Essay by Stephane Lavertu in Public Administration Review: “Rapid advances in our ability to collect, analyze, and disseminate information are transforming public administration. This “big data” revolution presents opportunities for improving the management of public programs, but it also entails some risks.
Paper by Charles Kenny and Ben Crisman: “Governments buy about $9 trillion worth of goods and services a year, and their procurement policies are increasingly subject to international standards and institutional regulation including the WTO Plurilateral Agreement on Government Procurement, Open Government Partnership commitments and International Financial Institution procurement rules. These standards focus on transparency and open competition as key tools to improve outcomes.
Book edited by Svenja Falk, Andrea Römmele, Andrea and Michael Silverman: “This book focuses on the implementation of digital strategies in the public sectors in the US, Mexico, Brazil, India and Germany. The case studies presented examine different digital projects by looking at their impact as well as their alignment with their national governments’ digital strategies.
The 3D Additivist Cookbook
Launch Party & Panel
December 2, 2016
Printed Matter, New York
The Additivist Cookbook is published by the Institute of Network Cultures.
Printed Matter is pleased to host the launch of The 3D Additivist Cookbook, to coincide with its publication online and in 3D PDF format.
Dear students, Please be aware that the Documentation Centre of the Institute for Information Law will be closed on Thursday 24 November 2016.
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By Dhruv Somayajula[1] Introduction On 21st October 2016, multiple cyber-attacks on the Internet infrastructure company Dyn shut down web browsing across America and Europe for hours. Over 100,000 devices were reportedly connected via a malware botnet named Mirai for this attack. The attack was a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS), which is carried out […]
Springwise: “Following orders by the national government to improve the air quality of the New Delhi region by reducing air pollution, the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority created the Hawa Badlo app. Designed for citizens to report cases of air pollution, each complaint is sent to the appropriate official for resolution.
Dina Bass at BloombergTech: “Microsoft Corp. researchers want to give patients and doctors a new tool in the quest to find cancers earlier: web searches.
Foi lançado hoje o relatório Freedom on the Net 2016, a respeito da liberdade de usuários online ao redor do globo.
Imagine that you were almost twenty years old and you wanted to change the world by helping people who are somehow barred from enforcing their rights, what would you do?... MORE
Mark Kinver at BBC News: “Rothamsted Research, a leading agricultural research institution, is attempting to make data from long-term experiments available to all.
In partnership with a data consultancy, is it developing a method to make complex results accessible and useable.
The institution is a member of the Godan Initiative that aims to make data available to the scientific community.
In September, Godan called on the public to sign its global petition to open agricultural research data.
Bjarne Corydon, Vidhya Ganesan, and Martin Lundqvist at McKinsey: “By digitizing processes and making organizational changes, governments can enhance services, save money, and improve citizens’ quality of life.
Arend Hintze at The Conversation: “…We need to overcome the boundaries that define the four different types of artificial intelligence, the barriers that separate machines from us – and us from them.
Type I AI: Reactive machines
El Archivo Central Andrés Bello de la Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones fue parte del programa cultural de la FILSA 2016 con un taller abierto al público dedicado a las técnicas de restauración, el que realizaron también a estudiantes del Instituto Nacional en el marco del II Congreso Nacional de Educación y Patrimonio.Poniéndose el guante de látex fue que los cerca de 20 asistentes a la “Clínica del Libro” iniciaron este taller que se realizó este jueves 27 de octubre a las 12:30 hrs. en la Feria Internacional del Libro de Santiago.
Que existan al menos dos vías de ingreso especial para personas en situación de discapacidad, que las facultades tengan sistemas de apoyo pertinentes y efectivos y que se adapten los sistemas de comunicación para un acceso universal, son parte de los resultados del informe "Inclusión de Estudiantes en Situación de Discapacidad en la U. de Chile: un compromiso con la equidad".
El doctor Guillermo Zepeda, pediatra, magíster en Educación en Ciencias de la Salud y profesor asistente del Departamento de Pediatría y Cirugía Infantil Norte de la Facultad de Medicina, viajó en septiembre pasado a Londres para asistir al congreso anual de esta sociedad y rendir el examen especial para la certificación.Junto a médicos provenientes de muchos países del mundo, el doctor Zepeda rindió la prueba de esta asociación, cuyo objetivo es certificar las competencias indispensables en la disciplina para poder ejercer en ese continente, ya sea en el c
Entre el 7 y 11 de noviembre se realizará la segunda versión de este cónclave científico en el que se abordarán ámbitos del quehacer científico que van desde la astronomía, biología, matemáticas aplicadas, ecología, ciencias sociales, acuicultura, minería y metalurgia, sismología y desastres naturales, entre otros.Más de 200 científicos de las principales universidades de Chile y Japón participarán en el encuentro Chile-Japan Academic Forum 2016, segunda versión de este encuentro bianual organizado por la Universidad de Chile, la Universida
El pilotaje de nuevos ítemes de evaluación en las pruebas y las asesorías de expertos de diferentes partes del mundo, son parte de las novedades que abordó el DEMRE en su seminario "Nuevos desafíos en la admisión a la Educación Superior".Más de 280 asistentes convocó el seminario organizado por el Departamento de Evaluación, Medición y Registro Educacional (DEMRE) en el marco de su vigésimo aniversario.
An Edge Conversation With David Rand: “…If you think about the puzzle of cooperation being “why should I incur a personal cost of time or money or effort in order to do something that’s going to benefit other people and not me?” the general answer is that if you can create future consequences for present behavior, that can create an incentive to cooperate.
Atividade integra disciplina History of Law and Society in Lat.AmericaUma aula de história política e social do Rio de Janeiro a céu aberto. O professor da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da FGV (Direito Rio), Pedro Jimenez Cantisano, levou os alunos do curso History of Law and Society in Latin America para um tour histórico no centro do Rio.