En el marco del encuentro anual de Centros de Enseñanza y Aprendizaje de Chile (ECAD), el presidente de HERDSA y de ICED -las dos más importantes asociaciones del área en educación superior del mundo-, visitó el Centro de Enseñanza y Aprendizaje (CEA) de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios de la Universidad de Chile, para conocer el trabajo desarrollado por el equipo de profesionales.De formación Contador Auditor, Allan Goody es uno de los principales promotores mundiales de la formación de Centros de Enseñanza y Aprendizaje en universidades.

En un seminario, realizado por la Cátedra Amanda Labarca en conmemoración del Día Internacional de la Mujer, temas como el aborto, violencia obstétrica y brechas de género en educación, fueron analizados por académicas y estudiantes que pusieron sobre la mesa prácticas culturales cotidianas que continúan afectando la vida de las mujeres en el Chile actual."Hoy, en este seminario nos centraremos en dos áreas donde se despliega cotidianamente el sexismo: la salud y la educación y que nos atañen directamente en tanto institución formadora de profesionales", dijo Loreto Rebolle

Con el apoyo de Fondecyt, diversos estudios liderados por investigadores del CIAE analizaron la magnitud y el impacto del ordenamiento académico interno en los establecimientos. Los resultados: en promedio, ningún tipo de colegio que ordena logra que sus estudiantes obtengan un mejor desempeño académico en las pruebas SIMCE en comparación con colegios que no ordenan.Existen diversos mecanismos de gestión de la diversidad académica al interior de los establecimientos educativos.

Good time to be in IoT security: Spending on Internet of Things security products and services will rise to $1.5 billion in 2018, up 28 percent from 2017, estimates Gartner. IoT security spending will skyrocket to $3 billion a year in 2021, according to a story in DarkReading.

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W tym numerze Kserokopii prezentujemy wątpliwości Rzecznika Praw Obywatelskich dotyczące kar za naruszenia praw autorskich, prawnoautorskie zarzuty przeciwko ekologom na Alasce oraz głos w dyskusji na temat wpływu wąskiego wyjątku na rzecz TDM na przemysł. Zapraszamy też do zapoznania się z naszym podsumowaniem działań w zakresie polityk publicznych „8 tematów ważnych dla nas w 2017”.

On March 13-17, 2018 The GovLab brought together two dozen crowdlaw experts from around the world to collaborate on developing new ways to include more and more diverse opinions and expertise at every stage of the law- and policy-making process. The convening was held at the Rockefeller Foundation’s famed Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy. This post is the second in a series of blog posts from the crowdlaw conference participants.
A session in progress at the CrowdLaw conference at the Rockefeller Foundation conference center in Bellagio, Italy

Während die durch den Erreger Mycobacterium tuberculosis ausgelöste Tuberkulose-Erkrankung dank Antibiotikatherapie in entwickelten Ländern gut im Griff ist, stellt sie das Gesundheitssystem in Entwicklungsländern weiterhin vor große Aufgaben. Dies liegt schon daran, dass das in Entwicklungsländern am meisten genutzte diagnostische Verfahren, der noch aus dem 19. Jahrhundert stammende mikroskopische „Ziehl-Neelsen-Test“, sehr aufwändig ist. Er ist zwar schnell und kostengünstig, kann aber nur von medizinisch erfahrenem Personal sicher ausgeführt werden.

Britain is failing its growing army of self-employed workers according to a new report.
With 7.1 million workers engaged in ‘precarious’ employment and 77 per cent of the self-employed living in poverty, the report ‘Working Together: Trade Union and Co-operative Innovations for Precarious Work’ calls for increased protection for those operating in the so-called gig economy.  

We’re talking about a different mental register of paradigm for understanding the world. For so long, we’ve had this presumption of fiction that the homo economicus, the utility maximizing individual, is the chief agent in the way to see the world. The commons says there is a different way to see humanity—not simply as a notional ideal, but as a practical operational system and there’s countless examples out there.

Book by Yascha Mounk: “The world is in turmoil. From India to Turkey and from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. As a result, Yascha Mounk shows, democracy itself may now be at risk.

Khushboo Balwani: Here’s the problem: The rapid expansion of cities is breaking the relationship that people have with the food ecosystem. Although the problem is receiving attention by some city officials, and they are adopting new sustainability programs and policies, it is a time-consuming, top-down process with an uncertain impact. What if with a bottom-up approach of small, local actions citizens can engage with could have a massive impact?

Sharath Chandra presented his work "Listening Machines - New interfaces for Art-Science and Technology Policy" at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C, at the Arthur M Sackler Colloquia on March 12, 2018.
For more info on the program click here

Sunil Abraham and Aayush Rathi attended a round-table on 'Cybersecurity: The Intersection of Policy and Technology'. The event was organised by Synergia Foundation, Bengaluru.
The speakers for the round-table were Deborah Housen-Couriel, Professor at the Kennedy School of Government, Gaurav Gupta - Principal Secretary for IT, BT, and S&T, Government of Karnataka, and Dana Kursh, Consul General of Israel to South India.

Amber Sinha participated as a panelist in the discussion on adapting privacy to new technologies organised by the USIBC on March 6, 2018 in New Delhi.

IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad says that under the IT Act, Facebook’s chief executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg, can be summoned to India if required.
The article by Komal Gupta was published by Livemint on March 21, 2018.

IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday warned Facebook and other social networks of tough action, if they attempted to influence the Indian elections.
The article by Alnoor Peermohamed and Karan Choudhury was published in the Business Standard on March 23, 2018.

Sunil Abraham, Executive Director of Centre for Internet and Society, says Indians are vulnerable in the absence of a data protection law.
The blog post by Amit Bhardwaj was published by Newslaundry on March 24, 2018.

The absence of a data protection law and a competition watchdog to oversee Internet companies are key shortcomings, according to some experts.
The article by Vidhi Choudhary was published in Hindustan Times on March 24, 2018

Paper by Gianluca Elia and Alessandro Margherita describing “A conceptual framework and a collective intelligence system to support problem analysis and solution design for complex social issues…Wicked problems are complex and multifaceted issues that have no single solution, and are perceived by different stakeholders through contrasting views. Examples in the social context include climate change, poverty, energy production, sanitation, sustainable cities, pollution and homeland security.