanos del HCUCH viajaron a la Región de Arica y Parinacota, para poder apoyar la realización de una cirugía con los estándares más altos en especialistas y tecnología para poder tratar con éxito un aneurisma en la aorta abdominal de un paciente de 76 años en el Hospital Juan Noé de Arica.El Dr. Alejandro Campos Gutiérrez, cirujano vascular y endovascular del Hospital Clínico de la U. de Chile (HCUCH), junto al médico en formación de subespecialidad, Dr.
En la sesión inaugural del Seminario Permanente sobre los procesos de transformación de los sistemas estatales de educación superior en el mundo, el Rector de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, José Narro dictará una conferencia sobre las universidades estatales en México y debatirá con autoridades y expertos en el contexto de la reforma educacional en Chile.El 2 de noviembre al mediodía la Universidad de Chile realizará la sesión inaugural del Seminario Permanente “Sistemas Nacionales de Universidades Estatales en el mundo: comparaciones, desafíos y proyecciones”,
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The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a multistakeholder forum for policy dialogue on issues of Internet governance. The Berkman Center and our colleagues from the Network of Centers are thrilled to be participating in many ways, including through live-webcast discussions on hate speech, blockchain technologies, and Internet observatories.
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Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2015 will be held at Jao Pessoa in Brazil from November 10 to 13, 2015. The theme of IGF 2015 is Evolution of Internet Governance: Empowering Sustainable Development. The workshop on Zero Rating and Network Neutrality will be held on November 12, 2015 at IGF 2015. Pranesh Prakash will be speaking at this event.
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nternet Governance Forum (IGF) 2015 will be held at Jao Pessoa in Brazil from November 10 to 13, 2015. The theme of IGF 2015 is Evolution of Internet Governance: Empowering Sustainable Development. Internet & Jurisdiction Project is organizing a workshop on Transnational Due Process on November 13, 2015. Sunil Abraham is a panelist.