On 7 August 2017 Open Knowledge Nepal launched the first version of Nepali Open Data Handbook – An introductory guidebook used by governments and civil society organizations around the world as an introduction and blueprint for open data projects. The book was launched by Mr. Krishna Hari Baskota, Chief Information Commissioner of National Information Commission, Dr. Nama Raj Budhathoki, Executive Director of Kathmandu Living Labs and Mr.
Seminário Portugal-Brasil - Tecnologia e Sociedade no Século XXI09h00 até 17h30O Evento:
A Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Católica Portuguesa e o Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade da FGV Direito Rio realizam o Seminário Portugal-Brasil: Tecnologia e Sociedade no Século XXI, no dia 10 de novembro, no Centro Cultural da FGV no Rio de Janeiro.
O evento contará com a presença de autoridades acadêmicas, políticas e do mercado brasileiro e estrangeiro para discussões sobre os impactos das novas tecnologias em nossa sociedade e os possíveis modelos de regulação.
Maurice Chammah and Simone Weichselbaum at the Marshall Project: “Of the hundreds of photos from Charlottesville, Va., that circulated online this weekend, a few seemed destined to be cited as evidence of crimes. One photo shows three men beating 20 year-old Deandre Harris with poles in a parking garage.
Nilmini Rubin & Jennifer Hara at the Stanford Social Innovation Review: “…the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) estimates that the United States needs $4.56 trillion to keep its deteriorating infrastructure current but only has funding to cover less than half of necessary infrastructure spending—leaving the at least country
Palestra: Direito, Startups e Empreendedorismo no Brasil09h00 até 12h30O Evento: Historicamente, negócios inovadores de alto impacto, tais como Airbnb, Google, Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox e Apple, têm sido responsáveis pelo desenvolvimento e crescimento da economia mundial, bem como mudanças profundas em nossa sociedade. A cada instante surgem novas tecnologias e, consequentemente, milhares de novas empresas, as chamadas Startups, que estão revolucionando modelos tradicionais de negócios.
Derek B. Johnson at FCW: “The Heritage Foundation…is calling for increased reliance on automation and the potential creation of a “contractor cloud” offering streamlined access to private sector labor as part of its broader strategy for reorganizing the federal government.
Over the past eight weeks, The GovLab, in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Mexico’s Secretariat of the Civil Service (Secretaría de la Función Pública, or SFP), held a series of online conferences to generate new, actionable ideas in the fight against corruption in Mexico.
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The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University today released a comprehensive analysis of online media and social media coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign. The report, "Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election," documents how highly partisan right-wing sources helped shape mainstream press coverage and seize the public’s attention in the 18-month period leading up to the election.
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"Un país que destruye su suelo es un país que se destruye a sí mismo", señala el ingeniero forestal Pablo García-Chevesich, académico de la Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservación de la Naturaleza (FCFCN) y consultor del Programa Hidrológico Internacional de Unesco, quien alerta sobre la situación que vive Chile respecto a la erosión.
El profesor del Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Alexandre Bergel, analiza algunos de los desafíos que actualmente enfrenta el desarrollo de la Inteligencia Artificial en el mundo, las dudas que se generan y los beneficios que podría traer.
El desarrollo de algoritmos capaces de predecir zonas urbanas con mayor "riesgo criminal", es la labor que realizan estudiantes del Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, a partir de un software que puede ayudar en la generación de políticas públicas para esta materia. El trabajo se concentró en verificar zonas, y no delitos específicos, para calzar con los preceptos del Plan Cuadrante de Carabineros.
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In this study, we analyze both mainstream and social media coverage of the 2016 United States presidential election. We document that the majority of mainstream media coverage was negative for both candidates, but largely followed Donald Trump’s agenda.
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16 Aug 2017
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Introduction
OpenSpending is a free, open and global platform to search, visualise, and analyse fiscal data in the public sphere. This week, we soft launched an updated technical platform, with a newly designed landing page. Until now dubbed “OpenSpending Next”, this is a completely new iteration on the previous version of OpenSpending, which has been in use since 2011.
Landing page at https://openspending.org
This is a blog post coauthored with Enrique Zapata, of the Mexican National Digital Strategy.
As part of the last Global Open Data Index (GODI), Open Knowledge International (OKI) decided to have a dialogue phase, where we invited individuals, CSOs, and national governments to exchange different points of view, knowledge about the data and understand data publication in a more useful way.
Digitalisation changes science and research. This simple insight is also present in the programs of German parties, although not to the same extent and with different foci. Which German parties... MORE