Faculty of Communication Arts kindly invites faculty, staff, students, alumni along with general public to mourn the passing of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej and pay their respects on Monday 17 October 2016 at 15:39 hrs on ground floor of Building 1.
คณะนิเทศศาสตร์ขอเชิญคณาจารย์ เจ้าหน้าที่ นิสิต นิสิตเก่า และบุคคลทั่วไปร่วมพิธีถวายสักการะพระบรมฉายาลักษณ์พระบาทสมเด็จพระเจ้าอยู่หัวในบรมโกศ ในวันจันทร์ ที่ 17 ตุลาคม 2559 เวลา 15:39 น. ณ บริเวณด้านล่างอาคาร 1
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The Itoshima photos of mentally disabled artists (MUKA) will be presented again at the Itoshima Art Festival Japan 22 – 23 October and 29/30 October.
http://www.ito-artsfarm.com/
 

Book by Marian Adolf and Nico Stehr: “As we move through our modern world, the phenomenon we call knowledge is always involved.

Encuentros Autoconvocados, Temáticos Transversales, Gremiales y Institucionales Locales son las modalidades de participación en los que estudiantes, funcionarios y académicos podrán participar en el marco de este proceso de discusión mediante el cual la U. de Chile busca incidir en la Reforma que regirá el futuro de la Educación Superior en nuestro país.

You have failed us big time Mr Kejriwal, for your petty political gains you can become headlines for Pakistani press,” read a tweet on October 5 from @IndiaPostOffice, the official twitter handle of the Indian postal service.

The article by Danish Raza was published in the Hindustan Times on October 15, 2016. Nishant Shah was quoted.

Sumandro Chattopadhyay took part in three open data events in Madrid in the first week of October 2016.
OD4D Summit

Bamidele Adekunle at The Conversation Global: “As the movement of people across the world creates more multicultural societies, can trade help communities maintain their identity? This is the question at the heart of a concept known as “food sovereignty”.

Udbhav Tiwari attended attended Hakon 2016, a conference held between September 30 and October 2, 2016 at Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India,on behalf of CIS under the Hewlett Cyber Security Project.

Your research focuses on media concentration in general and the political economy of Chinese internet companies in particular. Describe the rise of Tencent, Alibaba, and Baidu in the last five years in terms of revenue, traffic and user numbers. How...

Thursday, October 27, 2016, 12:30-2pm @ The GovLab, 2 Metrotech Center, 9th Floor.  Please RSVP here.

VIII Colóquio de Estudos Empíricos 09h00 até 16h00O Evento: PROGRAMAÇÃO
9h às 9h15 | Abertura
Rodrigo Vianna - Vice-diretor Executivo da FGV Direito Rio
9h15 às 11h | 1ª sessão: O Desastre da Samarco/Mariana  
Reflexões sobre a dependência mineral em Mariana. Antônio J. M. Porto e Laura Meneghel dos Santos – Professor da FGV Direito Rio | Pesquisadora do CPDE/FGV Direito Rio.

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Paper by Acevedo, Sebastián; and Dassen, Nicolás for IDB: “Los cambios tecnológicos, económicos y sociales de los últimos años exigen gobiernos capaces de adaptarse a nuevos desafíos y a las crecientes demandas de la ciudadanía. En muchos países y en distintos niveles de gobierno, esto ha llevado a la creación de laboratorios de innovación, unidades cuyo objetivo es promover de diversos modos la innovación en el sector público.

O que é Cloud Computing?

“WIRED guest editor President Barack Obama discusses what he’d like to see technology solve in government with WIRED editor in chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito.”

Full Post: President Barack Obama on Fixing Government With Technology

United States Government Accountability Office: “Open innovation involves using various tools and approaches to harness the ideas, expertise, and resources of those outside an organization to address an issue or achieve specific goals. GAO found that federal agencies have frequently used five open innovation strategies to collaborate with citizens and external stakeholders, and encourage their participation in agency initiatives.

Paper by Christian Sandvig et al in Special Issue of the International Journal of Communication on Automation, Algorithms, and Politics: “Computer algorithms organize and select information across a wide range of applications and industries, from search results to social media. Abuses of power by Internet platforms have led to calls for algorithm transparency and regulation. Algorithms have a particularly problematic history of processing information about race.

Springwise: “Founded by a cyclist frustrated at the lack of local government action on enforcing bike safety, the Cars In Bike Lanes map geo-tags and time-stamps each contribution. New York City riders upload their photos, including a description of the cross streets where the incident occurred. License plate details are made visible, and users of the map can click to find out if a driver is a repeat offender.

Matthew Hodgson at TechCrunch: “…The original purpose of the web and internet, if you recall, was to build a common neural network which everyone can participate in equally for the betterment of humanity.Fortunately, there is an emerging movement to bring the web back to this vision and it even involves some of the key figures from the birth of the web.

Convoca in Peru: “…collaborative effort is the essence of Convoca. We are a team of journalists and programmers who work with professionals from different disciplines and generations to expose facts that are hidden by networks of power and affect the life of citizens. We bet on the work in partnership to publish findings of high impact from Peru, where the Amazon survives in almost 60% of the country, in the middle of oil exploitation, minerals and criminal activities such as logging, illegal mining and human trafficking.