15th September 2017
Simon Beard has a feature in the upcoming October 2017 edition of the BBC History Magazine on historical cases in which humanity narrowly avoided a global catastrophe, mainly due to nuclear war.
He also wrote a blog post for our parent organisation, CRAASH – Less Hollywood, More Car Crash: Putting the USA vs. DPRK nuclear stand-off into historical perspective.
Final Report by the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking: “…There are many barriers to the efective use of government data to generate evidence. Better access to these data holds the potential for substantial gains for society. The Commission’s recommendations recognize that the country’s laws and practices are not currently optimized to support the use of data for evidence building, nor in a manner that best protects privacy.
New paper by Cass R. Sunstein: “Some people believe that nudges are an insult to human agency; that nudges are based on excessive trust in government; that nudges are covert; that nudges are manipulative; that nudges exploit behavioral biases; that nudges depend on a belief that human beings are irrational; and that nudges work only at the margins and cannot accomplish much.
New report by Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter: “Many Americans are disgusted and concerned about the dysfunction and abysmal results from Washington, D.C., and so are we. However, this paper is not about adding to the depressing national dialog about politics, but about how to change the system by taking action that will work.
A Primer on the Proposed U.S.-U.K. Agreement
Teaser
A brief primer on how cross-border data access requests currently work, options for reform, and major challenges to reform ahead
Publication Date
13 Sep 2017
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This is a liveblog of a talk by Emily Jacobi (@emjacobi) at the MIT Center for Civic Media, written by Erhardt Graeff, Rahul Bhargava, and Alexis Hope. All errors are our own.
La Universidad de Chile, encabezada por su Rector y representada en el Comité de Coordinación Institucional, instancia que reúne a sus máximos organismos, ven con profunda preocupación que el proyecto de Ley de Universidades del Estado, presentado por el Gobierno ante la Cámara de Diputados, no expresa una voluntad clara de fortalecer a las universidades estatales, mediante condiciones de gobernanza, régimen del personal y financiamiento recurrente y progresivo.
A fines de septiembre, familias de las regiones de Tarapacá, Coquimbo, O'Higgins y Los Lagos postularán a cupos para sus hijos en colegios públicos y subvencionados utilizando el nuevo Sistema de Admisión Escolar, aplicado en Magallanes en 2016. Esta herramienta fue confeccionada por investigadores del Núcleo Milenio Información y Coordinación en Redes (ICR) y el Instituto para la Investigación de Imperfecciones de Mercado y Políticas Públicas (MIPP), alojados en la U. de Chile, junto al Ministerio de Educación.
La Universidad de Chile se enorgullece en saludar al Premio Nacional de Literatura 1969, Nicanor Parra, quien este 5 de septiembre cumplió 103 años. Con una vida ligada a la educación superior pública y estatal, se tituló en el Instituto Pedagógico de la U.
Das Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft (HIIG) sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine/n engagierte/n Projektmanager/in im Bereich Veranstaltungen & Wissenstransfer Ob wissenschaftliche Veranstaltungen wie die internationale Konferenz AoIR... MORE
The first season of Deep Dives - Sexing the Interwebs won the South Asian Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity 2017 in the “Best web series" /"Special edition” category. Rohini Lakshané was one of ten contributors to the series of long form essays on the intersection of gender, sexuality and the Internet.
Chapter by Gernot Rieder and Judith Simon in Berechenbarkeit der Welt?: “The paper investigates the rise of Big Data in contemporary society. It examines the most prominent epistemological claims made by Big Data proponents, calls attention to the potential socio-political consequences of blind data trust, and proposes a possible way forward.
Joan Subirats at Open Democracy: “Can we keep on organizing decision-making processes as we used to do in the age of the Enlightenment or in a scenario where information only flows from top to bottom? Designers and creators have been questioning this for a long time now, seeking to go beyond the user paradigm which has determined innovation processes in recent decades. Today, their concern is how to put people at the center of new experiences…..
Energy is fundamental to any development. The National Electricity Company of Burkina Faso (SONABEL) whose task is the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity in the Burkinabè population, works hard to enable citizens to benefit from this as an important resource. However, it is clear that SONABEL hardly fulfills this mission: hardly a day goes by without a power failure in Ouagadougou. After multiple complaints, which can be found on social networks, citizens have ended up resigning and passively endure the cuts.
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United States
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Author(s): Sonia KatyalPublication Date: September 14, 2017Publication Type: Other Writing
Before the elections in Germany different voting advice applications appeared . Many of those online tools are purely informative, other tools like the Wahl-o-mat show the user’s political proximity to... MORE