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Crime-prediction tool PredPol amplifies racially biased policing, study shows

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United States

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Workshop on Innovation, Economic Development and IP in India and China

Anubha Sinha and Rohini Lakshané presented at the SMU-JINDAL-RENMIN Workshop on “Innovation, Economic Development, and IP in India and China,” co-organised by the Singapore Management University, O.P. Jindal Global University, and Renmin University of China, in Delhi during September 27-28, 2016. Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog, delivered the inaugural address at the workshop.
 

Evaluating World Bank Support to Budget Analysis and Transparency

Report by Linnea Mills and Clay G. Wescott: “BOOST is a new resource launched in 2010 to facilitate improved quality, classification, and access to budget data and promote effective use for improved government decision making, transparency and accountability.

Privacy Laws Around the World

Bloomberg Law: “Development of international privacy laws and regulations with critical impact on the global economy been extremely active over the last several years.

Deepening Public Participation: Summary and Resources

Matt Leighninger at Public Agenda: “Whether dealing with an immediate challenge or building long-term infrastructure, participation skills are a valuable asset for anyone’s proverbial toolkit. In case you missed a post, we identified ten key talents (each with a set of specific skills) for public participation:

Gov2Vec: Learning Distributed Representations of Institutions and Their Legal Text

John J. Nay at arXiv.org:”We compare policy differences across institutions by embedding representations of the entire legal corpus of each institution and the vocabulary shared across all corpora into a continuous vector space. We apply our method, Gov2Vec, to Supreme Court opinions, Presidential actions, and official summaries of Congressional bills. The model discerns meaningful differences between government branches.

Fellowship 2017 – Apply now!

We invite applications from up and coming researchers pursuing transdisciplinary internet research. If you are seeking exchange regarding your research aspirations and think your objectives match or complement ours, we look... MORE

Académicos lanzarán centro para el estudio del envejecimiento

Cerca de 150 investigadores de las facultades de Ciencias, Medicina y Ciencias Sociales, trabajan en la instalación del nuevo centro "Gerociencia, Salud Mental y Metabolismo", iniciativa FONDAP que será oficialmente lanzada en diciembre. Además del estudio clínico y preclínico de la vejez, el centro aspira en esta primera etapa a realizar intervenciones en la población con el fin de propiciar un envejecimiento más saludable.

Appeals court restores previously-dismissed surveillance lawsuit

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United States

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Litígios de Internet: Eleição de Foro e denegação de justiça em contratos firmados na web

As normas de Direito Internacional Privado contém elementos que permitem estabelecer a jurisdição a qual uma determinada questão será submetida quando se estiver diante de uma disputa internacional. As partes envolvidas em uma relação jurídica, no entanto, podem modificar essas competências definidas em lei, elegendo os tribunais de um país distinto para solucionar a controvérsia entre elas. É o que se chama de eleição de foro.

“El buen lobbyista tiene que saber casar los intereses de las instituciones, del cliente y de la comunidad”

“El buen lobbyista tiene que saber casar los intereses de las instituciones, del cliente y de la comunidad”
Carmen Mateo, presidenta de Cariotipo MH5, impartió una sesión sobre su experiencia profesional en el Lobbying en el Máster en Comunicación Política y Corporativa

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Guillem Batchellí

India and Internet Governance: The Challenge of Multistakeholderism

The recent signing of the US-India Cyber framework capped off a landmark year in India’s digital diplomacy. In addition to bilateral agreements, India played an important role in negotiations at international fora like the Ten Year Review of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS+10 Review) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers […]

Trump apuesta al voto de los blancos y Clinton a atraer a los jóvenes

Tras el debate del 26 de septiembre, las elecciones presidenciales de Estados Unidos entran en su etapa final, a seis semanas de que se realice la votación que determinará quien será el 45º presidente o presidenta del país.

Profesores FEN lideran el ranking RePec en Sudamérica

Además, la unidad académica se posicionó como la facultad líder en el país en publicaciones económicas de alto impacto, índice basado en las citas que otros economistas hacen de las publicaciones de sus pares en revistas especializadas.

Faltan 79 mil vacantes en educación preescolar en Santiago

El trabajo elaborado por el Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación (CIAE) detectó que en Santiago existe una brecha de accesibilidad para salas cunas -33.653 vacantes- y nivel medio -45.688 vacantes-, mientras que en el nivel de kínder y prekínder sobran cupos. "La educación no opera en el vacío, sino que lo hace en un contexto territorial que es necesario conocer para que las políticas públicas tengan impacto", señalaron los investigadores.La investigación, financiada por Fondef, que se realizó junto al Centro de Inteligencia Territorial (CIT) de la U.

Educación no sexista: un paso necesario para la integración social

Uno de los aspectos más preocupantes respecto al sexismo en la sociedad chilena es cómo se segrega y se reproducen relaciones de género desde la sala de clases, afianzando esta situación.

We are looking for an intern to work with us on our publications!

For the further development of its hybrid publication strategy – combining digital and print books and other media – the Institute of Network Cultures is looking for an
Intern with a strong interest in (digital) publishing
3-6 months, 4 days a week, starting January or February 2017

The U.S. has just accused Russia of hacking America’s elections. That’s a very big deal.

Location

United States

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LITD 17 Committee, Bureau of Indian Standards Meeting

Vanya Rakesh attended the LITD-17 committee meeting (committee on Information Systems Security and Biometrics) organised by the Bureau of Indian Standards on 23 September 2016 in Bengaluru.

PALESTRA: A União Europeia e a promoção e defesa da democracia

PALESTRA: A União Europeia e a promoção e defesa da democracia10h00 até 11h00O Evento: A palestra visa abordar o papel da União Europeia em relação às lógicas de promoção e defesa da democracia. Tendo em vista as recentes crises constitucionais da Polônia e Hungria, serão abordados os desafios do processo de adesão de novos Estados à União Europeia, a regra da condicionalidade e seus mecanismos jurídicos de aplicação.
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