Professor Sérgio Guerra vai participar do eventoO Vice-diretor de Ensino, Pesquisa e Pós-graduação da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro, Professor Sérgio Guerra, participa, no dia 8 de novembro, às 19h, do IV Colóquio Brasileiro de Direito da Regulação. O evento é organizado pela Advocacia Geral da União (AGU) e será realizado no salão nobre da UFRGS, em Porto Alegre (RS), contando com a participação de autoridades, acadêmicos e especialistas no assunto.

La lucha por una educación al servicio de las necesidades del país, por la profundización de la democracia, y el impulso de la cultura han sido rasgos permanentes en la extensa historia de la organización estudiantil. Fundada el 21 de octubre de 1906, en su trayectoria ha sufrido el saqueo de sus locales y el asesinato de sus dirigentes, ha sido ilegalizada, ha contribuido a la caída de dos dictaduras, ha organizado trabajos voluntarios y ha impulsado la lucha por la educación pública, gratuita y de calidad.

Desde 1996, cerca de 5 millones de personas en todo el país se han inscrito para rendir la prueba de selección universitaria. En el marco de la conmemoración de su vigésimo aniversario, el Departamento de Evaluación, Medición y Registro Educacional (DEMRE) abordará los cambios del sistema de admisión a la Educación Superior en Chile durante un seminario que se realizará el 25 y 26 de octubre.

Integrantes del Centro de Ciencia del Clima y la Resiliencia (CR)2 serán parte, por tercer año consecutivo, de esta conferencia anual que reúne a gobiernos, sociedad civil, científicos, entre otros actores sociales de distintos países del mundo.La ciudad de Marrakech será antitriona de la vigésimo segunda Conferencia de Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (COP22), que se realizará desde el 7 al 18 de noviembre con una asistencia esperada de 30 mil personas entre delegados gubernamentales, oficiales de Naciones Unidas, organizaciones d

Ricardo Hausmann at Project Syndicate: “Public-private cooperation or coordination is receiving considerable attention nowadays.

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Paper by Amy K. Glasmeier and Molly Nebiolo in Sustainability: “… explores the unique challenge of contemporary urban problems and the technologies that vendors have to solve them. An acknowledged gap exists between widely referenced technologies that city managers utilize to optimize scheduled operations and those that reflect the capability of spontaneity in search of nuance–laden solutions to problems related to the reflexivity of entire systems.

New report by the Institute for Government (UK): “Making a Success of Digital Government, says that after five years of getting more services online, government is hitting a wall. But despite some public services still running on last century’s computers, the real barrier to progress is not technology but the lack of political drive from the top.

Tony Scott at the White House: “Today we’re launching Code.gov so that our Nation can continue to unlock the tremendous potential of the Federal Government’s software.

Book by Nicholas A. John: “Sharing is central to how we live today: it is what we do online; it is a model of economic behavior; and it is also a type of therapeutic talk. Sharing embodies positive values such as empathy, communication, fairness, openness and equality. The Age of Sharing shows how and when sharing became caring, and explains how its meaningshave changed in the digital age.

FLAME University had invited Centre for Internet & Society to join a colloquium to delve into the opportunities and challenges of digital studies in India, with particular emphasis on pedagogy and the archive.
P.P. Sneha represented the Centre for Internet & Society in the event held at Pune on October 16, 2016. Asian Art Archive, Ashok Ranade Music Archive, National Film Archives of India, and National Museum also participated in the dialogue.

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Survey by Pew Global: “Signs of political discontent are increasingly common in many Western nations, with anti-establishment parties and candidates drawing significant attention and support across the European Union and in the United States.

Eric Gordon in Governing: “…But here’s the problem: The institutional language of engagement has been defined by its measurement. Chief engagement officers in corporations are measuring milliseconds on web pages, and clicks on ads, and not relations among people. This is disproportionately influencing the values of democracy and the responsibility of public institutions to protect them.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group – the company that had caught the attention of the global media with its historical IPO of $25 billion in 2014 – once again grabbed the headlines recently due to a standout $1 billion deal in April for a controlling stake of Lazada, an e-commerce company that operates across six countries in Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Encabezado por el Rector Vivaldi, el Comité de Coordinación Institucional reunirá a representantes del Senado Universitario, del Consejo Universitario y del Consejo de Evaluación. El espacio busca constituirse en una instancia transversal de trabajo colaborativo entre dichas entidades. Como un espacio de vinculación entre los órganos colegiados de la U.

Este programa, que inicia sus clases el 25 de octubre, invita a construir una experiencia personal, cotidiana y subjetiva respecto al arte en el espacio público, así como también revisar diferentes obras o procesos artísticos que se han relacionado con la ciudad como espacio de soporte, tanto en Chile como en el extranjero.Recorrer nuestro entorno en forma reflexiva, abordando las múltiples capas que constituyen la ciudad: desde el espacio donde se ejerce el poder de la historia a través de los monumentos y el lugar de la construcción de la memoria biográfica, hasta el espa

The extraordinary recent growth of the mobile internet across Asia and the Pacific carries the promise of a more inclusive digital economy, accessible to everyone with a cheap smartphone. A low-cost, mobile internet could reconfigure the provision of health and education, open new economic opportunities, and expand cultural, civic and political engagement. But as we know, this is not yet the internet that we have: great gaps remain in access and capability, and the benefits of connection are distributed very unevenly across physical and social space.

It took only weeks for Pokemon GO to become the world’s most viral mobile app of all time. Developed by Niantic Labs, and with over 550 million downloads in 80 days, the augmented reality (AR) game has mainstreamed and altered how handheld technology allows users to interact with their immediate surroundings.