How States Engage in Evidence-Based Policymaking
The Pew Charitable Trusts: “Evidence-based policymaking is the systematic use of findings from program evaluations and outcome analyses (“evidence”) to guide government policy and funding decisions.
M.A.D.: Mutual Assured Disclosure online
Um dos conceitos mais instigantes mencionados durante o Internet Governance Forum 2016 foi o M.A.D. – Mutual Assured Disclosure (Divulgação Mútua Assegurada, em português).
What Does Big Data Mean For Sustainability?
Saurabh Tyagi at Sustainable Brands: “Everything around us is impacted by big data today.
Documenting Hate
Shan Wang at NiemanLab: “A family’s garage vandalized with an image of a swastika and a hateful message targeted at Arabs. Jewish community centers receiving bomb threats.
Mass Observation: The amazing 80-year experiment to record our daily lives
William Cook at BBC Arts: “Eighty years ago, on 30th January 1937, the New Statesman published a letter which launched the largest (and strangest) writers’ group in British literary history.
Using data and design to support people to stay in work
Cat Drew at Civil Service Quarterly: “…Data and digital are fairly understandable concepts in policy-making. But design? Why is it one of the three Ds?
Brazil’s Public Spending project is looking for leaders in various regions of Brazil to increase participation in the budgeting process.
On the 11th of January, OK Brazil launched its new Public Spending website.
Brazil’s Public Spending project is looking for leaders in various regions of Brazil to increase participation in the budgeting process.
On the 11th of January, OK Brazil launched its new Public Spending website.
Digital Wallet Security: Is there a framework?
Sidharth Deb* Since the announcement of India’s demonetisation policy, there has been a rapid surge in the number of online wallet transactions. The reasons for this are twofold: Cash scarcity; and The convenience afforded to consumers through e-wallet/online wallet services In furtherance of the policy of demonetisation, the Indian government has also incentivised online transactions […]
Se iniciará una nueva edición de la Escuela de Temporada en Arica
El montaje "Por Sospecha" del dramaturgo Luis Rivano dará el vamos a esta actividad de extensión universitaria que se realizará por primera vez en la puerta norte de Chile, organizada por la Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones de la Casa de Bello, la U. de Tarapacá y el Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes.
Admisión 2017: Excelencia, segregación y diversidad
"Un gran desafío para las universidades más selectivas del país es lograr compatibilizar excelencia académica con diversidad", señala en la siguiente columna de opinión el vicerrector de Asuntos Económicos de la U. de Chile, Enrique Manzur, quien analiza las profundas brechas que reveló una vez más el proceso de selección universitaria.
U. de Chile analiza formación en el área de actividad física y deporte
En el marco del compromiso de la Casa de Bello con la educación pública, la comisión encargada de estudiar una nueva carrera en el campo de la actividad física y del deporte recibió a la subsecretaria del Deporte, Nicole Sáez, quien les presentó las líneas generales de la Política Nacional de Actividad Física y Deporte 2016-2025.
GSK and MIT Flumoji app tracks influenza outbreaks with crowdsourcing
Beth Snyder Bulik at FiercePharma: “It’s like Waze for the flu. A new GlaxoSmithKline-sponsored app called Flumoji uses crowdsourced data to track influenza movement in real time.
Quantifying scenic areas using crowdsourced data
Chanuki Illushka Seresinhe, Helen Susannah Moat and Tobias Preis in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science: “For centuries, philosophers, policy-makers and urban planners have debated whether aesthetically pleasing surroundings can improve our wellbeing. To date, quantifying how scenic an area is has proved challenging, due to the difficulty of gathering large-scale measurements of scenicness.
HIIG research magazine: encore 2016
The latest edition of encore is hot off the press. We are glad to be able to share so many exciting findings and insights with you! Immerse yourself in the day-to-day working... MORE
Lunch talk with Arne Hintz
The collection and processing of massive amounts of data is becoming an increasingly contentious issue. In this public talk on 22 February, Arne Hintz will explore what datafication means for... MORE
Digitaler Salon: Make Fakten relevant again
Make facts relevant again. We’ll figure out whether emotions have replaced reason and how enlightened citizens can oppose populism. How can we save democracy in times of newsbots, fear and... MORE
Conceptualizing Big Social Data
Ekaterina Olshannikova, Thomas Olsson, Jukka Huhtamäki and Hannu Kärkkäinen in the Journal of Big Data: “The popularity of social media and computer-mediated communication has resulted in high-volume and highly semantic data about digital social interactions. This constantly accumulating data has been termed as Big Social Data or Social Big Data, and various visions about how to utilize that have been presented.
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