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Café & Chat: Dilemas jurídicos da inteligência artificial

O Café & Chat voltou! Organizada pelo GNET – UFMG e pelo IRIS – Instituto de Referência em Internet e Sociedade, esta edição teve como tema Os Dilemas Jurídicos da Inteligência Artificial. Na roda debates, Brunello Stancioli (Direito UFMG), Carolina Nasser (Direito UFMG), Luiz Chaimowicz (Departamento de Ciência da Computação UFMG) e Renato César Cardoso (Direito UFMG).

Africa’s health won’t improve without reliable data and collaboration

Is Open Data the Death of FOIA?

Beth Noveck at the Yale Law Journal: “For fifty years, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) has been the platinum standard for open government in the United States. The statute is considered the legal bedrock of the public’s right to know about the workings of our government. More than one hundred countries and all fifty states have enacted their own freedom of information laws.

Comparing resistance to open data performance measurement

Paper by Gregory Michener and Otavio Ritter in Public Administration : “Much is known about governmental resistance to disclosure laws, less so about multi-stakeholder resistance to open data. This study compares open data initiatives within the primary and secondary school systems of Brazil and the UK, focusing on stakeholder resistance and corresponding policy solutions.

Towards a DataPlace: mapping data in a game to encourage participatory design in smart cities

Paper by Barker, Matthew; Wolff, Annika and van der Linden, Janet: “The smart city has been envisioned as a place where citizens can participate in city decision making and in the design of city services. As a key part of this vision, pervasive digital technology and open data legislation are being framed as vehicles for citizens to access rich data about their city.

Vacancy - Legal Researcher with interest in Law & ICT

Openbudgets.eu launches collection of fiscal transparency tools for journalists and civil society organisations.


Berlin, November 21, 2016 – Today, the beta version of OpenBudgets is officially released to the public. The Horizon 2020-funded project seeks to advance transparency and accountability in the fiscal domain by providing journalists, CSOs, NGOs, citizens and public administrations with state-of-the-art tools needed to effectively process and analyze financial data.

New UN resolution on the right to privacy in the digital age: crucial and timely

Deborah Brown at the Internet Policy Review: “The rapid pace of technological development enables individuals all over the world to use new information and communications technologies (ICTs) to improve their lives.

New Institute Pushes the Boundaries of Big Data

Press Release: “Each year thousands of genomes are sequenced, millions of neuronal activity traces are recorded, and light from hundreds of millions of galaxies is captured by our newest telescopes, all creating datasets of staggering size. These complex datasets are then stored for analysis.

Artificial Intelligence in Asia

Digital Asia Hub, in collaboration with the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet and Society, kicked off its Artificial Intelligence(AI) in Asia series of workshops examining AI in the Asian context on November 21.
Designed as a framing event for the region, it brought together a fantastic group of scholars, policymakers, investors, technologists and artists. We celebrated our anniversary with a reception after: with everything from a pop-up art show (featuring artists who use or critique AI and machine learning)  a panel moderated by a Pultizer Prize winning journalist.

U. de Chile inició su aniversario galardonando a mejores docentes

Con una ceremonia en la que 39 académicos y académicas de todas las facultades e institutos de la Universidad de Chile recibieron el diploma que los acredita como los mejores del plantel, la Casa de Bello inició la celebración de sus 174 años de existencia.

Científicos compartieron su trabajo con la comunidad de Magallanes

El jueves 10 y viernes 11 de noviembre, parte de los investigadores que integraron esta actividad compartieron su experiencia de trabajo en el campo científico, principalmente con escolares de Punta Arenas y Puerto Natales.

Nelson Mandela: un legado de paz, reconciliación y servicio

Nuestro plantel y la Embajada de Sudáfrica en Chile se unieron para resaltar la figura del activista contra el apartheid, y quien fuera el primer presidente negro de su país entre 1994 a 1999. El embajador de Sudáfrica, Hilton Fisher, el Rector Ennio Vivaldi, y la académica Astrid Espaliat, recordaron a uno de los más destacados líderes mundiales del último tiempo. Nelson Mandela vivió para servir a otros. Sus logros no apuntaban a conseguir un beneficio propio, sino de lograr las metas de su prójimo”, dijo el embajador Fisher.

Casa de Bello despidió a funcionarios que se acogieron a retiro

Acompañados de familiares, colegas y amigos, más de doscientos integrantes de la comunidad universitaria fueron reconocidos en una ceremonia de despedida, realizada en el Salón de Honor de la Casa Central.

“Lo importante de estas elecciones no es quién ha ganado, sino quién ha perdido”

“Lo importante de estas elecciones no es quién ha ganado, sino quién ha perdido”
Mesa redonda sobre las elecciones americanas con Carmen Beatriz Fernández, Marcelino Miyares, Rafa Rubio y Jordi Rodríguez Virgili

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Rocío del Prado

Podcast: Icelandic Media and Information Policy

La Universidad, número 1 de España y 37 del mundo en el ranking de empleabilidad QS 2017

La Universidad, número 1 de España y 37 del mundo en el ranking de empleabilidad QS 2017
El sistema universitario español sigue mejorando, con 10 centros entre los 205 mejores a nivel internacional

FOTO: Manuel Castells

23/11/16 11:26

Internet trust at all time low; not enough being done to protect data, says Internet Society report

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Smartphones and Privacy: Unique Research Project by MIT and the University of Amsterdam

CIIPC-NLUD Workshop on Wikipedia Editing and Open Source Knowledge Sources

Centre for Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Competition (CIIPC), National Law university, Delhi as part of its Open Science Project, had organised WikiEdit2016 a two day workshop regarding orientation on editing Wikipedia and hands-on-training session. The event was organized on November 11 and 12, 2016 at National Law University in New Delhi.
Rohini Lakshané and Tanveer Hasan conducted and facilitated this workshop.