Especialistas del Ministerio de Obras Públicas (MOP) y académicos de la U. de Chile se reunieron para entender cómo la capacidad de cómputo instalada en la universidad puede apoyar la planificación y construcción de infraestructura. Para procesar volúmenes importantes de datos vinculados al clima es clave un supercomputador como Leftraru, el más poderoso de Chile a cargo del Laboratorio Nacional de Computación de Alto Rendimiento del Centro de Modelamiento Matemático (CMM) de la Universidad de Chile.

Lançamento do livro “Habeas Corpus nos Tribunais Superiores"18h00O Evento: O livro apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa financiada pelo Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), com apoio da Secretaria de Assuntos Legislativos do Ministério da Justiça (SAL/MJ) por meio de editais públicos (IPEA/PNPD Nº 131/2012 e IPEA/PNPD nº 098/2014) e faz parte do Projeto “Pensando o Direito” criado em 2007 para promover a democratização do processo de elaboração legislativa no Brasil.

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Stanford CIS brings together scholars, academics, legislators, students, programmers, security researchers, and scientists to study the interaction of new technologies and the law and to examine how the synergy between the two can either promote or harm public goods like free speech, innovation, privacy, public commons, diversity, and scientific inquiry.

In part due to strained race relations, Malaysia has cultivated a ‘Culture of Silence’ when it comes to discussing controversial topics in the public realm. Explain how this culture works and how social media can subvert the silence. Article 10...

OpenSpending is one of Open Knowledge International’s current projects. It is a free and open platform for citizens looking to track and analyse public fiscal information globally.

Danny Lämmerhirt and Stefaan Verhulst at IODC blog: “…Lord Kelvin’s famous quote “If you can not measure it, you can not improve it” equally applies to open data.

Paper by Alexis Comber, Peter Mooney, Ross S. Purves, Duccio Rocchini, and Ariane Walz: “Volunteered geographical information (VGI) and citizen science have become important sources data for much scientific research.

Book edited by F. Xavier Olleros and Majlinda Zhegu: “The digital transition of the world economy is now entering a phase of broad and deep societal impact. While there is one overall transition, there are many different sectoral transformations, from health and legal services to tax reports and taxi rides, as well as a rising number of transversal trends and policy issues, from widespread precarious employment and privacy concerns to market monopoly and cybercrime.

Op 7 september 2016 vond in de Rode Hoed in Amsterdam de boekpresentatie plaats van:   Het verschil van mening: Geschiedenis van een verkeerd begrepen idee Prof. E.J. Dommering         Lees hier de inleiding die Prof. Dommering tijdens deze avond gaf. Media: Interview met Prof. Dommering in het radioprogramma Met het oog […]

Press Release: “UNICEF is calling on world leaders to invest in better data on children, warning in a new analysis that sufficient data is available only for half of the child-related Sustainable Development Goals indicators. 

El conversatorio "Reencuentro de la Paya con la Universidad", se realizó este jueves 1 de septiembre congregando en la Casa Central a artistas, académicos y autoridades en torno a este arte. La actividad tiene como antecedente el Primer Congreso Nacional de Poetas y Cantores Populares de Chile, realizado en la Casa de Bello el año 1954. El Salón de Honor de la Casa Central alojó esta actividad donde luego de 62 años los artistas del canto a lo poeta retornaron a la Casa de Bello..

Este viernes 2 de septiembre el Consejo Universitario aprobó por unanimidad la propuesta del Rector Vivaldi de nombrar al profesor Rafael Epstein Numhauser como prorrector de nuestro plantel, sucediendo al profesor Sergio Jara Díaz.

El trabajo, realizado por el Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación de la U. de Chile detectó que en el Gran Santiago más del 40 por ciento de los niños tiene menos de 50 por ciento de probabilidad de acceder a escuelas efectivas. Asimismo, en Antofagasta, el Gran Valparaíso y San Antonio, Cartagena y Santo Domingo más de la mitad de estudiantes de los grupos socioeconómicos D y E se ubican en zonas de bajo acceso a este tipo de establecimientos.

They are unlikely to oblige to request to make changes in their operating system and devices to ensure Aadhaar authentication is done securely on smartphones.
The article by Alnoor Peermohammed was published in the Business Standard on September 14, 2016. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

On August 31st, twenty-four experts from ten countries joined two dozen public officials from four Latin American countries in the first of six two-hour online conversations. In this first session, we focused on identifying novel strategies that governments can use to understand what different groups within the population do and do not understand about Zika. With limited resources for combatting Zika, governments the world over are eager for more evidence-based approaches.

Book by Roberto Simanowski: “Intelligence services, government administrations, businesses, and a growing majority of the population are hooked on the idea that big data can reveal patterns and correlations in everyday life. Initiated by software engineers and carried out through algorithms, the mining of big data has sparked a silent revolution. But algorithmic analysis and data mining are not simply byproducts of media development or the logical consequences of computation.

Springwise: “When it comes to public awareness and behavior change campaigns, it’s always interesting to see how organizations effect change. Last year, we covered a Russian nonprofit which uses hologram projections of disabled drivers to ward off those tempted to take disabled parking spaces.

Martina Dopfer, a PhD-candidate at the HIIG, investigates business model innovation of startups and incumbent firms. She is also a passionate yoga teacher and meditates regularly. That passion also raised... MORE

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