Valentina Romei in the Financial Times: “…Behind the push for open data is a desire to make governments more transparent, accountable and efficient — but also to allow businesses to create products and services that spark economic development. The global annual opportunity cost of failing to do this effectively is about $5tn, according to one estimate from McKinsey, the consultancy.
Paper by Bill Howe et al: “Data too sensitive to be “open” for analysis and re-purposing typically remains “closed” as proprietary information. This dichotomy undermines efforts to make algorithmic systems more fair, transparent, and accountable.
Report by Michael Graglia, Christopher Mellon and Tim Robustelli: “Our interest in identity systems was an inevitable outgrowth of our earlier work on blockchain-based1 land registries.2 Property registries, which at the simplest level are ledgers of who has which rights to which asset, require a very secure and reliable means of identifying both people and properties.
Atul Gawande at the New Yorker: “….More than ninety per cent of American hospitals have been computerized during the past decade, and more than half of Americans have their health information in the Epic system. Seventy thousand employees of Partners HealthCare—spread across twelve hospitals and hundreds of clinics in New England—were going to have to adopt the new software.
Paper by Jennifer Shkabatur: “Data platform companies (such as Facebook, Google, or Twitter) amass and process immense amounts of data that is generated by their users. These companies primarily use the data to advance their commercial interests, but there is a growing public dismay regarding the adverse and discriminatory impacts of their algorithms on society at large.
This Sunday, November 11, 2018, the GovLab and the Bertelsmann Foundation will join nearly 20,000 experts and practitioners from the fields of politics, economics, academia, media, and civil society for the inaugural Paris Peace Forum, to present their project: People-Led Innovation.
Professor falou sobre o futuro da China no governo Xi JinpingNesta quarta-feira, dia 07/11, a FGV Direito Rio recebeu o professor Xie Chuntao, da Escola do Comitê Central do Partido Comunista Chinês para uma palestra sobre o futuro da China no governo Xi Jinping. O evento foi organizado pelo Núcleo de Estudos Brasil-China da FGV Direito Rio, em parceria com o Consulado Geral da China no Rio de Janeiro e com apoio do Conselho Empresarial Brasil-China.
Confira abaixo os highlights da fala do professor Xie Chuntao na FGV Direito Rio:
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Samantha Cole at Motherboard: “Wikipedia, the internet’s encyclopedia, is run entirely by volunteers—people who spend large swaths of their personal time making sure the information that
Data Collaboratives are a new form of collaboration, beyond the public-private partnership model, in which participants from different sectors — including private companies, research institutions, and government agencies — can exchange data to help solve public problems.
Juan Bru, director de RR. HH. de Huawei: “Las empresas necesitan acercarse a los universitarios de forma más activa, atractiva e innovadora”
El directivo participó en la presentación de la alianza entre la Universidad de Navarra y beWanted, una plataforma que conecta intereses de candidatos y empresas en unos minutos
De izquierda a derecha, Roberto Cabezas, Ignacio Lucea y Juan Bru, durante la presentación de la plataforma.
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Steve Lohr at The New York Times: “The mechanics of elections that attract the most attention are casting and counting, snafus with voting machines and ballots and allegations of hacking and fraud. But Jeff Jonas, a prominent data scientist, is focused on something else: the integrity, updating and expansion of voter rolls.
“As I dove into the subject, it grew on me, the complexity and relevance of the problem,” he said.
Die „Particulate Preparations and Design“ (PPD) Gruppe der Japanischen Gesellschaft für Pulvertechnologie vergab anlässlich des 35. PPD-Symposiums in Otsu, Japan, ihren Preis an Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Kleinebudde für seine bedeutenden Forschungsleistungen im Bereich der Feststoffzubereitungen von Arzneimitteln und deren Design. Er ist erst der vierte Europäer in 30 Jahren Verleihungsgeschichte, der diesen Preis erhielt. Nach der Verleihungszeremonie hielt Prof. Kleinebudde einen Festvortrag zum Thema „Trends in der kontinuierlichen Herstellung von pharmazeutischen Produkten“.
Die Geschichte, Theorie und Ästhetik des Theaters sind eng mit der Frage der Technik und mit (medien-)technologischen Entwicklungen verwoben, jedoch zeigt sich diese Verbindung als Unschärferelation: Die technische Bedingtheit von Theater tritt häufig hinter Fragen der künstlerischen Gestaltung zurück. Der Kongress widmet sich dem Verhältnis von Theater und Technik – der Wirkkraft und Kontinuität von Techniken, Praktiken und Dingen – unter dem Vorzeichen der technologischen Bedingung.
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Dominant platforms, like Uber and AirBnb were able to use millions of dollars to get to scale. But, without venture capital, what can platform co-ops do to match their growth? In this session, Vivian Woodell, ex CEO of The Phone Co-op and now head of The Foundation for Co-operative Innovation, leads an open discussion to find answers to help tackle “The capital conundrum”.
Timi Hamraie at The Atlantic: “A new breed of accessibility apps can make life easier for people with disabilities. They can also make it harder….
Andrea Fouche in Silicon Republic: “The people data revolution has finally arrived. 69pc of organisations are building integrated systems to analyse worker-related data.
Report by Amelia Acker: “…analyzes how bad actors manipulate metadata to create effective disinformation campaigns and provides tips for researchers and technology companies trying to spot this “data craft.”