O Prof. Carlos Ragazzo, em parceria com o Instituto Propague, do qual faz parte o ex-aluno da FGV Direito Rio, Gabriel Dolabella, está promovendo uma série de lives para discutir as medidas econômicas que estão sendo anunciadas pelos governos brasileiro, americano e europeus para lidar com os efeitos do COVID-19. 

Amid the global spread of COVID-19, the exceptional strict confinement to our homes offers important lessons about the urgency of bridging the digital divide.

Where I live, in Osona (rural ​​Catalonia, northern Spain), 15 years ago there was no Internet access. Commercial operators said it wasn’t profitable. So, we set up a community network, Guifi.net, initially with radio connections, and in 2009 we deployed fiber optics. Today, we have connected many small towns and have more than 200,000 estimated users.

On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

During Bread&Net 2019, the MENA Digital Threats and Controls session discussed the most prevalent types of digital threats  and patterns in the region. Additionally, experts also explored the basic digital security controls that users can adopt to protect their digital existence.  Ali Sibai, technologist and Rapid Response Network coordinator revealed[...]

The social relevance of digital spaces for collective action is greater than ever. This article addresses acts of solidarity during corona pandemic and examines in what way they affect norms and analogue situations. An article by Tanja Fisse and Claudia Haas. For a long time, collective action referred to  a group of people meeting in…
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With the increasing use of algorithmic systems in all areas of life, the debate on the social impact of technology and the development of a "European pathway to artificial intelligence" has also gained momentum. Humane and trustworthy AI are the keywords with which political actors in Germany and at European level describe this path. A number of ethical guidelines for the design of AI have been published to make this possible.

Politicians, journalists, and even scientists these days like to use the metaphor of war to describe the efforts that will now be necessary against the novel corona virus: "Sars-CoV-2 is our common enemy. We must declare war on this virus. That means countries have a responsibility to do more, to arm themselves and to strengthen themselves." (António Guterres in a guest article for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, 15.03.2020) At first glance, this drastic choice of words seems to make sense if one considers the restrictions and changes that this pandemic is imposing on us.

The pandemic now sweeping the planet is one of those historic events that will change many basic premises of modern life. Let us act swiftly to deal with the emergencies, but let us also seize the opportunity to think about long-term system change. If there is one thing that the pandemic confirms (in tandem with climate change), it is that our modern economic and political systems must change in some profound ways. And we are the ones who must push that change forward. We’ve already seen what state officialdom has in mind — more bailouts for a dysfunctional system.

“May you live in interesting times“. A curse once assigned Chinese origin, now thought to be apocryphal, it’s deceptively mild until you realize you have no resistance to a novel, viral load of interestingness. We feel like we can’t blink, yet our eyelids are getting very heavy. We’re anxious, grateful, bewildered, hopeful, overwhelmed, empathetic, angry, sleepy and wired. Housebound in a springtime lockdown to hope for the best, prepare for the worst, and flatten the curve. 

Berlin, 01. April 2020 – The new European Science Press Service (ESPS) is an information platform for scientific findings in the field of internet and society research. The ESPS was initiated by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) to promote Europe-wide networking and knowledge exchange between research organisations and the media.…

Ahora que la emergencia sanitaria por el COVID-19 hace que el acceso a los alimentos sea más limitado, y que personas estén optando por almacenar algunos de ellos, las académicas Angélica Reyes y Magaly Toro, han preparado una guía práctica para favorecer su conservación en buenas condiciones.

El economista y académico de la U. de Chile, comentó en revista Palabra Pública los efectos que ya está teniendo la pandemia a nivel económico y los anuncios que hizo el Presidente Sebastián Piñera para combatir los embates de esta crisis.

En el actual contexto global provocado por la propagación del COVID-19, la situación de algunos grupos de riesgo ha causado especial preocupación en la población. Es el caso de este tipo de pacientes, sobre quienes habla la jefa del Servicio de Oncología del Hospital Clínico de la U. de Chile (HCUCH) Mónica Ahumada, dando cuenta de su situación y cuidados para prevenir el virus. La pandemia por coronavirus (Covid-19) se disemina muy rápidamente en el mundo entero.

"Acceder a una alimentación nutritiva, saludable y sostenible es fundamental para ayudarnos a enfrentar esta pandemia", señalan las académicas Rebecca Kanter, de la Facultad de Medicina, y Sofía Boza, de la Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, quienes describen el escenario crítico en términos de crisis social y sequía, así como medidas para enfrentarlo.En Chile, el COVID-19 se superpone al convulso escenario tras el estallido social, lo cual a su vez es simultáneo a una de las mayores sequías de las que se tenga registro en el país. En ello, desde el pasado o

On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

Supermarkets have finally restocked their toilet paper in Hong Kong after weeks of panic buying when a rumor about toilet paper shortage due to closure of factories in China went viral. The toilet paper shortage did happen, but it was because of panic buying, not because of factory closure in China. How did the rumor spread? Was disinformation one of the culprits?