Evento também foi organizado pela FGV EBAPE e Columbia Global CentersO Global Conference on Transparency Research 2019 é um evento co-realizado pela FGV Direito Rio, FGV EBAPE e Columbia Global Centers. São patrocinadores a CAPES, Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento (BID), World Bank Group, e apoiadores a Controladoria Geral da União, LATAM Digital, Embaixada da Nova Zelândia e o IDRC. Os coordenadores acadêmicos são os professores Gregory Michener (EBAPE) e Michael Freitas Mohallem (FGV Direito Rio).

How do we make knowledge creation truly participatory for every community on our planet? The Wikimedia movement has been growing steadily, with more volunteers joining, and new affiliate groups created every year. Affiliates represent our movement at the local level and are charged with organizing activities and events to get people and organizations involved in the creation of the sum of all knowledge.

Artificial intelligence is the term on everyone’s lips – and it evokes both great hopes and dystopian horror scenarios. But how can you explain the enthusiasm for the technology? The technological debate about AI seems to be rooted in a deep cultural layer in which human desires and fears are hidden. In this article, Theresa…
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It’s been a little over a year since the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was implemented, but almost immediately, people noticed its impact. First, there was the flurry of emails seeking users’ consent to the collection and use of their data.

Die Deutsche Leberstiftung unterstützt mit ihren Vernetzungsstipendien den wissenschaftlichen Austausch zwischen Forscherinnen und Forschern sowie hepatologischen Forschungseinrichtungen. Die Stipendien können für die Durchführung zeitlich begrenzter klinischer oder grundlagenwissenschaftlicher Projekte in einer anderen als der eigenen Forschungseinrichtung genutzt werden. 

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The European Union must work harder to tackle the spread of disinformation on the internet, the Open Knowledge Foundation has warned. In a letter to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, chief executive Catherine Stihler has called for action to be ‘prioritised’ regarding online platforms that fail to do enough to tackle disinformation or do not fulfil promises made.

La también abogada de la New York University, School of Law, Estados Unidos, se integró como académica a la Escuela de Salud Pública (ESP) el año 2008 y encabezó esa unidad académica desde el mes de septiembre de 2017 hasta su reciente fallecimiento, marcando un hito al ser la primera mujer en asumir esa responsabilidad. La académica será velada en la Sala 211 de la ESP, a partir de la tarde de este 24 de junio.La comunidad universitaria comunica el fallecimiento de la Dra.

La campeona mundial de nado en aguas gélidas y egresada y magíster en Psicología de la U. de Chile, Bárbara Hernández, volvió a hacer noticia tras convertirse en la primera chilena en cruzar el Canal de Catalina, una travesía que le tomó una noche entera de nado sin descanso. Este 2019 decidió por primera vez en su carrera dedicarse sólo al nado. Sobre el desafío de cruzar los siete océanos y las dificultades de ser deportista en Chile, habla la llamada "Sirena de Hielo", en la siguiente entrevista con Prensa U. de Chile.

Este 26 de junio se inicia la tercera y última fase de implementación de la Ley sobre Composición Nutricional de los Alimentos y su Publicidad, en la que se incorporan las Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas y se reduce la cantidad de nutrientes críticos por cada 100 gramos o ml conducente a sellos.

A cultural disconnection between the man-made world and the biosphere lies behind the grave challenges we face today. We either don’t think about rivers, soils, and biodiversity at all – or we treat them as resources whose only purpose is to feed the economy. This ‘metabolic rift’ – between the living world, and the economic one – leaves us starved of meaning and purpose. We have to heal this damaging gap.

Algorithms analyse expressions, tone to check for traits such as confidence, anger in video interviews.
The article by Anjali Venugopalan was published in Economic Times on June 4, 2019, Sunil Abraham was quoted. Also mirrored on ET Tech.com.

After many false starts, the plan to wire India’s digital future may finally take off with Jio GigaFiber’s entry.
The article by Navadha Pandey was published by Livemint on June 4, 2019. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

Power desperately finds ways to propagate at the slightest hint of losing lustre, which the social network is beginning to experience at the moment.
The article by Rajmohan Sudhakar was published in the Deccan Herald on June 30, 2019. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

Bad route: A small routing error led to Internet outages in the Northeastern United States on June 24, Inc.com reports. Small network services provider DQE Communications shared inaccurate routing information with Verizon, which then passed it along to the wider network.

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Last year we established the Internet Society Foundation, with a plan to make clearer the Internet Society’s grant-making activities, and distinguish them from Internet Society programmes. We announced that we would develop the Foundation over the course of the following year.

In Deutschland sind fast 2 Mio. Kinder und Jugendliche übergewichtig oder sogar fettleibig. Weltweit sind im Vorschulalter schon mehr als 43 Mio. Kinder davon betroffen. Für die Entstehung von Übergewicht bei Kindern und Jugendlichen spielen schon sehr frühe Faktoren im Leben eine wichtige Rolle, z.B. in der Schwangerschaft und in den ersten Lebensjahren. Welche Ursachen bei Kindern zu Übergewichtigkeit führen, mit welchen Folgen und wie man seine Familie gemeinsam gesund ernähren kann, zeigt Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Regina Ensenauer in ihrem Vortrag.

Interessierte aus Düsseldorf und Umgebung allen Alters sind eingeladen, Chemie hautnah zu erleben und sich über die faszinierende Welt der Wissenschaft zu informieren. Das Programm reicht von Experimenten zum Anschauen über Vorträge bis hin zu Mitmachaktionen auch für kleine zukünftige Wissenschaftler.
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With the G20 Summit in Osaka easing trade tensions between the US and China, India has seen a week of developing policy positions on data localisation, tech startups and the fate of telecom providers  — presenting this week’s most important developments in law and tech. Aadhaar  [June 24] New Aadhaar regulations by Government to bring […]