La directora ejecutiva del Comité Operativo de Acreditación Institucional (COAI), Gloria Riquelme, agradeció la buena recepción por parte de los miembros de la Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile (FECh) y los representantes de los Centros de Estudiantes de cada Facultad e Instituto.Tras el lanzamiento de la campaña “Contigo acreditamos la Chile”, el Comité Operativo de Acreditación Institucional (COAI), expuso los avances del proceso de reacreditación 2018 durante la plenaria que realizaron este jueves 28 de septiembre, los estudiantes agru

Phys.org: “Determining how many people live in Seattle, perhaps of a certain age, perhaps from a specific country, is the sort of question that finds its answer in the census, a massive data dump for places across the country.

James Bridle at Open Democracy: “Historically, and for those lucky enough to be born under the aegis of stable governments and national regimes, there have been two ways in which citizenship is acquired at birth. Jus soli – the right of soil – confers citizenship upon those born within the territory of a state regardless of their parentage.

Mimi Kirk at CityLab: “Almost three weeks after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, the island is in a grim state. Fewer than 15 percent of residents have power, and much of the island has no clean drinking water.

Rana Foroohar at the Financial Times: “One thing that’s becoming very clear to me as I report on the digital economy is that a rethink of the legal framework in which business has been conducted for many decades is going to be required. Many of the key laws that govern digital commerce (which, increasingly, is most commerce) were crafted in the 1980s or 1990s, when the internet was an entirely different place. Consider, for example, the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Gwinyai Masukume et al at StatNews: “When the Ebola pandemic erupted in West Africa in 2014, the English-language Wikipedia articles on Ebola were overhauled and versions were created or updated in more than 100 other languages. These pages would go on to be viewed at least 89 million times in 2014, and were the most used online sources for Ebola information in each of the four most affected countries.

This is a somewhat belated entry about the Abrelatam and Condatos, the regional open data conference of Latin America. It comes more than a month after the conference took place in San José, Costa Rica, but the questions raised there are still relevant and super important for advancing open data in Latin America and working towards truly open states.

Paper by Arden Rowell: “The nudge – a form of behaviorally-informed regulation that at-tempts to account for people’s scarce cognitive resources – has been explosively successful at colonizing the regulatory state.

Aufgrund von Verzögerungen im Genehmigungsverfahren hat der zuständige BLB NRW seine Planungen zu den Arbeiten am – bisher gesperrten – Parkdeck P1 (Gebäude 27.02) aktualisiert: Mit der Fertigstellung der rund 400 Parkplätze ist demnach bis Ende dieses Jahres zu rechnen.
Mit der Maßnahme werden im Süden des Campus der HHU übergangsweise Parkplätze geschaffen. Dazu werden umfangreiche Abbrucharbeiten vorgenommen. Der bisherige untere Teil der Anlage wird im Zuge der Arbeiten teilweise neu gepflastert und mit Beleuchtungsanlagen ausgestattet.

Der Sammelband bietet ein umfangreiches und aktuelles Kompendium, das sowohl die Komplexität als auch die Unschärfe des Begriffs der Kunstvermittlung in Theorie und Praxis exemplarisch widerspiegelt. Namhafte Autor*innen aus Theorie und Praxis, darunter Dirk Boll (Christie’s), Yilmaz Dziewior (Museum Ludwig), Wolfgang Ullrich (freier Autor) und Lisa Zeitz (Chefredakteurin Weltkunst), reflektieren das Feld der Vermittlung aus ihrer ganz persönlichen Perspektive.

Norbert Finzsch erhält den Preis für sein über sein Gebiet hinaus weit beachtetes wissenschaftliches Gesamtwerk, in der er sich zeitlebens unterdrückten, ausgegrenzten und diskriminierten Gruppen gewidmet hat: Arbeiter/innen; Strafgefangenen; African Americans; Chinese Americans; Frauen; Schwulen, Lesben, Queers und Transgenders; indigenen kolonisierten Gruppen. Als Wissenschaftler, der von der marxistischen Theorie, von der foucaultschen Diskursanalyse sowie der „queer“ Kritik geprägt wurde, stellt er die Materialität des Körpers ins Zentrum seiner Forschung.

Chris Ansell and Alison Gash in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory: “Collaborative-Platforms-as-a-Governance-Strategy?redirectedFrom=fulltextCollaborative governance is increasingly viewed as a proactive policy instrument, one in which the strategy of collaboration can be deployed on a larger scale and extended from one local context to another.

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Our forthcoming report Changing Societies through Urban Commons Transitions examines the re-emergence of the urban commons as both a bottom-up emergence by citizens/commoners and a radical municipal administrative configuration. Starting with an exploration of the relationship between cities and the commons, with a particular focus on the recent revival and growth of urban commons, we attempt to answer the question of why urban commons are so crucial for a social-ecological transition.

American media puts out countless articles about Cuba’s tech sector as a business opportunity. Some reports celebrate Cuban innovations borne out of necessity, like media deliveries by flash drive and massive mesh networks, but the larger story sends companies searching for cheap labor and new markets.

In samenwerking met De Internet Gids – online pendant van Nederlands oudste literaire tijdschrift – is het experimentele e-boekje 40 verschenen. Een fictief essay, speciaal geschreven om gelezen te worden op de smartphone.

On 15 August 2017, the BPF on Cybersecurity issued a public call for inputs through the IGF‘s mailing lists and through invitations to organizations and individuals with cybersecurity expertise.
Below is Internet Policy Observatory Pakistan Contribution to the IGF Best Practice Forum on Cyber Security.

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