Other News from Participating Centers

Maestra de la Orquesta de Cámara de Chile dirigirá a la Sinfónica

Alejandra Urrutia volverá a tomar la batuta en el Centro de Extensión Artística y Cultural (CEAC) en un programa que contará con las obras "Concierto para Arpa" de Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, "Vilama-La Muerte del Río", del compositor chileno Carlos Zamora, y la "Sinfonía N°9 'Desde el Nuevo Mundo'", de Antonín Dvorak. Tres interesantes obras son las que contempla el programa N°4 de la temporada 2016 de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile, denominado “Un nuevo espíritu”, que se presentará el viernes 15 y sábado 16 de abril a las 19:40 hrs.

2014 showed the power of Twitter, now every Indian politician wants a handle

Twitter is fast turning into an effective political tool. As political parties fight another round of electoral battles, a new survey on the 2014 general elections states that those who tweeted well, fared well.
The article by T.V. Jayan, Smitha Verma,Sonia Sarkar and V. Kumara Swamy quoted Sumandro Chattapadhyay. Click to read the original published by Telegraph on April 10.

PMO’s no to smart cards, insists on Aadhaar

The government has decided to stop issuing new smart cards to beneficiaries of government schemes as Aadhaar is now backed by a law.
The article by Somesh Jha was published in the Hindu on April 10, 2016. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

Tag monitors air pollution and never loses charge

Springwise: “The battle to clean up the air of major cities is well underway, with businesses and politicians pledging to help with the pollution issue. We have seen projects using mobile air sensors mounted on pigeons to bring the problem to public attention, and now a new crowdsourcing campaign is attempting to map the UK’s air pollution.

Giovanni Buttarelli, European Data Protection Supervisor

Subtitle

Ethics as the Root of Privacy and the Future of Data Protection

Teaser

On Tuesday, 19 April 2016, MIT’s Internet Policy Research Initiative (IPRI), MIT Media Lab and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University are proud to host the European Data Protection Supervisor, Giovanni Buttarelli for an intimate discussion about the changing landscape of data collection and usage, and the global impact it has on the individual.

Event Date

Matchmaking Algorithms Are Unraveling the Causes of Rare Genetic Diseases

Regan Penaluna at Nautilus: “Jill Viles, an Iowa mother, was born with a rare type of muscular dystrophy. The symptoms weren’t really noticeable until preschool, when she began to fall while walking. She saw doctors, but they couldn’t diagnose her or supply a remedy. When she left for college, she was 5-foot-3 and weighed just 87 pounds.

Copyright Law Year in Review

Subtitle

with Peter S. Menell, the Koret Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law and a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

Teaser

What ties together cheerleader outfits, monkey selfies, the Batmobile, a chicken sandwich, Yoga, and Yoda? Professor Peter Menell will provide an exhilarating copyright year in review.

Parent Event

Berkman Luncheon Series

Event Date

Apr
19
2016
12:00pm

NTU is ranked No.1 in Singapore and 32nd globally by Nature Index​​

...

More project case studies available

Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities on 19 April 2016 at 16:56PM We’re very pleased that all of the project case studies are now available to read online. We posted before about the first five case studies when we added them to our institutional repository. Now the other five have joined them. … Continue reading → [...]

Smart City and Smart Government: Synonymous or Complementary?

Paper by Leonidas G. Anthopoulos and Christopher G. Reddick: “Smart City is an emerging and multidisciplinary domain. It has been recently defined as innovation, not necessarily but mainly through information and communications technologies (ICT), which enhance urban life in terms of people, living, economy, mobility and governance. Smart government is also an emerging topic, which attracts increasing attention from scholars who work in public administration, political and information sciences.

En Washington DC, en tiempo de elecciones

En Washington DC, en tiempo de elecciones
Los alumnos del Máster en Comunicación Política y Corporativa realizaron una estancia profesional de cuatro semanas en la capital estadounidense

19/04/16 15:58
Ignacio Dávila

Emerging urban digital infomediaries and civic hacking in an era of big data and open data initiatives

Chapter by Thakuriah, P., Dirks, L., and Keita, Y. in Seeing Cities Through Big Data: Research Methods and Applications in Urban Informatics (forthcoming): “This paper assesses non-traditional urban digital infomediaries who are pushing the agenda of urban Big Data and Open Data. Our analysis identified a mix of private, public, non-profit and informal infomediaries, ranging from very large organizations to independent developers.

Six of the Government’s Best Mobile Apps

USA Gov: “There’s an app for everything in this digital age, including hundredsdeveloped by the federal government. Here are six apps that we foundespecially useful.

Big data privacy: the datafication of personal information

Jens-Erik Mai in The Information Society: “In the age of big data we need to think differently about privacy. We need to shift our thinking from definitions of privacy (characteristics of privacy) to models of privacy (how privacy works). Moreover, in addition to the existing models of privacy—surveillance model and capture model, we need to also consider a new model —the datafication model presented in this paper, wherein new personal information is deduced by employing predictive analytics on already-gathered data.

EU e-Government Action Plan 2016-2020. Accelerating the digital transformation of government

Q and A: “The e-Government Action Plan includes 20 initiatives to be launched in 2016 and 2017 (full list). Several of them aim to accelerate the implementation of existing legislation and related take-up of online public services. The Commission will notably support the transition of Member States towards full e-procurement, use of contract registers and interoperable e-signatures.

The first 100 customers: Tactics for customer acquisition

Customer acquisition is one of the biggest challenges that German or European Internet-enabled Startups face. The article discusses three factors (customers, competitors, ressources) to consider when deciding on sales and... MORE

Government has Failed to Understand the Cybercrime Phenomena

Quetta, Internet Policy Observatory Pakistan (iPOP) has claimed that passing of Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill 2015 will be detrimental for the growth and development of the internet in the country. Given the important role internet is set to play for economic development in Pakistan it is horrendous to see the despotic bill passed during presence of handful of parliamentarians in National Assembly.

Ana Hormaetxea profundiza en el mercado audiovisual con los alumnos del Máster en Guión

Ana Hormaetxea profundiza en el mercado audiovisual con los alumnos del Máster en Guión
Hormaetxea mostró a los futuros guionistas cómo se articula el mercado laboral en la industria audiovisual

19/04/16 13:59
Amaia Urra

Conferência Internacional sobre Conectividade Sustentável

Conferência Internacional sobre Conectividade Sustentável09h30 até 17h45O Evento: A internet é atualmente um instrumento essencial pelo desenvolvimento econômico, social e cultural de três bilhões de usuários. Todavia, a maioria dos usuários estão concentrados nos países mais desenvolvidos, e uma porcentagem superior a 60% da população dos países em desenvolvimentos ainda não está conectada.

ICANN and Human Rights

The topic of human rights on the Internet has been one of significant interest, right from finding mention in the WSIS Declaration of Principles in 2003, to the UN Human Rights Council’s First Resolution on Internet Free Speech, which declared that the rights available to people offline must also be protected online. These have subsequently […]