El decano José De Gregorio y los profesores de esta unidad académica Eduardo Engel, Ramón López y Alejandro Micco, se ubicaron entre los economistas más citados del mundo en el ranking 2018 del Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) de IDEAS, la base de datos bibliográfica en economía más grande del mundo.Cuatro de los diez economistas chilenos que figuran dentro del 5 por ciento de los autores más citados del mundo en esta disciplina son académicos de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios (FEN) de la Universidad de Chile.

Con un llamado a que como sociedad "no podemos ser solo espectadores", el Movimiento "Derechos sin Fronteras", conformado por diversas organizaciones sociales e instituciones -entre ellas la Casa de Bello, América Solidaria y la Fundación para la Superación de la Pobreza-, emitió una declaración respecto a la situación de las más de 7 mil personas que conforman la caravana migrante que se dirige desde Centro América a Estados Unidos, y que hoy se encuentra en México.

En la ceremonia, presidida por el Rector Ennio Vivaldi -y que contó con la presencia del decano de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Carlos Ruiz Schneider-, el profesor Vermeren dictó la charla "Filosofía interrumpida", donde hizo un repaso y un paralelo de los principales exponentes chilenos y franceses de la filosofía en el siglo XX.Con la presencia de autoridades de la Embajada de Francia y de la Universidad de Chile, encabezadas por el Rector Ennio Vivaldi, se realizó la entrega de la medalla Doctor Honoris Causa al filósofo, investigador y académico eméri

Luego de una etapa de consolidación administrativa, manifestó el vicerrector Asuntos Estudiantiles y Comunitarios (VAEC), Juan Cortés, "estamos preparando una segunda etapa donde las políticas que diseñemos permeen la cultura estudiantil e institucional para comprender que el desarrollo de los y las estudiantes contempla más dimensiones que la disciplinar". Esto, con el objetivo de promover una formación integral y una convivencia armónica al interior de la comunidad.

Este viernes 26 de octubre falleció Ana González de Recaberren, incansable luchadora por los Derechos Humanos en nuestro país, quien durante la dictadura militar de Augusto Pinochet perdió a manos de los aparatos represivos del Estado a dos de sus hijos, su nuera y su marido, todos ellos detenidos desaparecidos hasta hoy. La última entrevista que diera Ana Gónzalez fue publicada en la última edición de la Revista Palabra Pública de la Universidad de Chile. En homenaje y agradecimiento a su vida y lucha, la Casa de Bello la despide a través de este texto.

Bill Curry at The Globe and Mail: “Canadians are increasingly shunning phone surveys, but they could still be providing Statistics Canada with valuable data each time they flush the toilet or flash their debit card.
The national statistics agency laid out an ambitious plan Thursday to overhaul the way it collects and reports on issues ranging from cannabis and opioid use to market-moving information on unemployment and economic growth.

Paper by Mila Gasco-Hernandez and  Jose Ramon Gil-Garcia: “Previous studies have infrequently addressed the dynamic interactions among social, technical, and organizational variables in open government data initiatives. In addition, organization level models have neglected to explain the role of management in decision-making processes about technology and data.

Matthew Schutte, Director of Communications at Holo; Michael Linton, designer of LETSystem; and Sheron Shamuilia from Happonomy present their ideas from decades of research into the nature of money and discuss how a deeper understanding of “signals” and “transactions” inform a new view of the types of “money” which are appropriate for a new economy.

Only 8% of the respondents marked 10 as their trust score on a scale of 1-10, where 1 stands for complete distrust and 10 for complete trust, in information received on WhatsApp, found a survey.
The article by Vidhi Choudhary was published in the Hindustan Times on October 19, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

Ever since the Supreme Court’s judgment on Aadhaar, which prohibited the use of the 12-digit biometrics-linked unique identity number by private entities as well as its linking with phone numbers and bank accounts, telecom companies and their customers in particular are wondering what this means for them.
The blog post by Kanishk Karan was published in Scroll.in on October 18, 2018. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.

Data shows that the share of active WhatsApp users in rural India has doubled since 2017, according to a survey by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.
The article by Vidhi Choudhary was published in Hindustan Times on October 21, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

On September 25, 2018, Elonnai Hickok participated in a side event Confidentiality of Communications and Privacy of Data in the Digital Age organized by INCLO and Privacy International at the Human Rights Council 39th ordinary session. Elonnai spoke on artificial intelligence and privacy.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/confidentiality-of-communications-and-privacy-of-data-in-the-digital-age

Lessons from the new World Bank Global Report: “Almost daily, headlines in the world’s leading newspapers are full of examples of public sector failures: public money is mismanaged or outright misused; civil servants are not motivated or are poorly trained; government agencies fail to coordinate wi

Book edited by Torin Monahan and David Murakami Wood: “Surveillance is everywhere: in workplaces monitoring the performance of employees, social media sites tracking clicks and uploads, financial institutions logging transactions, advertisers amassing fine-grained data on customers, and security agencies siphoning up everyone’s telecommunications activities. Surveillance practices-although often hidden-have come to define the way modern institutions operate.

Paper by H.G. (Haiko)van der Voort et al: “Big data promises to transform public decision-making for the better by making it more responsive to actual needs and policy effects. However, much recent work on big data in public decision-making assumes a rational view of decision-making, which has been much criticized in the public administration debate.

Natasha Rausch at Bloomberg: “At Houston’s City Hall last week, Mayor Sylvester Turner gathered with company CEOs, university professors, police officers, politicians and local judges to discuss a $6 billion problem they all have in common: the 2020 census.

Paper by Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, David Huffman and Nick Netzer: “Trust affects almost all human relationships – in families, organizations, markets and politics. However, identifying the conditions under which trust, defined as people’s beliefs in the trustworthiness of others, has a causal effect on the efficiency of human interactions has proven to be difficult. We show experimentally and theoretically that trust indeed has a causal effect.

Cities have been caught in the middle of a clash: they are stuck competing for business investments while, simultaneously, seeking to meet the needs of their inhabitants through access to public goods and social services.

Kelsey Sutton at Adweek: “As Hurricane Michael approached the Florida Panhandle, the Florida Division of Emergency Management tapped a tech company for help.

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Date published: October 27, 2018The Register""This case adds to the disagreement over how to analyze compelled decryption orders in the context of passcodes," said Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, in an email to The Register."