Ken Doctor at Politico: “Get ready to hear a lot about the “uberfication” of user-generated content.

Open Knowledge International is a member of Open Data for Development (OD4D), a global network of leaders in the open data community, working together to develop open data solutions around the world. In collaboration with the OD4D program, Open Knowledge International coordinates the Africa Open Data Collaboration Fund which is designed to provide seed support to empower Africa’s emerging open data civic organisations and entrepreneurs.

The Telangana government has over the past year made information technology (“IT”) a major focus area for development. It aims to double IT exports within a period of five years. It has, to this end, created a single-stop online clearance mechanism for companies.  Amongst other activities, it has also signed MoUs and letters of understanding […]

La entidad que actualmente cuenta con más de 500 mil dominios inscritos y que se apronta a cumplir 30 años de historia, comenzará un plan piloto para que entidades internacionalmente certificadas puedan comercializar los dominios .CL junto a otros servicios vinculados, como casillas de correos electrónicos y diseño web, mejorando el servicio a los usuarios.

El pasado 14 de septiembre, una delegación de la Academia de Bellas Artes Jan Matejko de Cracovia, encabezada por su prorrector para ciencia y asuntos internacionales, Bogdan Achimescu, visitó la Casa Central de nuestro plantel, donde fue recibida por el Rector (s) Rafael Epstein y otras autoridades universitarias. En la ocasión conversaron sobre la necesidad de generar un acuerdo de colaboración con el objetivo de revitalizar el arte y enriquecer la actividad académica de ambas instituciones.“El desarrollo de las artes es una problemática de carácter nacional.

"Piensa Cobre" es el nombre de este concurso cuya segunda versión fue presentada para promover investigaciones, innovaciones y proyectos relacionados con la industria minera, y contribuir de esta forma con el desarrollo del país. Estudiantes de pre y postgrado están invitados a poner todas sus capacidades y creatividad al servicio de la mayor industria chilena.

Springwise: “It’s unlikely that cars will ever completely disappear, so cities are finding ways to help two wheels and four wheels safely co-exist. In-ground LED lights warn cars when a cyclist is approaching, and this app provides a driver’s safety performance report after each journey.

Dissertation by David Merritt: “Crowdsourcing systems promise to leverage the “wisdom of crowds” to help solve many kinds of problems that are difficult to solve using only computers. Although a crowd of people inherently represents a diversity of skill levels, knowledge, and opinions, crowdsourcing system designers typically view this diversity as noise and effectively cancel it out by aggregating responses.

Book by James Hendler and Alice Mulvehill: “Will your next doctor be a human being—or a machine? Will you have a choice? If you do, what should you know before making it?

Report by Rwitwika Bhattacharya and Mohitkumar Daga: “The importance of data in informing the policy-making process is being increasingly realized across the world. With India facing significant developmental challenges, use of data offers an important opportunity to improve the quality of public services. However, lack of formal structures to internalize a data-informed decision-making process impedes the path to robust policy formation.

Andrew Young and Stefaan Verhulst at the Open Data Charter Blog: “The international Open Data Charter has emerged from the global open data community as a galvanizing document to place open government data directly in the hands of citizens and organizations. To drive this process forward, and ensure that the outcomes are both systemic and transformational, new open data policy needs to be based on evidence of how and when open data works in practice.

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with John Palfrey, Yochai Benkler, Intisar Rabb, Zeynep Tufekci, Catherine Bracy, and Jonathan Zittrain

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A creative discussion about the impact of the networked public sphere on global events, power dynamics, and our society at large, and how that influence may be changing in years to come.

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with Prof. Susan Crawford

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The Responsive Communities Initiative led by Prof. Susan Crawford at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University addresses some of the most important issues of economic development, social justice, and civil liberties of our time – those prompted by Internet access. This event is part of Boston's HUBweek 2016.

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Berkman Klein Luncheon Series

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Roma, 27 settembre 2016
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Book by Leitão, João and Alves, Helena: This volume discusses the importance of adopting entrepreneurial and innovation practices in the public sector, as mechanisms for detecting, dealing with and including citizens’ social needs, with a reflection on positive determination of their quality of life. It focuses on critical reflection and rethinking the articulation between the dimensions of transformation – entrepreneurship and innovation – of New Public Management (NPM).

Essay by Mark A. Calabria in Cato Journal: “Behavioral economics has continued to gain momentum in challenging the standard rational actor model in economics. With a few exceptions, the emphasis has been on the cognitive failure of individuals outside of government. Niclas Berggren (2013: 200) estimates that 95.5 percent of behavioral economics articles in the leading economics journals do not contain an analysis of the cognitive ability of policymakers.

PressRelease: “Twitter and UN Global Pulse today announced a partnership that will provide the United Nations with access to Twitter’s data tools to support efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, which were adopted by world leaders last year.

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El mercado de la cerveza a nivel mundial, a estudio por los alumnos de Marketing

Francesc Pumarola charla distendidamente con los alumnos tras la sesión impartida y comparte sus experiencias personales trabajando para la marca de cervezas Estrella Galicia.
FOTO: Gabriel Pout

Juan Pérez-Calvo expone antes sus compañeros un estudio sobre la marca Heineken y sus estrategias de mercado.
FOTO: Gabriel Pout

27 September 2016

Los reclamos de pacientes esperando por largas horas para ser atendidos o denunciando haber sido hospitalizados en los pasillos de los recintos asistenciales, pusieron recientemente en la contingencia el tema del colapso hospitalario en nuestro país. A propósito de esta crítica situación, en la siguiente columna la doctora Soledad Martínez, subdirectora de la Escuela de Salud Pública de la U. de Chile, profundiza sobre qué entendemos por colapso y cuáles son sus causas.