The Internet Society today announced that it has opened a new regional bureau in the Middle East and appointed Salam Yamout to the role of Regional Director. Ms. Yamout brings over 25 years of experience to her new role, where she will be responsible for building awareness of the Internet Society and advancing its mission...
Open Knowledge International is coordinating the Open Data for Tax Justice project in partnership with the Tax Justice Network to create a global network of people and organisations using open data to inform local and global efforts around tax justice.
Tax evasion, corruption and illicit financial flows rob countries around the world of billions in revenue which could be spent on improving life for citizens.
Hace poco más de tres meses la expedición Tara Pacific zarpó del puerto de Lorient en Francia, iniciando un recorrido que durará dos años recolectando muestras de los arrecifes coralinos del Pacífico, con el objetivo de estudiar el cambio climático. Chile es una las estaciones donde el barco recaló, y nuestra Universidad una de las instituciones en alianza para los futuros estudios a realizarse con la información que recolectará la goleta. Este viernes 9 de septiembre, Eric Karsenti, director científico de Tara Oceans, visitó la U.
Autoridades universitarias, estudiantes y funcionarios se reunieron este lunes 12 de septiembre junto a destacados poetas nacionales -dos de ellos Premios Nacionales de Literatura-, quienes con sus versos recordaron los 43 años del golpe cívico militar, que derrocó al gobierno de Salvador Allende e inició una dictadura de 17 años en nuestro país. "11 poetas x el 11" fue el nombre de la actividad, organizada por la Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones en alianza con Radio Cooperativa que transmitió en vivo el evento.
La prevalencia de la esquizofrenia en Chile es de 1,4 a 4,6 personas por cada mil habitantes, con una incidencia de 12 casos nuevos por cada cien mil habitantes por año. En este contexto, el Dr. Pablo Gaspar, especialista de la Clínica Psiquiátrica del Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile (HCUCH) y jefe de la Unidad de Psicosis de dicha unidad, diseñó un innovador programa para detectar estados prodrómicos de la esquizofrenia.
The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) in collaboration with the Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET) is organising India’s first “Law Economics Policy Conference (LEPC-2016)”. The aim is to bring together legal, economic and policy thinkers to consider policy issues in a holistic manner.
Eight years after being created in the Wikimedia Incubator, the Tulu-language Wikipedia is now live as the 23rd Indic language.
The Tulu Wikipedia page is available here. The project has a total of 1285 articles contributed by 198 editors.
Other news in brief:
In this post they emphasize upon the need for data-driven IP policy making in India.
This blog post written by Prof Collen Chien and Prof Contreras, and published this week (September 19, 2016) on SpicyIP mentions CIS' patent landscaping study.
From mandatory disclosures to improving CERT-IN’s functioning and transparency, there is much to be done in the event of future cyber attacks.
The article by Sushil Kambampati was published in the Wire on September 21, 2016. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.
Essay by Adene Sacks & Heather McLeod Grant in SSIR: “In 2011, New York Times data scientist Jake Porway wrote a blog post lamenting the fact that most data scientists spend their days creating apps to help users find restaurants, TV shows, or parking spots, rather than addressing complicated social issues like helping identify which teens
Paper by Anthony Crossman and Dov Fischer: “In the recessionary years following the 2008 financial crisis, prominent voices predicted an imminent crisis in state and municipal finances. The voices – including Bill Gates, Josh Ruah, Meredith Whitney, Paul Volcker, and Richard Ravitch – declared or implied that the road to fiscal responsibility lies in reining in the pensions and benefits of public servants.
Edd Gent at E&T: “When the municipal authority in charge of Boston, Massachusetts, was looking for a smarter way to find which roads it needed to repair, it hit on the idea of crowdsourcing the data. The authority released a mobile app called Street Bump in 2011 that employed an elegantly simple idea: use a smartphone’s accelerometer to detect jolts as cars go over potholes and look up the location using the Global Positioning System.
“The mAgri Design Toolkit is a collection of instructions, tools, and stories to help develop and scale mobile agriculture products by applying a user-centered design approach.
“The Conversation, an independent news and commentary website produced by academics and journalists, launches its Global edition this month.
The Conversation Global will publish commentary, analysis and research from the academic community worldwide. We will engage scholars from across the world, featuring perspectives from the Global South and North on the most pressing international issues. All content will be published under Creative Commons.