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La iniciativa del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la U. de Chile (MAC) propone extender a Arica, Antofagasta y Coquimbo la plataforma virtual e interactiva de intercambio entre educadores del museo, docentes de artes visuales y estudiantes. El programa fue beneficiado con un Fondo Concursable Fomento al Arte en la Educación (FAE) 2017.

"El amanecer de la telemedicina -que permite a los médicos controlar a los pacientes desde lejos- es prometedor, sobre todo para aquellos que viven en zonas remotas. Muy útil para un país largo y angosto como Chile", señalan en la siguiente columna publicada este 2 de mayo en El Mercurio, el Prorrector de nuestro plantel, Rafael Epstein, el director del MIT Sloan Latin America Office (MSLAO), Lee Ullmann, y el miembro del Consejo Asesor del (MSLAO), Marcelo Larraguibel.

Seminario organizado por la Universidad de Chile congregó a especialistas para abordar la experiencia israelí en el manejo y uso eficiente del agua. El esfuerzo público y privado en investigación, riego eficiente, reutilización y desalinización fueron algunos de los temas centrales de la actividad.

Más de un centenar de estudiantes extranjeros asistieron a la bienvenida que la Casa de Bello brindó a estos nuevos alumnos internacionales. El evento contó con la participación de diversas autoridades y académicos, quienes además presentaron el universo de opciones que la Universidad ofrece en ámbitos como investigación, formación, movilidad y bienestar.

El académico e investigador de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades de la Universidad de Chile, fue escogido para incorporarse a dicho organismo en base a sus aportes en materias relacionadas con las ciencias y las artes del idioma.

Paper by Matheus Araujo et al at ArXiv: “Every day, millions of users reveal their interests on Facebook, which are then monetized via targeted advertisement marketing campaigns. In this paper, we explore the use of demographically rich Facebook Ads audience estimates for tracking non-communicable diseases around the world.

Featured innovations for the second STI Forum: “…The theme of the 2017 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) is “Eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world“, and the Member States have decided that the HLPF 2017 shall focus on six SDGs (1, 2, 3, 5, 9 and 14) in addition to SDG 17 that will be considered at each HLPF.

“ALTwitter” – as in the alternate Twitter is the profiles of the Members of European Parliaments built on their Twitter metadata. In spite of the risks and challenges associated with the privacy of ineffectively regulated metadata, the beauty of the metadata which everyone should appreciate lies in its brevity and flexibility.

Carlos Santiso at The Rockefeller Foundation Blog: “Driven by fast-paced technological innovations, an exponential growth of smartphones, and a daily stream of big data, the “digital revolution” is changing the way we live our lives. Nowhere are the changes more sweeping than in cities.

Inside the buzzing enrollment agency, young professionals wearing slim-fitting jeans and lanyards around their necks tapped away at keyboards and fiddled with fingerprint scanning devices as they helped build the biggest and most ambitious biometric database ever conceived.
The article by Shashank Bengali was published in the Los Angeles Times on May 12, 2017.

"My fingerprints and iris are mine and my own. The state cannot take away my body," a lawyer told India's Supreme Court last week.
The article by Soutik Biswas was published by BBC News on May 4, 2017.

The Modi government has been trying to make Aadhaar mandatory for everything from Income Tax return, buying a SIM card, bank transaction, train ticket, air travel, mid-day meal government subsidies etc.
The blog post by Bobins Abraham was published by India Times on May 3, 2017.

What’s worrying is that the UIDAI seems to always be in denial mode over security concerns.
The blog post was published by the News Minute on May 4, 2017. Amber Sinha was quoted.

Aadhaar numbers and personal information of as many as 135 million Indians could have been leaked from four government portals due to lack of IT security practices, the Centre for Internet and Society has claimed.
The article was published in the Times of India on May 2, 2017.

It the largest biometric database in the world and it is fraught with security issues.

Open data is not familiar with weekends! However, on Saturday, March 4th, 2017, public officials, civil society organisations, civic hackers and many interested citizens came together in Vicente López to share projects and ideas around open data. In this event, the community also began to discuss the present and future of open data in Argentina.
This year we focused the event on the topic of open data in local governments. We did so in different ways: Panels, roundtables, lightning talk and the development of the “Open Data Agenda 2017” of Argentina.

This blog post is part of our on-going Network series featuring updates from chapters across the Open Knowledge Network and was written by the Open Knowledge Austria team. 

CSER’s Catherine Rhodes provides an analysis of the importance of effective implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention in this week’s Bulletin of Atomic Scientists:

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