"Un camino a Ítaca" es el nombre de la publicación editada por su esposa, Elfriede Herbstaedt, y otros académicos y académicas de la Casa de Bello, como una forma de recordar a un profesional en cuya vida convergieran las ciencias y las humanidades.“Leer el libro de Tito, para quiénes lo conocimos, ha sido como escucharlo hablar casi al oído, con su imborrable timbre de voz”, comentó el decano de la Facultad de Ciencias, Raúl Morales, uno de los asistentes al lanzamiento de la publicación póstuma del destacado académico de dicha unidad académico, fallecido el 2012.

Unas 38 comunas no recibirían fibra óptica y más de 80 no contarían con una red continua hacia localidades contiguas, concluye una investigación sobre resiliencia de la infraestructura del internet chileno.

Esta mañana en una ceremonia liderada por el Presidente Sebastián Piñera en La Moneda, se realizó la puesta en marcha del Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología, Conocimiento e Innovación, oportunidad en que se presentó al nuevo ministro y subsecretaria de la cartera. "Nuestra primera tarea es inspirar con las oportunidades que nos brinda esta revolución que estamos viviendo, donde el conocimiento tiene que estar al centro de nuestro modelo de desarrollo", dijo el Profesor Titular de la Facultad de Medicina tras asumir su nuevo cargo.

Por primera vez en su historia la compañía nacional visitará dicho país, en una gira que contará con más de cuatro presentaciones. Destaca además el trabajo colaborativo con el compositor nacional Miguel Farías y la creación del destacado coreógrafo brasileño, Alex Soares.El Ballet Nacional Chileno dio a conocer  su temporada 2019 en un encuentro realizado en el Teatro Universidad de Chile.

KASBUY is a web platform to help Moroccan cooperatives, especially ones from women, to promote their handicrafts on international online markets. It will allow any registered cooperative, after following a well-defined and transparent process, to have its own online space to sell its products and manage its business and inventory management activities.

Although there are a large number of rural libraries in Armenia, the majority of them do not have computers or Internet access. Librarians are forced to deal with manual book circulation and lack of management programs. Residents are mostly unaware of the resources housed in the libraries. It became evident that libraries needed a technological shift to break from their current working routines and embrace change.

Public Health ist die international übliche Bezeichnung einer Forschungsrichtung, die sich theoretisch mit der Bevölkerungsgesundheit befasst. Im Fokus stehen medizinisches Versorgungssystem, Gesundheitsverhalten und die Einflüsse der Umwelt, seien sie gesellschaftlicher oder ökologischer Natur. Drängende Themen der Bevölkerungsgesundheit sind beispielsweise die Zunahme von Übergewicht und Diabetes, zunehmende psychische Erkrankungen, die medizinische Versorgung einer alternden Gesellschaft und der Fachkräftemangel.

We are pleased to announce the launch of our latest report Advancing Sustainability Together? Citizen-Generated Data and the Sustainable Development Goals. The research is the result of a collaboration with King’s College London, Public Data Lab, as well as the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, and funded by the United Nations Foundation.

A lack of support: Australia’s new law requiring technology companies to give law enforcement agencies access to customers’ encrypted communications isn’t so popular with the public, The Economist reports. The government there received 343 public comments leading up to the vote in favor of the law, and only one person expressed support.

A lonely monastery. Sunrise over the desert. A walk through a national park. These are just a few of the spectacular sights captured in the winners of the international Wiki Loves Earth photography competition, announced today.

Isabel Veloso falou sobre o projeto Novas Medidas Contra a Corrupção A pesquisadora do Centro de Justiça e Sociedade (CJUS) da FGV Direito Rio, Isabel Veloso, participou, no dia 4 de dezembro, da audiência pública realizada na Comissão de Constituição e Justiça do Senado Federal para celebrar o dia Internacional de Combate à Corrupção.

Esta foi a primeira edição da premiação No último dia 12 de dezembro foi realizada a entrega do Prêmio FGV Direito Rio – Melhores Práticas em Regulação. A premiação, que está em sua primeira edição, tem como objetivo reconhecer iniciativas inovadoras em matérias como transparência, governança, participação, gestão e proteção aos direitos dos consumidores ou usuários. Conheça abaixo os projetos vencedores.
 
Projeto vencedor
“Um modelo prático e funcional da Gestão do Estoque Regulatório” – Anvisa

Affordable rental space for creative or social uses in Amsterdam is
rare, which impacts youth, elderly people and minorities who have few
places to meet for social and community activities. Now a former
Catholic church in the Waterlandpleinbuurt neighbourhood is providing
members of community organization Stichting Bildung with a soon-to-be
fully functioning neighbourhood living room.

This presentation at the Platform Coop Conference in Hong Kong 2018 shows how an aboriginal community that was bleeding out its young, completely recovered by adapting to a cooperative strategy, choosing technological and value sovereignty to recreate community and cohesion.

Platform Cooperativism Consortium 2018, Sept 28 | Day 1 Showcases I: Coops and Platform Conversions in Chinese ContextsAmin Yosyo–Smangus Aboriginal Community Labor Coop, Taiwan

Unter der „Brownschen Molekularbewegung“ versteht man das zufällige Bewegungsbild mikroskopisch kleiner Teilchen, die in einem Medium ständig von umgebenden Molekülen angestoßen werden. Albert Einstein erklärte diese Zusammenhänge zum ersten Mal theoretisch und fand dabei heraus, dass das Bewegungsmuster eines idealisierten Mikroteilchens – entgegen der alltäglichen Erfahrung – nicht von seiner Masse abhängt. Sogar sogenannte „aktive Materie“ – also Teilchen wie Bakterien, die über einen eigenen Antrieb verfügen – sollte sich so verhalten.

TATuP Edition 3/18, Topic: Drones in civil and military applicationUnmanned and increasingly autonomous flight systems are conquering airspace. TATuP 3/2018 deals with the civil and military use of drones, possible paths of technology development, their actors and the need for a legal framework for current and future applications.Today, drones are used in different areas. The development of autonomous weapon systems is of  high priority for more and more states. The UN and human rights organizations are already warning of potentially catastrophic consequences.

Silicon Plateau is an art project and publishing series that explores the intersection of technology, culture and society in the Indian city of Bangalore. Each volume of the series is a themed repository for research, artworks, essays and interviews that observe the ways technology permeates the urban environment and the lives of its inhabitants.

Very much worth watching and hearing: civilisational systems have their stories and narratives, and they matter as these patterns of meaning drive our reactive capacities to challenges. Which new one do we need now ?

Résumé.
Les données massives ou Big Data vont révolutionner les pratiques sociales de notre société. Elles s’intègrent dans une nouvelle représentation de l’humain et du vivre ensemble. Les enjeux éthiques sont majeurs.

Los inventos, el diseño industrial y la literatura anarquista, son parte de los temas en que indaga el artista Daniel Reyes León a través de "Montaña: Máquinas de ocio" instalación abierta a público en el recientemente inaugurado Espacio Alta Tensión de MAC Parque Forestal.