We are living in turbulent times for electoral democracy. But it didn’t start with the Brexit referendum and the election of Trump. Over the period 2006 – 2016 the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index recorded a decline in democratic health for more than half the 167 countries it monitors.
Leila Harris, Jiaying Zhao and Martine Visser in The Conversation: “Cape Town could become the world’s first major city to run out of water – what’s been termed Day Zero….To its credit, the city has worked with researchers at the University of Cape Town to test strategies to nudge domestic users into reducing their water use. Nudges are int
Adianto que este texto não é uma publicação de louvor aos avanços das políticas de empoderamento feminino. Exemplificar a existência de liderança feminina no mercado tecnológico pela CEO da Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, e COO do Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg serem mulheres é cometer um erro metodológico, pois estas personalidades são casos de exceção, não a regra. Pretendo apontar um dos embargos para a efetivação da presença de mulheres na ecosfera tecnológica: a necessidade de romper com papeis sociais impostos e adentrar campo apoderado pelo masculino.
Duas Premissas fundamentais
Matthew Hutson at Science: “When someone roughs up a pedestrian, robs a store, or kills in cold blood, police want to know whether the perpetrator was a gang member: Do they need to send in a special enforcement team? Should they expect a crime in retaliation? Now, a new algorithm is trying to automate the process of identifying gang crimes.
In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]
This International Women’s Day, we’re boosting the profiles of incredible women around the world who are pushing boundaries using technology – and we encourage you to do the same!
National Institute of Public Finance and Policy is organizing a roundtable on data protection and privacy in New Delhi on March 8, 2018. Sunil Abraham is participating as a moderator in the session on Rights and Protections. Amber Sinha is also participating as a panelist.
Agenda here
Michael Eisenstein at Nature: “…The good news is that the present era of widespread access to the Internet and digital health has created a rich reservoir of valuable data for researchers to dive into….By harvesting and combining these streams of big data with conventional ways of monitoring infectious diseases, the public-health community could gain fresh powers to catch and curb emerging outbreaks before they rage out of control.
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Facebook and Twitter have been under increasing scrutiny for allowing targeted political ads from Russia-backed entities to manipulate voters and influence elections.
The article by Nilesh Christopher was published by ET Tech on March 7, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
Los liceos Gabriela Mistral de Independencia y el Instituto Cumbre de Cóndores de Renca, se suman a contar de este año a los cinco establecimientos que integran el Programa de Acompañamiento y Acceso Efectivo a la Educación Superior, y con ello, a las diferentes actividades formativas, culturales y de orientación que brinda esta iniciativa que busca, entre otros objetivos, la equidad y la inclusión en el sistema universitario.Dos nuevas comunidades, dos nuevas realidades.
Tras la aprobación del proyecto de Ley sobre Universidades Estatales este miércoles 24 de enero -en el que en los últimos trámites legislativos se logró duplicar el presupuesto del plan de fortalecimiento y la creación de un Comité de Coordinación-, los rectores del CUECh, encabezados por su presidente y Rector de la Casa de Bello, Ennio Vivaldi, se reunieron con la Presidenta Michelle Bachelet y la ministra de Educación, Adriana Delpiano.Un largo proceso, marcado por la participación de las universidades estatales y sus comunidades en las instancias legislativas, concluyó
Mehr als 1,2 Millionen Menschen in Deutschland leiden an der Alzheimerschen Demenz. Bislang konnte noch kein wirksames Mittel gegen die Krankheit gefunden werden. Ein Grund dafür liegt auch in der Diagnostik: Meist wird die Krankheit erst im Spätstadium erkannt, wenn die Schädigung des Gehirns bereits weit fortgeschritten ist. Der Labortest „sFIDA“ der attyloid GmbH könnte in Zukunft frühere und eindeutigere Diagnosen ermöglichen.
New project by MIT Center for Civic Media and the Engagement Lab@Emerson College: “Learning to work with data is like learning a new language — immersing yourself in the culture is
Am Rande des vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) organisierten "Deutschen Tag der Wissenschaften" in Teheran und Isfahan verabredeten die HHU und die Universität Isfahan eine engere Zusammenarbeit. Zukünftig wollen beide Hochschulen eine engere Kooperation insbesondere in den Naturwissenschaften anstreben.
On February 26 CMPF Project Assistant, Luc Steinberg attended the first of the Brussels Press Club’s first Digital Forum event for 2018.
Die erste Veranstaltung am 14. März thematisiert die medizinische Indikation aus medizinethischer und juristischer Perspektive:14.03.2018 Die medizinische Indikation – medizinethische und juristische Aspekte19:00 Uhr in der OASE, Campus Universitätsklinikum DüsseldorfDr. A. Oommen-Halbach, Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik in der Medizin, HHU und M.
Eduardo Porter at The New York Times: “The idea has been around for a bit.
Springwise: “The term ‘fake news’ has become all too common in media coverage. However, a news item doesn’t have to be entirely made up to be misleading. Many fake news stories intend to deceive, often with a political agenda. Disinformation works because many people fail to recognise false information. A recent study, conducted by Britain’s Channel 4, found that only four percent of those surveyed could tell fake news from real.
Dabei geht es den beiden Wissenschaftlern um Forscherinnen, die in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts für den Nobelpreis für Physiologie oder Medizin nominiert wurden, aber den Preis nie erhielten. Zu dieser Gruppe gehören die französische Neurologin Cécile Vogt und die amerikanische Kinderärztin Helen B. Taussig. Hansson und Fangerau haben ihre Nobelpreisnominierungen beleuchtet.
This blog has been reposted from the Open State Foundation blog.