A recente política brasileira para a transformação digital

La implementación de las reformas y el futuro del sistema de educación superior chileno fueron los temas que marcaron la cita.

El ex parlamentario y abogado, quien formara parte del "Grupo de los 13" -facción de la Democracia Cristiana que rechazó tempranamente el Golpe de Estado de 1973-, acérrimo defensor de los derechos humanos, y trabajador de instancias fundamentales como la Vicaría de la Solidaridad y el Comité Pro Paz, murió este lunes 20 de agosto.

29.08.2018 - 19:00 - 20:30 Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Französische Straße 9 Berlin

How do large IT companies respect their customers’ right to freedom of expression? And what do they do to protect users’ privacy? The team of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) is currently looking for a student employee with enthusiasm for technical solutions for data-based research projects. The 15-20 hours per week…
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Die Bildergalerie "HHU-Nostalgia" stellt interessante Archiv-Motive vor und wird kontinuierlich ausgebaut und ergänzt: Viel Spaß! 
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University of Melbourne: “Biometric Mirror exposes the possibilities of artificial intelligence and facial analysis in public space. The aim is to investigate the attitudes that emerge as people are presented with different perspectives on their own, anonymised biometric data distinguished from a single photograph of their face.

On 1 September I start work as CEO of the Internet Society. I have a lot to do to live up to the example set by Kathy Brown with all that she achieved during her leadership. It is a great honour, and I appreciate the trust the Board of Trustees has placed in me. I will work daily to earn the same trust from the rest of the Internet community, in part by being transparent about what drives me to do this.

Ed Yong at the Atlantic: “Psychologists are in the midst of an ongoing, difficult reckoning.

Report by the Centre for Policy Innovation and Public Engagement (CPIPE): “In recent years, governments all over the world have been embracing new and innovative ways to develop public policies and design public services, from crowdsourcing to human-centred design thinking.

Book by Thouvenin, Florent (et al.): “… examines the fundamental question of how legislators and other rule-makers should handle remembering and forgetting information (especially personally identifiable information) in the digital age. It encompasses such topics as privacy, data protection, individual and collective memory, and the right to be forgotten when considering data storage, processing and deletion.

Kriss Deiglmeier & Amanda Greco at Stanford Social Innovation Review: “…As we applied the innovation continuum to the cases we studied, we identified barriers to scale that often trap social innovations in a stagnation chasm before they achieve diffusion and scaling.
 

Norjihan Abdul Ghani et al in Computers in Human Behavior: “Big data analytics has recently emerged as an important research area due to the popularity of the Internet and the advent of the Web 2.0 technologies. Moreover, the proliferation and adoption of social media applications have provided extensive opportunities and challenges for researchers and practitioners.

Diana Budds at Curbed: “Algorithms are invisible, but they already play a large role in shaping New York City’s built environment, schooling, public resources, and criminal justice system.

Book by Anand Giridharadas: “… takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can–except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it. We see how they rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor; how they lavishly reward “thought leaders” who redefine “change” in winner-friendly ways; and how they constantly seek to do more good, but never less harm.

Anna Berti Suman in the International Review of Law, Computers & Technology: “This contribution analyses the promises and challenges of using bottom-up produced sensors data to manage public-health risks in the (smart) city. The article criticizes traditional ways of governing public-health risks with the aim to inspect the contribution that a sensor-based risk governance may bring to the fore.

Melanie Lefkowitz at Cornell Chronicle: “Cornell research has improved bike sharing in New York and other cities, providing tools to ensure bikes are available when and where they’re needed through a crowdsourcing system that uses real-time information to make decisions.

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Please join the Honorable BN Srikrishna, Chairman of the Group of Experts on Data Protection in India & former Justice of the Supreme Court of India, as he discusses the drafting of India's first ever data protection framework, submitted to the Indian government on July 27, 2018.September 19, 2018Stanford University

Desde hace algunos años se discute en algunos círculos empresariales y académicos, la existencia de una cuarta revolución industrial impulsada por el impacto de la tecnología digital y el procesamiento de datos, dando vida a lo que se conoce como "fábrica inteligente". Sus consecuencias: una explosión de la productividad, pero también una creciente automatización -y desaparición- de numerosos puestos de trabajo.

Osamentas humanas encontradas en plena construcción de la doble vía que uniría La Serena con Vallenar en 2014, forzaron el cese de las obras en un área de casi dos hectáreas, sobre las cuales el Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales ordenó a la empresa Sacyr una caracterización arqueológica y posterior rescate. El trabajo de un equipo de 70 profesionales liderado por los arqueólogos egresados de la U.