I'm in San Diego at the Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide (PPDD) 2017 conference. PPDD engages a broad diversity of individuals and organizations to spearhead a multi-associational, multi-disciplinary partnership among scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to make significant contributions in closing the digital divide and addressing the many other challenges and opportunities presented by the digital age.

A Field Book for World Food Program Staff: “The field book outlines the main risks for staff engaged in mobile data collection and helps promote responsible data collection/storage/sharing in the very complex environment in which WFP operates…(Conducting Mobile Surveys Responsibly: A Field Book for WFP Staff, May 2017)

I'm in San Diego at the Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide (PPDD) 2017 conference. PPDD engages a broad diversity of individuals and organizations to spearhead a multi-associational, multi-disciplinary partnership among scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to make significant contributions in closing the digital divide and addressing the many other challenges and opportunities presented by the digital age.

Dia 20 de março de 2017 aconteceu o  Café & Chat: Capitalismo de Dados e Big Data. Ocorreu um debate abordando as características e implicações do big data; as perspectivas futuras sobre a evolução dessa técnica; os impactos das novas técnicas de tratamentos de dados, possibilitadas pelas tecnologias digitais, na organização capitalista dos mercados; os desafios e perspectivas regulatórias do big data.

Os participantes dessa edição foram: Daniela Muradas Reis, Gustavo de Britto Rocha e Luiz Enrique Zárate.

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Wasim Ahmed at Data Driven Journalism: “Journalists may wish to use data from social media platforms in order to provide greater insight and context to a news story. For example, journalists may wish to examine the contagion of hashtags and whether they are capable of achieving political or social change.

Timothy Revell at New Scientist: “The use of data analytics by political parties has piqued the interest of the Information Commissioner’s Office, a UK public body that protects data rights.

A Latin American Guide to the International Court of Justice Case Law - lançamento dos livros em parceria com as editoras inglesas Cambridge Scholars Publishing e Routlege11h00 até 13h00O Evento:  

Vagas limitadas - Sem necessidade de inscrição prévia
 
Local: Sede FGV - Praia de Botafogo, 190 - Hall do 8° andar

Last month Open Knowledge Germany hosted the first Datensummit, a two-day festival for those who shape development within the fields of open data, transparency, data literacy and civic tech.

David Byrne: I have a theory that much recent tech development and innovation over the last decade or so has had an unspoken overarching agenda—it has been about facilitating the need for LESS human interaction. It’s not a bug—it’s a feature. We might think Amazon was about selling us books we couldn’t find locally—and it was and what a brilliant idea—but maybe it was also just as much about eliminating human interaction.

Open Data Kosovo is a civic-tech organization that uses technology to contribute towards social good.

Today, the Stanford Law Review published my very first single-authored publication, “Expanding the Periphery and Threatening the Core: The Ascendant Libertarian Speech Tradition.” This article contributes to the legal scholarly literature about the rise in the mid-to-late twentieth century

‘I have read and agree to the terms’ is commonly regarded as one of the biggest lies on the Internet. In 2014, a company called F-Secure put this to test and set up a free Wi-Fi hotspot in London. One of the terms for accessing the Wi-Fi was for users to assign their firstborn child […]

Este sábado 13 de mayo, todo el territorio nacional, a excepción de la Región de Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena, deberá retroceder en una hora sus relojes. ¿Hay efectos negativos o positivos con este cambio?, ¿cuánto duran? Expertos de la U. de Chile responden desde sus diferentes miradas.
Durante las últimas semanas, los escolares y universitarios que tienen sus clases en la mañana han iniciado sus jornadas en salas con la luz encendida dado los bajos niveles de luminosidad, ya que a las ocho de la mañana no está totalmente claro.

El proyecto colaborativo llamado EPIC4, en el que participan investigadores de diversas instituciones internacionales -entre ellas la U. de Chile-, será clave en el desarrollo del mejoramiento genético de la principal especie de salmón cultivada en nuestro país, lo que permitirá enfrentar las mortales patologías de la producción local, sin vacunas ni antiobióticos. Hoy el problema mayor en Chile es la bacteria Piscirickettsia salmonis y el extoparásito Caligus.

Por cuarto año consecutivo la Casa de Bello será parte de este encuentro internacional impulsado por la UNESCO, bajo el título de "Curiosidad para crear". Con actividades que incluyen visitas guiadas, talleres y conciertos, nuestra institución reafirma su compromiso con la educación artística y el aseguramiento del acceso al arte y la cultura.

Mudanças na era Trump?

This month we’re excited to be sharing initial findings from the Phase II Promise Tracker case studies, developed over the past year with partners at the University of São Paulo’s Colaboratory for Development and Participation (Colab-USP).

Michel Levi C. é professor da Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar (Quito)A Cátedra Jean Monnet da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro (Direito Rio) recebe, no dia 24 de maio, às 15h50, o professor Michel Levi C., da Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar, do Equador. O convidado internacional vai palestrar sobre a relação entre a União Europeia e os países da América do Sul.

Trabalhos devem ser submetidos até 12 de junhoA Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da FGV (Direito Rio), em parceria com o Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, realiza, em agosto, o expert workshop com o tema “Transformative Constitutionalism in Latin America and International Economic Law: Avoiding Conflict and Fostering Dialogue”. O evento será realizado na sede da FGV, no Rio de Janeiro e os interessados em participar devem submeter seus artigos até 12 de junho.

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