Una preparación de al menos seis meses, con un entrenamiento que incluye además de una rutina física en el gimnasio, entre 60 a 70 kilómetros de trote a la semana y una buena nutrición, son parte de las acciones fundamentales para sortear con éxito los 42 kilómetros de una maratón.
Entre el 28 de marzo y el 2 de abril se desarrollará en distintos puntos de la capital este evento cinematográfico que busca proponer una mirada analítica y crítica en la producción audiovisual y en los temas del debate contemporáneo. La U. de Chile es nuevamente patrocinadora de este encuentro cuyas actividades son totalmente gratuitas.La Casa Central de la U.
Inscrições vão até 21 de abrilA Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da FGV (Direito Rio) recebe inscrições para a segunda edição de seu Curso de Inverno, programa de uma semana voltado para alunos de Direito de todo o Brasil. A iniciativa oferecerá aos participantes a oportunidade de debater com alguns dos principais professores da Escola; entre eles, Joaquim Falcão (jurista e diretor da Direito Rio), Silvana Batini (Procuradora Regional da República) e Nelson Eizirik (ex-diretor da CVM).
Philip Boucher at EuroScientist: “…The way blockchains create fast, cheap and secure public records means that they also can be used for many non-financial tasks, such as casting votes in elections or proving that a document existed at a specific time. Blockchains are particularly well suited to situations where it is necessary to record ownership histories.
Paper by Paolo Parigi, Jessica J. Santana and Karen S.
Book edited by Betina Hollstein, Wenzel Matiaske and Kai-Uwe Schnapp: “This edited volume seeks to explore established as well as emergent forms of governance by combining social network analysis and governance research. In doing so, contributions take into account the increasingly complex forms which governance faces, consisting of different types of actors (e.g. individuals, states, economic entities, NGOs, IGOs), instruments (e.g.
Michael Thomas at FastCompany: “…“In the refugee camps, we have two things: people and time,” Jackl explained. He and his friends decided that they would organize people to improve the camp. The idea was to solve two problems at once: Give refugees purpose, and make life in the camp better for everyone….
Open Knowledge International is working on the Frictionless Data project to remove the friction in working with data. We are doing this by developing a set of tools, standards, and best practices for publishing data.
This blog is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2017. On Saturday 4 March, groups from around the world organised over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.
At the beginning of march the regional conference of the Initiative Mittelstand 4.0 with a focus on craft businesses took place in Munich. Craft businesses are an important component for the... MORE
In September last year, the Delhi High Court had upheld WhatsApp’s updated privacy policy, which allows it to share users’ personal information with its parent company, Facebook. Aggrieved by the Court’s decision, the petitioners approached the Supreme Court earlier this year. On 6th February, the Supreme Court had fixed 12th May as the date for […]
El músico letón radicado en Chile interpretará el Concierto para piano y orquesta del compositor noruego Edvard Grieg.
Un equipo interdisciplinario realizó el diagnóstico y diseñó un plan para afrontar de mejor manera el proceso de restauración del Santuario de la Naturaleza Quebrada de la Plata, ubicado en la Estación Experimental Germán Greve Silva, perteneciente a la Universidad de Chile y administrada por la Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, donde se realiza investigación, formación y extensión.
Pracownia Otwierania Kultury to inicjatywa Centrum Cyfrowego, która gromadzi przedstawicieli instytucji kultury, badaczy społecznych, projektantów, programistów i użytkowników.
Pracownia Otwierania Kultury to inicjatywa Centrum Cyfrowego, która gromadzi przedstawicieli instytucji kultury, badaczy społecznych, projektantów, programistów i użytkowników.
Announcement by Heather Piwowar and Jason Priem: “Today we’re launching a new tool to help people read research literature, instead of getting stuck behind paywalls. It’s an extension for Chrome and Firefox that links you to free full-text as you browse research articles. Hit a paywall? No problem: click the green tab and read it free!
Report by Niels Keijzer and Stephan Klingebiel for Paris21: “An ever-deepening data revolution is shaping everyday lives in many parts of the world. As just one of many mindboggling statistics on Big Data, it has been estimated that by the year 2020, about 1.7 megabytes of new information will be created every second for every human being on the planet. The benefits of the data revolution extend to different groups of people, social movements, institutions and businesses.
Interview by David Bornstein at the New York Times: “Last year, the RAND Survey Research Group asked 3,037 Americans about their political preferences and found that the factor that best predicted support for Donald Trump wasn’t age, race, gender, income, educational attainment or attitudes toward Muslims or undocumented immigrants.
Isabell Stamm and Lina Eklund at LSE Impact Blog: “Social scientists are expanding the landscape of academic knowledge production by adopting online crowdsourcing techniques used by businesses to design, innovate, and produce. Researchers employ crowdsourcing for a number of tasks, such as taking pictures, writing text, recording stories, or digesting web-based data (tweets, posts, links, etc.).
This blog is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2017. On Saturday 4 March, groups from around the world organised over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.