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Siete razones por las que la Universidad de Chile es la primera

La Casa de Bello es la primera y principal institución de educación superior del país, impartiendo docencia en todas las áreas del conocimiento, liderando la investigación para la creación de más y mejores políticas públicas, y difundiendo el saber que genera a través de una potente política de extensión. En sus 175 años de historia, la Casa de Bello ha estado al servicio del desarrollo del país, formando los principales líderes y profesionales para Chile.
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Entregan terrenos de la Universidad de Aysén

La Presidenta Michelle Bachelet firmó este miércoles en Coyhaique la transferencia de un terreno de casi 23 hectáreas en donde se construirá el futuro campus universitario del nuevo plantel estatal, con la ejecución de un ante-proyecto diseñado por estudiantes y académicos de la U.

Un-Nintendo Consequences: Protect Your Devices from Attacking Gaming Networks

This holiday season, we published a buying guide for “smart toys,” as well as steps you could take to secure them once they were home. As we start the new year, it’s a good time to revisit Holiday DDoS Attacks: Targeting Gamers (Plus Five Things You Can Do).

In Search of the Good Ordinary Wine and the Good Ordinary Household

The following article, written by Patrick Noble and published in Feasta’s website is a very good summary of the ecological indictment of our current societies, I highly recommend it.
Patrick Noble: What spoils economies?
Firstly, their size – do they exceed the limits of their ecological supply. That is – is the mass and diversity of an economic terrain maintained? Does the economy cycle within its terrestrial limits?

Turn Failed Sustainability Startups Into Fertile Soil (Humus) For New Ones – By Making Them Open Source

I have this idea for a while now and after my first interaction with the sustainability startup accelerator Climate KIC in Milan yesterday I decided to use the time on the train back to Berlin to finally share it. It starts with the question: How to make quicker progress with sustainability in the world of Startups? Here is an answer:

From net neutrality to IBC & Aadhaar, how Vidhi is framing key government legislation

It's not every day that a 30-something former Oxford academic disrupts the plans of the world's biggest disruptor.
The article by Surabhi Agarwal and Samanwaya Rautray was published in Economic Times on January 4, 2018.

Democratising the future: How do we build inclusive visions of the future?

Chun-Yin San at Nesta: “In 2011, Lord Martin Rees, the British Astronomer-Royal, launched a scathing critique on the UK Government’s long-term thinking capabilities. “It is depressing,” he argued, “that long-term global issues of energy, food, health and climate get trumped on the political agenda by the short term”.

Powering Community Participation in Planning for Indianapolis’ Future

Thomas Kingsley at the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP): “Thanks to IndyVitals – an award-winning online data tool – residents and organizations can actively contribute to continued planning to achieve Marion County’s vision for 2020.

Workshop: Nudging and Digital Platforms

Are digital platforms the new ‘iron cages’ of society? Will Big-Data-based nudging lead us into a technocratic future of cyber-social control? Is China’s Social Credit System but the forerunner of... MORE
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Com chancela da União Europeia, FGV seleciona para nova edição da Cátedra Jean Monnet

O curso é gratuito e as inscrições devem ser feitas até 22 de janeiroA Cátedra Jean Monnet da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro (FGV Direito Rio) recebe inscrições para a próxima edição do curso de Regionalismo Comparado. Essa edição terá como convidados professores de renome nacional e internacional, em especial, da Universidade Livre de Bruxelas (Bélgica), Anne Weyembergh e Ramona Coman.

Finalizó la presentación de informes de autoevaluación

Con las exposiciones de la comisión Proyección de la Universidad del Senado Universitario, la comisión redactora Vinculación con el Medio de la Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones, y el informe ¿Qué nos hace diferentes?

U. de Chile inauguró Campo Deportivo Juan Gómez Millas

El Rector Ennio Vivaldi y el ministro del Deporte, Pablo Squella, lideraron este 19 de diciembre la inauguración del Campo Deportivo JGM, complejo que cuenta con una infraestructura de punta, adaptada para personas con discapacidad física y ceguera, y que será sede de los Juegos Panamericanos 2023. En la oportunidad, además, las autoridades firmaron un convenio de colaboración con el fin de contribuir al desarrollo y fomento de la actividad física en el país.

Inauguran memorial que recuerda a desaparecidos y ejecutados

Una escultura y una placa ubicadas en el SEMDA Central son el testimonio de las y los estudiantes, académicos y funcionarios de las carreras de la salud que fueron ejecutados o hechos desaparecer por razones políticas durante la dictadura civil-militar, liderada por Augusto Pinochet a partir de 1973.

FEN lanzó libros que reúne experiencias de innovación en educación

El Centro de Enseñanza y Aprendizaje de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios (FEN) junto a Laspau, institución afiliada a Harvard University, lanzaron la serie publicaciones "Innovando en la educación superior: experiencias claves en américa latina 2016-2017", textos que reúnen más de 50 casos relevantes al respecto de Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Panamá, Perú y Uruguay. Los volúmenes se encuentran disponibles en línea para todo público.

Postulantes podrán acceder a ayuda a distancia

1 de cada 4 estudiantes que ingresaron a la U. de Chile en 2017 proviene desde regiones, y pensando especialmente en ellos el servicio "Futuro Mechón", que orienta e informa a los futuros postulantes sobre los detalles del acceso a la educación superior, carreras y vida universitaria -no sólo de la Casa de Bello-, funcionará en esta "Semana del Postulante" que se realizará entre el 26 y 29 de diciembre, en horario extendido entre las 9 y 24 hrs.

Patterns of Commoning: Otelo – Open Technology Labs in Austria

Hannelore Hollinetz and Martin Hollinetz: The development of the Otelos – the international network of open technology labs – is the story of a group bringing together creative people in rural areas and forging a new culture of innovation with them. The idea for Otelos began in 2009 as Martin Hollinetz, then Director of Regional Management in the Upper Austrian districts of Vöcklabruck and Gmunden, contemplated with dismay the regional development strategies of the EU, the Austrian federal government, and the Austrian states.

Essay of the day: Municipalism in Spain; from Barcelona to Madrid, and beyond

Bitcoin, blockchain and the fight against poverty

Gillian Tett at the Financial Times: “…This month, Hernando de Soto, an acclaimed development economist from Peru, joined forces with Patrick Byrne, a controversial American luminary of the bitcoin and blockchain ecosystem, to launch an unusual project to fight poverty.

Liberal Democracy and the Unraveling of the Enlightenment Project

James Davison Hunter in The Hedgehog Review: “…while institutions tend to be stable and enduring, even as they evolve, no institution is permanent or indefinitely fixable. The question now is whether contemporary American democracy can even be fixed. What if the political problems we are rightly worried about are actually symptoms of a deeper problem for which there is no easy or obvious remedy?

A Guide to Chicago’s Array of Things Initiative

Sean Thornton at Data-Smart City Solutions: “The 606, Chicago’s rails-to-trails project that stretches for 4.2 miles on the city’s northwest side, has been popular with residents and visitors ever since its launch last year.  The trail recently added a new art inst