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A report on OpenROV conducted in the context of the Open Design & Manufacturing project.

Where did things go wrong on the way to modern life, and what should we do instead? This question always seems to lurk in the background of our fascination with many indigenous cultures. The modern world of global commerce, technologies and countless things has not delivered on the leisure and personal satisfaction once promised.  Which may be why we moderns continue to look with fascination at those cultures that have persisted over millennia, who thrive on a different sense of time, connection with the Earth, and social relatedness.

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This is a live blog account from the Data For Equity: The Power of Data to Promote Justice event.
 

La exhibición, que se realiza en el contexto de la conmemoración de los 25 años de trayectoria de Balmaceda Arte Joven, estará abierta al público desde el 13 de septiembre al 5 de noviembre de este año.

El reconocimiento, dirigido a ex estudiantes ejecutados y detenidos desaparecidos por agentes del Estado, se inscribe en una serie de iniciativas que ha realizado la comunidad universitaria, como la desclasificación de los sumarios de la dictadura, y fue anunciado en el marco del acto conmemorativo de los 44 años del golpe de Estado.

Profesionales y académicos de reconocida experiencia en contingencia y desastres naturales, se dieron cita en el marco de la presentación de los aportes científicos que ha realizado dicho Programa de nuestro plantel en los últimos años, particularmente en su colaboración con expertos del Ministerio de Obras Públicas.

Encontrar las marcas, escritos y materiales que dejan los lectores en los textos y tensionar el concepto de lo que es un libro, son parte de los objetivos de esta iniciativa que encabezan los investigadores Ariadna Biotti y Tomás Cornejo en el Archivo Central Andrés Bello.

La obra, inspirada en los volcanes de Chile y la energía de la Tierra, es una colaboración entre Metro de Santiago y el Centro de Excelencia en Geotermia de Los Andes (CEGA) de la Universidad de Chile que tiene como objetivo intervenir con arte y ciencia una de las zonas donde se construye la nueva Línea 3 del tren subterráneo.

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The Berkman Klein Center summer internship program is a cohesive, integrated experience that brings together students from around the world to work closely with faculty, staff, and fellows on a wide range of projects and initiatives related to the internet and society. 

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Paper by Daniel P. Scarnecchia, Nathaniel A. Raymond, Faine Greenwood, Caitlin Howarth an

Briefing by the European Parliamentary Research Service: “This briefing recognises the role of cross-border and cross-sector use of electronic identification (eID) and trust services in advancing the digitisation of public services in Europe as well as the potential impact of the implementation of the ‘once-only’ principle in public administrations.

This article was also published at this link on medium.com.

On September 19, 2017, Data2X, an initiative of the UN Foundation that works with a variety of cross-sector partners to close gender data gaps, announced the winners of its Big Data for Gender Challenge Awards.

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Johan Farkas and Christina Neumayer in First Monday: “This research examines how activists mobilise against fake hate profiles on Facebook. Based on six months of participant observation, this paper demonstrates how Danish Facebook users organised to combat fictitious Muslim profiles that spurred hatred against ethnic minorities. Crowdsourced action by Facebook users is insufficient as a form of sustainable resistance against fake hate profiles.

Chapter byYair Cohen in Maximizing Social Science Research Through Publicly Accessible Data Sets, book edited by S. Marshall Perry: “The United States federal government agencies as well as states agencies are liberating their data through web portals.

Akemi TakeokaChatfield and Christopher G.Reddick at Government Information Quarterly: “While citizens previously took a back seat to government, citizen coproduction of disaster risk communications through social m