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.
Cerca de 700 personas llegaron al Parque Vicuña Mackenna de Arica para ser parte de la clausura de esta tercera versión de la Escuela de Temporada en regiones. Con el Morro de fondo, autoridades regionales, locales y universitarias compartieron palabras de reconocimiento al trabajo desplegado, y ariqueños y ariqueñas disfrutaron de presentaciones artísticas que sellaron una semana de trabajo en conjunto entre la U. de Chile, la U. de Tarapacá y la Dirección Regional del Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes de Arica y Parinacota.
Una cumbre de música en vivo organizada por la Federación de Estudiantes de la Casa de Bello en las puertas de la FECh, la recolección de dinero, víveres y otros utensilios para cubrir las necesidades de los bomberos y la población civil, la realización de trabajos voluntarios de emergencia, el despliegue de académicos y estudiantes a la zona afectada y la coordinación de miembros de nuestro plantel con el Ministerio de Agricultura con el fin de planificar la recuperación de los suelos, son parte de las iniciativas que los tres estamentos de la comunidad universitaria llevan adelant
Digital Asia Hub and the United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society (UNU-CS) held a new networking initiative. Digital Asia Hub and the United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society co-hosted a series of events aimed at fostering engagement and knowledge sharing at the intersection of technology, society, law, policy and international development.
CIS shared its insights on the Pervasive Technologies project.
Tom Cheshire at SkyNews: “On a beach in Kent, Peter Koehler and Ellie Mackay are teaching a drone how to see.
Rania Fakhoury at the Conversation: “Privacy is no longer a social norm, said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in 2010, as social media took a leap to bring more private information into the public domain.
Evento marca lançamento de projeto sobre Plano Nacional AnticorrupçãoA Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro, em parceria com o governo britânico e o Ministério da Justiça e Segurança Pública, realiza, nos dias 21 e 22 de março, o “Seminário Internacional Brasil – Reino Unido – Combate à Corrupção: Novos Estudos e Tecnologias”. O evento acontecerá no auditório do Ministério da Justiça e Segurança Pública, em Brasília.
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.
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.
“Seeing Theory is a project designed and created by Daniel Kunin with support from Brown University’s Royce Fellowship Program. The goal of the project is to make statistics more accessible to a wider range of students through interactive visualizations.
Tim Hartford: “…In 1995, Robert Proctor, a historian at Stanford University who has studied the tobacco case closely, coined the word “agnotology”. This is the study of how ignorance is deliberately produced; the entire field was started by Proctor’s observation of the tobacco industry. The facts about smoking — indisputable facts, from unquestionable sources — did not carry the day. The indisputable facts were disputed. The unquestionable sources were questioned.
Neil Irwin in the New York Times: “Another academic discipline may not have the ear of presidents but may actually do a better job of explaining what has gone wrong in large swaths of the United States and other advanced nations in recent years.
Novel by Willemijn Dicke and Dirk Helbing: “iGod is a science fiction novel with heroes, love, defeat and hope. But it is much more than that. This book aims to explore how societies may develop, given the technologies that we see at present. As Dirk Helbing describes it in his introduction:
Julia Powles and Hal Hodson in Health and Technology: “Data-driven tools and techniques, particularly machine learning methods that underpin artificial intelligence, offer promise in improving healthcare systems and services. One of the companies aspiring to pioneer these advances is DeepMind Technologies Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Google conglomerate, Alphabet Inc.