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Télétravail – Covid-19

Pour des raisons évidentes, veuillez noter que les bureau du CRDP sont fermés jusqu’à nouvel ordre. Cependant, l’ensemble du personnel et des professeurs exercent le télétravail et sont joignables par les moyens technologiques appropriés.

Prenez soin de vous!

Confronting Viral Disinformation

Pandemia COVID-19 | Gustavo Kloh comenta a situação dos Shoppings e Condomínios

A Pandemia do Coronavírus tem levantado diversas questões que abrangem os Shoppings e Condomínios.
Nos últimos dias, a determinação do fechamento dos shoppings, devido à Situação de Emergência da Cidade, trouxe à tona o debate sobre o poder da polícia municipal no funcionamento dos shoppings e demais comércios.

Pandemia COVID-19 | Bianca Medeiros comenta a regulação da água

Nos últimos dias, a Pandemia do Coronavirus (COVID-19) evidenciou a descoordenação entre temas importantes da agenda hídrica, recurso essencial na prevenção à contaminação do vírus.
 
Na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, moradores de diversas comunidades e favelas alegaram não ter água para higienizar suas mãos, uma das principais recomendações da Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS).
 
Para Bianca Medeiros, pesquisadora do projeto Regulação da Água, da FGV Direito Rio, a crise evidencia as dificuldades de se materializar uma regulação efetiva no território brasileiro.

Working with APRICOT to Improve Routing Security

We’re pleased to announce that the Internet Society
and the Asia Pacific Network Operators Group Ltd
(APNOG)
signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate in
supporting the MANRS initiative in the Asia-Pacific region.

APNOG is the non-profit entity that runs the annual
APRICOT conference, also called the Asia-Pacific Regional Internet Conference
on Operational Technologies. APRICOT is the largest meeting of the technical
community in the region.

Tracking deforestation in West Africa with satellites and drones: Open Data Day 2020 report

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.

Letizia Chiappini: Why I feel unsafe and stay in the Netherlands

It’s early morning and the Italian news is dramatic. The Corona virus hits Northern Italy with a magnitude comparable to China. My mother and my grandmother are there, alone. Confined at home, scared and victims of a wretched television that shows sensationalist news about Corona-virus. Numbers are growing at a rapid pace. Young individuals are safe, they said, elderly and vulnerable are in danger. I am puzzled, between heartbroken for my beloved ones in Italy and incredulous because in the Netherlands one month ago everything was still ‘gezellig’ (cozy, mellow and normal).

Launch of LAVA, Letters from the Volcano-Issue #1: Be Water

Letters from the Volcano is an experimental zine conceived by Franco “Bifo” Berardi and developed by Mitra Azar, Hugo Sir, and a small group of agitators from the four corners of the world. LAVA emerged from a desire to understand the recent wave of social movements starting in autumn of 2019.

Corona culture

How COVID-19 is activating the digital society  COVID-19 is teaching us how rapidly things can change. All of a sudden, we are living in a new stay-at-home culture. This entails new norms and cultural practices that show what else the internet could be. An article about the digital society in the time of corona. Even…
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Vacancies: senior/junior researchers

Legal ICT Law Researcher (M/F) with interest in Biometric Technologies

Vacancies: 2 Early Stage Researcher positions in law for H2020 MSCA ITN - TreSPasS

CEAC suspende eventos de sus cuerpos artísticos durante marzo y abril

Debido a la rápida propagación del virus COVID-19 en nuestro país, y en línea con las medidas anunciadas por las autoridades -entre ellas la prohibición de realizar eventos de alta convocatoria- el Centro de Extensión Artística y Cultural de la Universidad de Chile (CEAC) confirma la suspensión de todos los conciertos y espectáculos de sus conjuntos, agendados para los meses de marzo y abril de 2020.

Rector fue reconocido por sus aportes a la educación pública

El premio, que desde 1996 es entregado por la Corporación de Artistas Proecología de Isla Negra, reconoce a personas destacadas en temas sociales, ecología, cultura, economía y territoriales.

'Coughing while Asian': living in fear as racism feeds off coronavirus panic

To Pre-Empt Future Pandemics, Governments Should Invest in the Welfare State, Not Private Surveillance

Do You Have COVID-19 Questions? We Have Answers: Ask a Scientist Launches

This blog post was written by  and originally appeared in the Federation of American Scientists blog on March 18, 2020.

Coronavirus misinformation makes neutrality a distant memory for tech companies

Global Perspectives on COVID-19

​NTU scientists develop handheld, high-resolution medical imaging device with potential for bedside scanning

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