Book by Ann Mei Chang: “As we know all too well, the pace of progress is falling far short of both the desperate needs in the world and the ambitions of the Sustainable Development Goals. Today, it’s hard to find anyone who disputes the need for innovation for global development.
Paper by Jane Lawrence Sumner, Emily M. Farris, and Mirya R. Holman: “The adage “All politics is local” in the United States is largely true. Of the United States’ 90,106 governments, 99.9% are local governments. Despite variations in institutional features, descriptive representation, and policy making power, political scientists have been slow to take advantage of these variations.
Jean-François Bonnefon, Iyad Rahwan et al in Nature: “With the rapid development of artificial intelligence have come concerns about how machines will make moral decisions, and the major challenge of quantifying societal expectations about the ethical principles that should guide machine behaviour. To address this challenge, we deployed the Moral Machine, an online experimental platform designed to explore the moral dilemmas faced by autonomous vehicles.
“Figshare’s annual report, The State of Open Data 2018, looks at global attitudes towards open data. It includes survey results of researchers and a collection of articles from industry experts, as well as a foreword from Ross Wilkinson, Director, Global Strategy at Australian Research Data Commons. The report is the third in the series and the survey results continue to show encouraging progress that open data is becoming more embedded in the research community.
“I don’t believe in borders, I don’t like flags, I have no boundaries.
My only homeland: friendship, love and justice for all.”
Dedicated to the memory of
Myra Landau (1926–2018)
This blog was written by James McKinney, Oscar Montiel and Ana Brandusescu
For the second time in history, the International Open Data Conference (IODC) opened a space for us to talk about #openwashing. The insights from IODC16 have been brilliantly summarised by Ana Brandusescu, also a host of this year’s session.
Shifts in our communication infrastructures have reshaped the very possibilities of social order driven by markets and commercial exploitation. Some people even regard this as a new form of capitalism. Focused on data extraction rather than the production of new goods, “surveillance capitalism” generates intense concentrations of power over extraction and threatens core values such…
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Cerca de 4.000 personas asistieron el sábado 13 de octubre a la primera de las dos jornadas de la XII Fiesta de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, organizada por el PAR Explora de CONICYT Región Metropolitana Sur Oriente.
La iniciativa de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM) es la actividad de difusión científica más grande de la Casa de Bello, y contará en esta oportunidad con más de 70 charlas magistrales, exhibiciones temáticas y stands de las carreras de ingeniería y ciencia que se imparten en dicha unidad académica.El campus Beauchef se prepara para abrir sus puertas este 18, 19 y 20 de octubre para mostrar la ciencia, la tecnología y la innovación que allí desarrollan, en el IV Festival de Ingeniería y Ciencias de la Facultad de Ciencia
La representante de la Oficina de Educación Internacional y Becas del plantel danés conoció esta semana la Universidad de Chile en el marco del Programa Erasmus+ de la Unión Europea, que considera movilidad de funcionarios, estudiantes y profesores.
The European Parliament recently took the final vote on the new Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD). The text, which can be considered final, now awaits only the formal approval of the Council. The AVMSD will become the first legally binding instrument to impose new, and extensive, responsibilities for content regulation on privately owned Internet platforms. They are required to establish and apply detailed rules in areas such as hate speech, child pornography, protection of children’s development and preventing terrorism.
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Heidi J. Larson at Nature: “A hundred years ago this month, the death rate from the 1918 influenza was at its peak. An estimated 500 million people were infected over the course of the pandemic; between 50 million and 100 million died, around 3% of the global population at the time.
Nicholas Carr’s blog: “A few years ago, the technology critic Michael Sacasas introduced the term “Borg Complex” to describe the attitude and rhetoric of modern-day utopians who believe that computer technology is an unstoppable force for good and that anyone who resists or even looks critically at the expanding hegemony of the digital is a benighted fool.
We are thrilled to welcome William Carbone as a new member of our International Advisory Board.
When you think about the work of art historians or genetics researchers, installing database software is not the first thing that comes to mind. Yet, from 19 to 21 September, Wikimedians, art curators, and scientists gathered at the New Museum in New York City’s Lower East Side for a three-day workshop to talk about an emerging technology designed to make storing and structuring data free and accessible.
Introducing the new Internet Society white paper, “Routing Security for Policymakers“
The global routing system is a lot like a water system in a city. It’s vitally important to the Internet and we tend to overlook it until something goes wrong.
Cantú-Pedraza (second row, far right) poses with her fellow Cabinet members and Mayor-elect Hon. Miguel B. Treviño.
Paper by Robert Chesney and Danielle Keats Citron: “Harmful lies are nothing new. But the ability to distort reality has taken an exponential leap forward with “deep fake” technology. This capability makes it possible to create audio and video of real people saying and doing things they never said or did. Machine learning techniques are escalating the technology’s sophistication, making deep fakes ever more realistic and increasingly resistant to detection.
Ever heard of public procurement? Public tenders? Public spending? It is what your government does with your hard earned taxes: hires companies to do things. In return for your taxes, companies build roads, buildings, deliver cozy office chairs for the ministries, or take care of catering for public schools.
29. 11. 2018 Stuttgart Hohenheimhttp://www.steinbeis.de/mediwa Digitalisation is fundamentally changing how we work. Networking and synergies are becoming ever more important due to the convergence of new and emerging technologies. In order to take advantage of this potential and shape cooperation at all levels and channels, communication plays a central role.