We are excited about the momentum behind Ethiopia.
It is a rare moment in any country’s history to undergo such a positive transformation. It’s a time of immense optimism and investment potential. It’s not a surprise as the country also has one of the fastest-growing economies in the region, is strategically placed, and has a young population of over 105 million – half of whom are under the age of 18.
Encryption wave: Let’s Encrypt, the website encryption project supported by the Internet Society, has issued 1 billion web security certificates, ZDNet reports. About 81 percent of the world’s websites now are secured with Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption, and Let’s Encrypt, which offers free TLS certificates, now serves nearly 200 million websites.
Seit der Entdeckung von hydrothermalen Schloten in der Tiefsee vor rund 40 Jahren stehen diese natürlichen chemischen Reaktoren im Fokus der Evolutionsforscher, die nach den Ursprüngen des Lebens suchen. Die Schlote stoßen heißes, mineralhaltiges Wasser aus. In ihm sind einfache, aber reaktionsfreudige chemische Stoffe wie Wasserstoffgas (H2) und Kohlendioxid (CO2) gelöst. Solche Bedingungen können die ersten biochemischen Reaktionen überhaupt begünstigt und somit auch die Entstehung die ersten freilebenden Zellen vorangetrieben haben.
By Stefaan G. Verhulst, Andrew Zahuranec, Andrew Young, and Michelle Winowatan
This article was originally published in Data & Policy, the peer-reviewed, open access venue dedicated to the potential of data science to address important policy challenges.
Le mardi 10 mars prochain se tiendra une conférence intitulée : The Reform of Civil Justice in Latin America: Lessons Learned and Challenges.
Le conférencier invité est:
Santiago Pereira Campos, Professeur titulaire à la Faculté de droit de l’Université de Montevideo en Uruguay.
*La conférence se tiendra en anglais.*
Nous vous y attendons en grand nombre!
Is there a way to go beyond open source, and have ethical, fair software in a cloud-first world? This is what some people in the open source community think.
Apply for a mini-grant to build an open source tool for reproducible research using Frictionless Data tooling, specs, and code base.
Today, Open Knowledge Foundation is launching the second round of the Frictionless Data Tool Fund, a mini-grant scheme offering grants of $5,000 to support individuals or organisations in developing an open tool for reproducible science or research built using the Frictionless Data specifications and software. We welcome submissions of interest until 17th May 2020.
El hallazgo fue publicado hoy en la edición impresa de la revista científica Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. La investigación fue liderada por Sebastián López, académico del Departamento de Astronomía de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de la Universidad de Chile.“Hace muy poco inventamos una técnica para tomarle una especie de tomografía de rayos-x a las galaxias en formación.
Este miércoles 22 de enero falleció, producto de una insuficiencia respiratoria, el poeta y abogado de la U. de Chile, Armando Uribe. El Premio Nacional de Literatura 2004 deja a su haber una prolífica producción que incluye publicaciones sobre derecho, poesía, religión, política y literatura.Tras casi veinte años recluido, esperando la muerte y el encuentro con su mujer, Cecilia Echeverría, la noche de este miércoles 22 de enero, falleció a los 86 años el poeta, abogado y Premio Nacional de Literatura 2004, Armando Uribe.
Zeynep Tufekci on why China’s use of surveillance and censorship makes it harder for Xi Jinping to know what’s going on in his own country.
“It’s not clear why Xi let things spin so far out of control,” writes Tufekci. “It might be that he brushed aside concerns from his aides until it was too late, but a stronger possibility is that he did not know the crucial details.”
Der Klimawandel beeinflusst die Häufigkeit und Intensität extremer Wetterereignisse wie Dürren oder Starkregen. Neue statistische Methoden sollen dabei helfen, das Risiko solcher Ereignisse besser einschätzen zu können. Auch wenn die Anzahl solcher Ereignisse zunimmt, so sind sie doch weiterhin so selten, dass viele herkömmliche statistische Verfahren nicht greifen beziehungsweise zu unsicher sind.
It’s being called the world’s biggest work-from-home experiment. With concerns growing over the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus, schools and businesses around the world are implementing contingency plans that encourage distance learning and work from home.
Desmond Patton discusses the importance of meaningful interaction with the people behind data with the authors of Data Feminism.
“It became really clear to me that we needed to create a new approach to social media data that could really grasp culture, context and nuance. For the primary reason of not misinterpreting what’s being said.”
Desmond Patton joined the MIT CMSW podcast to discuss the promise and challenge of eliciting context in social media posts with natural language processing.
The 2019–2020 academic year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Cyberlaw Clinic, which is based at the Berkman Klein Center. To commemorate the occasion, we spoke with Kendra Albert (Harvard Law J.D. ‘16), clinical instructor in the Cyberlaw Clinic and former student in the Clinic about their takeaways from that experience, their current work, and what they’re the proudest of in their time at the Clinic.
As some countries restrict and replace content, are we headed toward a world of multiple internets? David Weinberger argues that we are already there.
“So on one hand, yes, the dream [of an open internet] is dead. On the other hand, that statement causes us, I think, to overlook the quite often very positive transformation that the internet has brought about: in our sense of what it means to speak in public, what it means to connect in public.”
Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center canvassed technology experts in the summer of 2019 to gain their insights about the potential future effects of people’s use of technology on democracy.
