Sue Brideshead at Motherboard: “The tech industry has talked long and hard about democratizing industries. Democratizing content, democratizing taxi-cabs, and democratizing bed and breakfasts. But what about democratizing democracy?
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The Open Government Partnership: “The search for these stories ended with finding seven very different reform initiatives in different regions and covering a broad range of open government topics.
Teresa Scassa and Alexandra Diebel in Journal of e-Democracy: “This paper explores how real-time data are made available as “open data” using municipal transit data as a case study. Many transit authorities in North America and elsewhere have installed technology to gather GPS data in real-time from transit vehicles. These data are in high demand in app developer communities because of their use in communicating predicted, rather than scheduled, transit vehicle arrival times.
Del Centro Avanzado en Enfermedades Crónicas (ACCDiS) y de la Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas provienen los académicos que están trabajando en una forma alternativa de administrar la insulina, que habitualmente se inyectan los pacientes, a partir de películas que contengan el medicamento para su absorción por las mucosas bucales, gracias a una tecnología que estabiliza sus partículas.
La Casa de Bello tuvo una significativa participación en las comisiones de investigación, desarrollo e innovación (I+D+i) sobre gestión del agua y resiliencia frente a desastres naturales que entregaron sus resultados a la Presidenta Michelle Bachelet.
Bert A. Rockman in the Special 30th Anniversary Issue of Governance: “The editors of Governance have asked me to assess the extent and nature of change in the governing process since the origins of the journal 30 years ago. This is an engaging task but a difficult one. It is difficult because trend lines rarely have a definitive beginning point—or at least if similar tendencies are seen across national boundaries, they rarely begin at the same time.
Nicola Lettieri, Antonio Altamura and Delfina Malandrino at InfoVis: “This work presents Knowlex, a web application designed for visualization, exploration, and analysis of legal documents coming from different sources. Understanding the legal framework relating to a given issue often requires the analysis of complex legal corpora.
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Introduction by Brigitte Geissel, Marianne Kneuer, and Hans-Joachim Lauth of Special Issue of the International Political Science Review on Measuring the Quality of Democracy: “Within the last couple of years, scholarly interest in measuring democracy e
Bernhard Rieder at Digital Culture & Society: “This paper develops a critique of Big Data and associated analytical techniques by focusing not on errors – skewed or imperfect datasets, false positives, underrepresentation, and so forth – but on data mining that works.
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) employs an army of trolls to harass and intimidate critics through social media, a new book claims.
The article by Samanth Subramanian was published in the National on December 31, 2016. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.
Urban Transport Group: “Transformative technological changes are shaping the world and unleashing unprecedented volumes of data. Transport is a key generator of emerging data and also stands to be a significant beneficiary of new products, services, insights and ways of working that accompany this.
Atreyi Kankanhalli et al in Government Information Quarterly: “New models of innovation are emerging in the marketplace and these are rapidly replacing traditional corporate research labs as the sole source of new ideas, new technologies, and new practices.
Paula Helm at Digital Culture & Society: “New technologies pose new challenges on the protection of privacy and they stimulate new debates on the scope of privacy. Such debates usually concern the individuals’ right to control the flow of his or her personal information. The article however discusses new challenges posed by new technologies in terms of their impact on groups and their privacy.
Paul Hitlin at Pew Research Center: “Americans are most likely to petition the White House on health care, veterans’ issues, illnesses, immigration, animal rights, holidays and criminal investigations, but the actual impact of petitions was modest and varied…
Paper by Adam Hill: “Critics frequently argue that nudges are more covert, less transparent, and more difficult to monitor than traditional regulatory tools.
Los últimos resultados de la prueba internacional PISA, mostraron que Chile es uno de los países con mayores brechas de género en contra de las niñas en ciencias y matemáticas, áreas académicas en las que, por el contrario, Finlandia muestra mejores resultados para las niñas. Alejandra Mizala, directora del Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación (CIAE) y académica del Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, reflexiona esta situación en la siguiente columna.En PISA 2015, la única prueba donde las mujeres obtuvieron mejores resultados que los hombres fue en Lectura.