Nicholas Diakopoulos and Sorelle Friedler at MIT Technology Review:  Algorithms are now used throughout the public and private sectors, informing decisions on everything from education and employment to criminal justice.

According to a study conducted by Centre for Internet and Society last month, many of the most-commonly used mobile apps for food delivery, online payments, grocery shopping and transportation were not accessible to the visually challenged.

Mita Sarkar, a mother of a six-year-old girl who has cerebral palsy (CP) had to approach around ten private schools for her daughter's admission. She heard the same response from every school she approached: “Education is for all and we accept all children, but we are not equipped to school your child”.
The article by Akhila Damodaran was published in the New Indian Express on November 28, 2016. Nirmita Narasimhan was quoted.

Los investigadores del Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de la Universidad de Chile y del Núcleo Milenio Información y Coordinación en Redes desarrollan un modelo que busca optimizar el sistema de fiscalización del transporte público. "Stackelberg" es el nombre de este nuevo sistema de fiscalización del Transantiago, ideado por miembros de nuestra Casa de Estudios.

A missão do ITS Rio é fazer com que a tecnologia seja aliada no desenvolvimento do Brasil. No final de novembro, organizamos a Semana Brasil Inovador, que tratou de alguns temas-chave para o presente e futuro do país. Em dezembro, a equipe do ITS vai atuar globalmente para dar continuidade a essa discussão. Estaremos em três importantes eventos globais sobre governança da Internet, blockchain e governo aberto.
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Gonzalo Viña in the Financial Times (Special Report: Innovation in Healthcare): “When a top Formula One team is using pit stop data-gathering technology to help a drugmaker improve the way it makes ventilators f

By Raissa Campagnaro[1] The Brazilian Federal Prosecution Ministry has brought civil proceedings against Google for flouting its data protection law. The suit challenges Google’s access to the content of emails exchanged by Gmail users on multiple grounds, including Google’s failure to obtain express consent. In October, 2016, Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor filed a public civil suit […]

Platforms like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram structure public discussion and news perception. As their user numbers grow steadily their influence grows mutually. José van Dijck, professor at the department of... MORE

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Paper by Suzanne J. Piotrowski on “The Case of the Open Government Partnership and U.S. Transparency Policies”: “Open government initiatives, which include not only transparency but also participation and collaboration policies, have become a major administrative reform. As such, these initiatives are gaining cohesiveness in literature.

Earlier this year, I wrote that the wiretap numbers reported by the Administrative Office (AO) of the US Courts in its 2014 Wiretap Report and those disclosed in transparency reports by the major telecommunications companies just didn’t add up. While the AO reported 3554 wiretaps in 2014, the four major U.S. carriers reported 10,712 wiretaps implemented for the same period -- a threefold discrepancy.
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Book edited by Marco Adria and Yuping Mao: “New media forums have created a unique opportunity for citizens to participate in a variety of social and political contexts. As new social technologies are being utilized in a variety of ways, the public is able to interact more effectively in activities within their communities.

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Open Science’s utopia: Making science as transparent as possible. But reality looks different, since knowledge is mostly distributed by major publishers. Our new dossier provides a look behind paywalls, discovers... MORE

Este jueves 17 de noviembre en el Salón de Honor de la Casa Central se celebró la Ceremonia Oficial de Aniversario de la Universidad de Chile, instancia que fue liderada por el Rector Ennio Vivaldi, y en la que participó la ministra de Educación, Adriana Delpiano, además de diversas autoridades políticas y académicas. "Vamos a liderar una gran fuerza que reconstruya y revitalice la educación pública chilena, que vuelva a fundir en una misión común los servicios públicos", dijo el Rector en la instancia.

La publicación reúne las ponencias de académicos de distintas disciplinas y líderes de movimientos sociales sobre las manifestaciones vividas en el país en el último tiempo, quienes se reunieron en un seminario realizado en la Universidad de la Frontera, en el marco de las actividades de la Iniciativa Bicentenario Juan Gómez Millas."Pensar Chile, desde las Ciencias Sociales y las Humanidades.

Un estudio conjunto entre el Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación (CIAE) de nuestra Casa de Estudios y la Universidad de Helsinki, busca identificar en escolares chilenos y finlandeses emociones y el grado de compromiso con las clases de ciencias, para aumentar el interés de niñas y grupos minoritarios por seguir carreras ligadas al área de la tecnología, ingeniería y matemáticas.

Educación, investigación, conservación e integración al desarrollo de la comunidad son los ejes que sustentan el modelo que implementará esta institución y que pretende transformar el sur en el norte que guíe el mundo hacia un modelo de desarrollo sustentable. En él trabajarán en conjunto la U.