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U. de Chile se suma al desarrollo de una cultura de cuidado del agua

Este jueves 27 de julio se presentó en el Salón de Honor de Casa Central la "Estrategia Regional para el uso eficiente del agua en la comunidad escolar", iniciativa del Gobierno Regional Metropolitano y el Ministerio del Medio Ambiente, la cual está siendo apoyada por la Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservación de la Naturaleza, y que apunta a la educación de niños y jóvenes en torno al cuidado del recurso hídrido. En la instancia también se premió a los ganadores del concurso de video escolar "Cuida el agua", convocado por el Gobierno Regional Metropolitano.

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Stellenausschreibung – studentische Hilfskraft (m/w)

Am Institut für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht, Zivilrechtliche Abteilung wird ab dem 01.10.2017 eine
Studentische Hilfskraft (m/w)
mit einer Arbeitszeit von 5 Stunden / Woche gesucht.

Building Digital Government Strategies

Book by Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan et al: “This book provides key strategic principles and best practices to guide the design and implementation of digital government strategies. It provides a series of recommendations and findings to think about IT applications in government as a platform for information, services and collaboration, and strategies to avoid identified pitfalls.

Rise of the Government Chatbot

Zack Quaintance at Government Technology: “A robot uprising has begun, except instead of overthrowing mankind so as to usher in a bleak yet efficient age of cold judgment and colder steel, this uprising is one of friendly robots (so far).

Algorithms, robots and smart machines: How German parties deal with AI

Will it be necessary in the future to have the algorithms of your digital assistants checked by state authorities? This might depend on the results of the German parliamentary election... MORE

New Team Member - Benjamin Gerwoll-Ronca

New Team Member - Benjamin Gerwoll-Ronca

The Nudging Divide in the Digital Big Data Era

Julia M. Puaschunder in the International Robotics & Automation Journal: “Since the end of the 1970ies a wide range of psychological, economic and sociological laboratory and field experiments proved human beings deviating from rational choices and standard neo-classical profit maximization axioms to fail to explain how human actually behave.

Algorithmic Transparency for the Smart City

Paper by Robert Brauneis and Ellen P. Goodman: “Emerging across many disciplines are questions about algorithmic ethics – about the values embedded in artificial intelligence and big data analytics that increasingly replace human decisionmaking.

Scientists Use Google Earth and Crowdsourcing to Map Uncharted Forests

Katie Fletcher, Tesfay Woldemariam and Fred Stolle at EcoWatch: “No single person could ever hope to count the world’s trees. But a crowd of them just counted the world’s drylands forests—and, in the process, charted forests never before mapped, cumulatively adding up to an area equivalent in size to the Amazon rainforest.

Dois Dedos de Prosa sobre Criptografia, Direitos Humanos e o Caráter Moral do Trabalho Criptográfico

Mais um texto da nossa série de convidados externos, desta vez escrito pelo Grupo de Pesquisa em Direito e Tecnologia da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco com a colaboração dos pesquisadores André Lucas Fernandes, André Ramiro, Paula Côrte Real e Raquel Saraiva.

The rise of India’s typography community

Meet India’s typography community, as they adapt regional language scripts for the digital age and take their passion mainstream.

The GovLab Welcomes a New Director of Communications

Innovative Action-Research Center Expands Communications Team to Amplify Its Work in Open Data and Open Governance

21,3 por ciento de los jóvenes hasta 24 años está desempleado

De acuerdo a la medición, que se aplica desde 1956 y tiene representatividad a nivel de toda la Región, el desempleo aumentó 0,4 puntos porcentuales en junio -en comparación al mismo mes de 2016-, alcanzando el 8,0 por ciento. En tanto, el grupo de jóvenes hasta 24 años fue el que sostuvo una mayor alza en la tasa de desocupación.  Según el sondeo hay 2.924.000 personas ocupadas en el Gran Santiago, cifra inferior al promedio de los últimos doce meses.

50 km/h: una necesidad

"Llevamos 15 años con un límite de velocidad urbano de 60 km/h. Es el momento de que el Congreso revierta el error del cambio de ley introducido el año 2002, un error que cobró y sigue cobrando vidas", dice en la siguiente columna de opinión Alejandro Tirachini, académico del Departamento Ingeniería Civil de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de nuestro plantel, refiriéndose al cambio legislativo que reducirá la máxima velocidad en zonas urbanas.

Organizing Christians to Protect Migrant Rights: Robert Chao Romero

As latino communities face increased pressure and risks from US immigrations and customs, how are latinos of faith organizing to protect the vulnerable while also including white Christians in migrant-led efforts for change?

How data can heal our oceans

Nishan Degnarain and Steve Adler at WEF: “We have collected more data on our oceans in the past two years than in the history of the planet.

Getting on the map: How to fix the problem with addresses

Joshua Howgego at New Scientist: “Kwandengezi is a beguiling neighbourhood on the outskirts of Durban. Its ramshackle dwellings are spread over rolling green hills, with dirt roads winding in between. Nothing much to put it on the map. Until last year, that is, when weird signs started sprouting, nailed to doors, stapled to fences or staked in front of houses.

Steve Ballmer has a big idea: to be a partisan for the facts

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Personal finance questions elicit slightly different answers in phone surveys than online

 and   at Pew Research: “People polled by telephone are slightly less likely than those interviewed online to say their personal finances are in “poor shape” (14% versus 20%, respectively), a Pew Research Center