Book edited by Carlos E. Jiménez-Gómez and Mila Gascó-Hernández: “Open government initiatives have become a defining goal for public administrators around the world. However, progress is still necessary outside of the executive and legislative sectors.
We are excited to share that over the summer we teamed up with Humanitas360 and the University of São Paulo’s CoLab for Development and Participation (CoLab) to launch a second pilot phase of Promise Tracker in Brazil. Throughout the remainder of 2016 we'll be working with a range of civil society partners to develop case studies on the use of Promise Tracker in different cities and explore new methodologies for assessing impact.
Blog by Dan Chenok and Haynes Cooney initially posted here : “When a new Administration takes office in January 2017, a new set of leaders will drive the nation’s innovation agenda.
Kurt Kohlstedt at 99 percent invisible: “Late for work in Manhattan, you push the crosswalk button and curse silently at the slowness of the signal change. You finally get a green light, cross the street, arrive at the office, get in the elevator and hit the close door (>|<) button to speed things along.
White House: “Today the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is releasing an update to the Federal Government’s governing document for the management of Federal information resources: Circular A-130, Managing Information as a Strategic Resource.
John Brownlee at Fast Co-Design: “If Wikipedia’s mission is to embody the universe of human knowledge in one freely accessible, crowdsourced encyclopedia, Wikiverse is that universe.
Este miércoles 17 de agosto, un grupo de autoridades universitarias de nuestro plantel, encabezada por el Rector Ennio Vivaldi, se reunió con el rector de la Universidad de Génova, profesor Paolo Comanducci, con quien trazaron líneas para avanzar en un convenio marco de colaboración, que incluiría en primera instancia un acuerdo específico con la Facultad de Derecho. La posibilidad de implementar un programa de doble titulación entre las facultades de Derecho de ambos planteles, fue uno de los temas conversados durante la reunión.
Con la asistencia de los representantes de las universidades estatales, agrupadas en el Cuech, se realizó el V Encuentro de la Red de Formación Continua que se realizó en la Universidad de Los Lagos en Osorno, instancia donde se sentaron las bases de esta iniciativa pionera en su tipo cuyos cursos iniciales estarán enfocados en las actuales reformas al sistema educativo.“Queremos revitalizar la educación pública, fortalecerla y generar acciones conjuntas entre las universidades del Estado, formar una nueva relación entre ellas en colaboración, que tiene que ver con el inter
"Patipelaos" es el nombre de la intervención que la destacada artista nacional realizará en el mismo edificio donde se realizó el multitudinario sepelio de la Premio Nobel en enero del año 1957, específicamente, en la Sala Museo que la Casa Central posee en honor a Mistral.
A más de un siglo del pacto que Argentina, Brasil y Chile firmaron en 1915, el académico del Instituto de Estudios Internacionales (IEI) de la Universidad de Chile, Gilberto Aranda, y el director del Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Militares del Ejército (CESIM), Coronel Mario Quinteros, analizaron las perspectivas históricas de cooperación e integración regional en el marco del lanzamiento del libro "A 100 años del ABC: desafíos y proyecciones en el marco de la integración regional", editado por ambas instituciones.El 25 de mayo de 1915 Chile, Brasil y Argentina firma
Audrey Grez, profesora de la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Pecuarias, es la primera mujer que recibirá el Premio a la Trayectoria en Ecología "Patricio Sánchez Reyes" por su contribución al desarrollo de la disciplina y sus aportes a esta sociedad científica. "Ser la primera mujer que recibe esta distinción es un hito importante y creo que voy a ser la primera de muchas porque cada vez hay más mujeres que se están incorporando a la Sociedad y al quehacer científico", afirmó la académica.
Haters gonna hate? Digital civil courage and strategies against hate speach – these are the topics of the upcoming #DigSal on 31 August. What’s the fine line of freedom of speech and hatred in the internet. Come and... MORE
Nirmita Narasimhan is a speaker at this conclave organized by IIMA in collaboration with Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India.
Download the brochure of the event here.
For more details visit http://cis-india.org/accessibility/news/universal-design-accessibility-conclave
Date published: August 26, 2016"“It is perfectly legal to do so,” said Albert Gidari, director of privacy at the Center for Internet & Society at Stanford Law School.
“That you may betray your friends' privacy in doing so is a matter of your ethics, not the site's," Gidari told ABC News. "Do people stop and think about this? Of course not!”"
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Andhra Jyothi, one of the leading news papers in Telugu covered Punjab edit-a-thon & Telugu wikipedia success in national level with the angle of Pranaraj involvement in it.
Here is the news clipping.
For more details visit http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/press-coverage-about-punjab-edit-a-thon-telugu-wikipedia-success
For the third consecutive year The GovLab is getting ready to participate in the Open Government Partnership Global Summit. This year’s OGP Summit will be held in Paris, France on December 7th-9th. The annual event’s international collection of representatives from across sectors will once again “gather to share their experiences and best practices and push forward the open government global agenda in light of the great challenges of the modern world.”
Max Hänska, Lecturer/Assistant Prof. at De Montfort Universitaet in Leicester, GB. His research topics are Social Media in political communication and grassroot journalism as well as the role of communication that questions decision making. As a visiting researcher at HIIG, Max Hänska is currently focussing on twitter discussions and the rise of an european political public sphere. Interview: Cornelius Puschmann.
Authorities in a south Karnataka district have started keeping tighter watch on rumour-mongering and hate messages on social media platforms ahead of religious festivals.
The article was published in the Telegraph on August 26, 2016. Sunil Abraham was quoted.