Lançamento da Parceria Fundação Getulio Vargas - Transparência Internacional e discussão do projeto do “Centro de Conhecimento Anticorrupção”17h00O Evento: A Transparência Internacional (TI) atua há 20 anos contra a corrupção e tem presença em mais de 100 países. Ao longo desses anos acumulou um vasto estoque de conhecimento sobre a corrupção e as suas soluções. Pesquisando e aprendendo com a prática, desenvolveu um amplo portfólio de publicações, bases de dados, índices, metodologias, métodos de treinamento e até mesmo um serviço de assistência para ativistas e profissionais.

Today, a division bench of the Supreme Court of India comprising of the Chief Justice Thakur and Justice Khanwalkar examined a public interest litigation petition seeking a ban on Whatsapp and analogous messenger apps. The petition, filed by Mr. Sudhir Yadav, states that the complete end-to-end encryption technology adopted by Whatsapp (and other messenger apps) […]

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Politecnico di Torino, Doctoral School
23, 27, 28, and 29 June 2016
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Author(s): Beth Van SchaackPublication Date: June 29, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingThe US State Department and the Agency for International Development recently published a series of policy papers on the US approach to transitional justice.

Date published: June 29, 2016"And its odds of winning are high, said Daphne Keller, director of intermediary liability at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society, who said many companies have successfully used the CDA as a defense."
Los Angeles Times

Date published: June 29, 2016"“The accused in this case could (and may well) raise . . . First Amendment challenges” to the Twitter ban, Scott Shackelford, a professor of cybersecurity law at Indiana University said in an email. But, he added, “the threatening nature of the Tweets in question” could be used to justify the ban."
The Washington Post

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En el contexto de las movilizaciones estudiantiles que buscan incidir en la tramitación de la reforma a la educación superior, el Rector Ennio Vivaldi convocó a los distintos organismos representativos y de gobierno de la institución a una jornada de diálogo sin precedentes para debatir sobre la posibilidad de contar con una posición común en defensa de la educación pública.

Con la misión de seguir avanzando en el crecimiento y mejoramiento continuo de la calidad de la educación impartida en el IEI, el profesor Morandé asume a la cabeza del Instituto, luego de haber sido director de la Revista Estudios Internacionales y ser uno de los docentes más destacados de la institución.El Instituto de Estudios Internacionales está en un proceso de expansión en el alcance de la labor de investigación y extensión que realiza.

Pensando en una manera de reemplazar los cuestionados -pero apetecidos- nuggets del mercado, los estudiantes de la carrera de Ingeniería en Alimentos de la Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Carla Schilling y Cristóbal González, crearon una alternativa basada en betarraga, zapallo y espinaca, con legumbres y tres variedades de sabor: pollo, tocino y carne. La elaboración del producto se enmarca dentro de la XII Expoferia de Alimentos Funcionales, iniciativa que impulsa que estudiantes de último año de la carrera elaboren nuevos alimentos.

Ken Banks at kiwanja.net: “The ubiquity of mobile phones, the reach of the Internet, the shear number of problems facing the planet, competitions and challenges galore, pots of money and strong media interest in tech-for-good projects has today created the perfect storm. Not a day goes by without the release of an app hoping to solve something, and the fact so many people are building so many apps to fix so many problems can only be a good thing. Right?

Paper by Florian Schaub, Travis D.

Book edited by D’Ascenzo, F., Magni, M., Lazazzara, A., Za, S: “This book examines the impact of digital innovation on organizations. It reveals how the digital revolution is redefining traditional levels of analysis while at the same time blurring the internal and external boundaries of the organizational environment. It presents a collection of research papers that examine the interaction between Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and behavior from a threefold perspective:

Special issue of Frontiers in Human Neuroscience edited by Corrado Corradi-Dell’Acqua, Leonie Koban, Susanne Leiberg and Patrik Vuilleumier: “In the last decade, a growing research effort in behavioral sciences, especially psychology and neuroscience, has been

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Author(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: June 28, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingThe United Kingdom’s historic decision to leave the EU has stunned Brussels and sent shock waves through Europe. The Scottish governmenthas threatened to hold a second referendum on independence, jeopardizing the kingdom’s unity.

Date published: June 28, 2016"In that regard, the liability system won’t have to change much to adapt to self-driving cars, says Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor of the School of Law at the University of South Carolina. Thanks to a series of laws governing liability, called tort law, drivers can currently seek compensation from a manufacturer for a faulty airbag or a defective tire.Vocativ

Date published: June 28, 2016"“If the U.S. doesn’t get thoughtful about robotics policy, we will wind up losing out to these other nations,” Ryan Calo, an expert in cyber law and robotics at the University of Washington School of Law, tells Vocativ. Vocativ

What does it mean to receive an academic fellowship? Are fellowships just polite language for recognition and money? Or do great fellowships offer something deeper by giving us meaningful networks of friendship and support?
This gif from a 2015 article uses a novel method called 'GLO-Roots' to visualize and comparethe growth of roots in water deficient (left) and control conditions (right).

Clive Thompson at the Smithsonian magazine: “As the 2016 election approaches, we’re hearing a lot about “red states” and “blue states.” That idiom has become so ingrained that we’ve almost forgotten where it originally came from: a data visualization.