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Penn Engineering: “Gun violence is often described as an epidemic, but as visible and shocking as shooting incidents are, epidemiologists who study that particular source of mortality have a hard time tracking them.

Este 5 de octubre se realizó el segundo Encuentro Temático Transversal del "Proceso de Discusión de la Reforma de la Educación Superior", en la Universidad de Chile, instancia que fue liderada por el académico Raúl Atria, quien ofreció la charla "Sistema de Universidades Estatales: Necesidades de Transformación y Realidades". La actividad, que fue moderada por el decano de la Facultad de Derecho Davor Harasic -y la cual contó con la presencia del Rector Vivaldi-, puso sobre el debate temas como la autonomía, sustentabilidad e institucionalidad de las universidades públicas.

El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, sede Parque Forestal, fue el lugar escogido para congregar a la comunidad de dicha unidad académica a fin de poner a disposición en un solo espacio toda la oferta académica e informar a los jóvenes interesados en incorporarse a las carreras artísticas que ofrece la U.

Los recientes casos del SENAME y Gendarmería ocurridos en nuestro país, dejaron al descubierto la necesidad de una modernización de los procesos de gestión al interior del Estado. En la siguiente columna -publicada en La Segunda este jueves 6 de octubre-, el académico Claudio Pizarro del Centro Sistemas Públicos (CSP) del Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial da luces sobre el problema y traza estrategias para avanzar en este ámbito.

Uno de los aspectos más preocupantes respecto al sexismo en la sociedad chilena es cómo se segrega y se reproducen relaciones de género desde la sala de clases, afianzando esta situación.

RIA Executive Director, Prof. Alison Gillwald, addressed delegates at the 5th Meeting of the African Internet Governance Forum, AfIGF 2016, on the challenges of evidence–based policy formulation and safeguarding public interest outcomes in increasingly globalised and complex environment.

Prof.  Gillwald's presentation 'Inclusive development & digital transformation in Africa' may be viewed here.

National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi organized a seminar on quality of services in telecom and data in Delhi on September 21, 2016. Shyam Ponappa was a speaker.

NOTE: The title of the post was edited subsequent to the SC rejecting a plea to reexamine the meaning of Hindutva as interpreted in the 1996 Manohar Joshi judgment Today, a seven-judge Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court of India comprising of Chief Justice T.S Thakur and Justices Madan B. Lokur, S.A Bobde, A.K Goel, […]

“Recently, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton & Williams LLP, a privacy and information policy think tank based in Brussels, London and Washington, D.C., and Telefónica, one of the largest telecommunications company in the world, issued a joint white paper on Reframing Data Transparency (the “white paper”).

“The real story on how citizens and businesses are driving smart cities” by the Economist Intelligence Unit: “Digital technologies are the lifeblood of today’s cities. They are applied widely in industry and society, from information and communications technology (ICT) to the Internet of Things (IoT), in which objects are connected to the Internet.

Early October 2016 was a blast for internet research in Berlin. We present you the highlights! Together with our partners at Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research we hosted #AoIR2016 – the prestigous... MORE

Book edited by I. Glenn Cohen, Holly Fernandez Lynch, and Christopher T. Robertson: “Behavioral nudges are everywhere: calorie counts on menus, automated text reminders to encourage medication adherence, a reminder bell when a driver’s seatbelt isn’t fastened. Designed to help people make better health choices, these reminders have become so commonplace that they often go unnoticed.

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O REGULAMENTO GERAL DE PROTEÇÂO DE DADOS
A aprovação do Regulamento Geral de Proteção de Dados – Regulamento (UE) 2016/679 do Parlamento Europeu e do Conselho, de 27 de abril de 2016, publicado a 4 de maio – culmina um processo iniciado em 2012 e dá corpo a uma jurisprudência desenvolvida pelo Tribunal de Justiça da União Europeia, particularmente nos últimos três anos.
É um texto longo e complexo, que foi muito debatido e de cuja aprovação já se duvidava.

Book by Jonathan Tepperman: “We all know the bad news. The heady promise of the Arab Spring has given way to repression, civil war, and an epic refugee crisis. Economic growth is sputtering. Income inequality is rising around the world. And the threat of ISIS and other extremist groups keeps spreading. We are living in an age of unprecedented, irreversible decline—or so we’re constantly being told.

Josh Lerner and Madeleine Pape in the Journal of Public Deliberation: “Participatory budgeting (PB) has expanded dramatically in the United States (US) from a pilot process in Chicago’s 49th ward in 2009 to over 50 processes in a dozen cities in 2015. Over this period, scholars, practitioners, and advocates have made two distinct but related claims about its impacts: that it can revitalize democracy and advance equity. In practice, however, achieving the latter has often proven challenging.

Cerca del 5 por ciento de la población es alérgica a algún medicamento, situación que se vuelve crítica para aquellos sujetos que necesitan de ellos para vivir. Es el caso de Magdalena González a quien el fármaco que la mantiene con vida, puede lastimarla. Ante esta situación un equipo del Hospital Clínico de la Universidad de Chile (HCUCH), realizó un inédito tratamiento para permitirle continuar con su medicación.

Los días 7, 8 y 9 de octubre se desarrollará en la sede Parque Forestal del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), la muestra enfocada en publicaciones editoriales realizadas en Chile.

En el Día Mundial del Docente, la académica del Departamento de Estudios Pedagógicos (DEP) Jacqueline Gysling

This piece is the final installment of a three-part series of posts from MyData 2016 – an international conference that focused on human-centric personal information management. The conference was co-hosted by the Open Knowledge Finland chapter of the Open Knowledge Network.