Mike Bracken and Andrew Greenway for IADB: “Digital government is rapidly gathering momentum as an effective way for nations and regions to increase their administrative efficiency, develop resilience, and deliver simpler, clearer, and better services for their citizens and businesses. This report summarizes the conditions and context needed for government digital teams to succeed and be sustained across different administrations.
Inclusión, aseguramiento de la calidad e internacionalización fueron algunos de los temas que concentraron el debate de las reuniones del Senado y Consejo Universitario en las que fueron presentadas las conclusiones de la autoevaluación, iniciada en mayo del año pasado.
Investing in hacking IoT: A startup in Israel has raised $12.5 million in investments to help governments hack the Internet of Things and other technologies, Forbes reports. What could go wrong? Toka says it’ll provide spy tools for whatever device its clients require, with a special focus on the IoT.
Encontro reuniu especialistas em educaçãoNa última sexta-feira, dia 20 de julho, foi realizada a primeira reunião do Núcleo de Estudos Avançados em Federalismo e Regulação Educacional (NEAFRE), que contou com a participação de representantes do Ministério da Educação, Conselho Nacional de Educação (CNE), secretarias estaduais e municipais de ensino, além de especialistas na área e instituições com papel de relevo na formulação das políticas públicas do setor.
Reforma prawa autorskiego zniknęła ostatnio z mediów – czy to oznacza, że przestała być ważna i wszystko już wiadomo? Nic bardziej mylnego! Tematem zajmujemy się od prawie dwóch lat i będziemy się zajmować aż do końca procesu legislacyjnego w Unii Europejskiej – o którym teraz trochę cicho, bo trwają wakacje, również dla polityków.
We have a series of important announcements regarding our Open Knowledge International governance. With the organisation having been through significant developments over the past years, we are now at a point of stability, with good systems in place and great staff driving the mission. The current updates to our Board of Directors reflect the new energy and drive that will help us achieve the next steps in our journey.
“Re-imagining the left through an ecology of the commons: towards a post-capitalist commons transition” (Michel Bauwens and Jose Ramos) was recently published by the journal Global Discourse (Routledge, Taylor and Francis) as an exploratory proposal for a comprehensive commons transition movement and strategy that twines an ontology of human evolutionary forms with strategies for commoning. It is intended as a stepping stone discussion in the context of post-capitalist / commons transition.
Pani Haq Samti’s ‘People’s Campaign’ had the dual aim of mobilizing public opinion to oppose the privatisation of water supplies in the Indian state of Maharashtra, and securing the distribution and re-establishment of water as a right.
In Mumbai, the right to water in people’s settlements (known as slums) was revoked in 1996 when the Maharashtra Urban Development Department instructed all municipal corporations to stop water infrastructure being installed in them.
The P2P Lab is happy to announce the launch of
“The cultiMake project: Crowdsourcing open source agricultural solutions”,
celebrating the gathering of designers, makers and farmers who are adapting to the digitised world.
Where: Habibi.Works, Ioannina (Greece)
When: From Monday, July 30th to Friday, August 3rd.
Renee Sieber and Rachel Bloom at SocArXiv Papers: In many ways, a precondition to realizing the promise of open government data is the standardization of that data. Open data standards ensure interoperability, establish benchmarks in assessing whether governments achieve their goals in publishing open data, can better ensure accuracy of the data. Interoperability enables the use of off-the shelf software and can ease third party development of products that serves multiple locales.
Brian W. Head at Policy and Society: “Rittel and Webber boldly challenged the conventional assumption that ‘scientific’ approaches to social policy and planning provide the most reliable guidance for practitioners and researchers who are addressing complex, and contested, social problems.
Paper by Kristen Eichensehr: “U.S. technology companies are increasingly standing as competing power centers that challenge the primacy of governments. This power brings with it the capacity to bolster or undermine governmental authority, as well as increasing public demands for the companies to protect users from governments. The companies’ power raises serious questions about how to understand their role.
About: “The Data Transfer Project was formed in 2017 to create an open-source, service-to-service data portability platform so that all individuals across the web could easily move their data between online service providers whenever they want.
If we don’t quickly create a new economy that isn’t based on constant expansion, we’re going to run out of planet.
Playing for Team Human today, recorded live on the floor at the Personal Democracy Forum 2018, are Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff. Moira and Ben will be showing us how the tech industry’s promise to build less harmful products and programs is just capitalism’s way of proving that love means never having to say, “I’m sorry.”
Youth and privacy in the Americas: Datos Protegidos, Chile How do youth allies promote young people’s critical thinking on privacy, in informal learning contexts in the Americas? This blog post is part of a series showcasing the work of different organizations at the intersection of youth development, digital rights, and online safety. Quick facts Who: Jessica Matus from Datos Protegidos What: Research, workshops, litigation Mission/vision: To promote, defend and educate about the right to privacy […]
El profesor Kukuljan, reelecto el pasado 5 de junio, agradeció a la comunidad de la Facultad de Medicina y señaló que la articulación de ésta será uno de los elementos fundamentales de su nuevo periodo. Con la presencia del ministro de Salud Emilio Santelices y el alcalde de Cerro Navia, Mauro Tamayo, se realizó este viernes 06 de julio la ceremonia de asunción del decano Manuel Kukuljan, correspondiente a su segundo periodo a la cabeza de la Facultad de Medicina.