Observaciones satelitales de la Agencia Espacial Europea y de la Nasa muestran que la disminución de la actividad humana producto del COVID-19 ha incidido en una baja de las emisiones de gases contaminantes en China y Europa de entre un 25 a un 40 por ciento. Académicos de la U. de Chile plantean que una situación distinta podría vivir nuestro país durante el invierno. El escenario sería especialmente complejo en la zona centro-sur, donde el incremento de emisiones configuraría una verdadera "tormenta perfecta" sobre la salud de la población.

Ante el desafío de asegurar la continuidad educativa de diversas instituciones educacionales, particularmente de la educación superior, egresados del Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial (DII) de la Facultad de Ciencias Física y Matemáticas (FCFM) crearon "Seguimos Virtual", la cual entrega tips y recomendaciones para enfrentar este desafío.En tiempos de cuarentena y clases online, los egresados del Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial (DII) de la Facultad de Ciencias Física y Matemáticas (FCFM), Fernando Brierley, Sebastián Balmaceda y Catalina Venegas, 

Tomorrow morning you get an audio message on your cell phone from The International New York Times: “Jerusalem: 1,400,000 New Coronavirus Cases!” Within minutes, there is a city-wide panic. You then scratch your head. “Wait a minute, the last census showed there are only about 931,756 people living in Jerusalem.” Luckily, you find out later in the day that the newspaper was hacked and that the story was created by malicious artificial intelligence (AI). Think this is imaginary? Not quite.

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A plea for why we need to change our relationship with nature"Nature is sending us a message with the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing climate crisis," UN Environment Commissioner Inger Andersen stated in the Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/coronavirus-nature-is-send...) on 25 March 2020. But what does she want to tell us?

On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

Auch wenn derzeit viele Online-Angebote den isolierten Menschen Nähe geben wollen, ein wirklicher Ersatz ist das nicht. „Analoge Kontakte sind auf jeden Fall deutlich wichtiger als digitale“, so die Wissenschaftlerin. „Es macht einen Unterschied, ob die Gesprächspartnerin oder der Freund anwesend ist. Ich muss mal in den Arm genommen werden oder gemeinsam spontan lachen. Das Analoge ist sehr viel intensiver und ich weiß schneller, ob ich mich auf den Menschen verlassen kann.“ Mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit liegt dies daran, dass Menschen auch chemisch miteinander kommunizieren.

Statistics tell us that at the end of the crisis, we will all know someone who has had Corona. Probably we will not all know someone who will have died of Corona. But what does it mean for us personally and as a society when a person dies in times of curfew and social distancing? A confrontation with a family tragedy.Article

El fracaso de la aplicación de reconocimiento facial implementada por el Registro Civil para entregar la "clave única" a la ciudadanía sin necesidad de que acudieran presencialmente a una sucursal, alertó sobre los riesgos de sistemas tecnológicos que aún cuentan con bajos niveles de fiabilidad, y reinstaló el debate sobre la ciberseguridad y el uso de datos sensibles de personas.

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At the recent SANOG meeting held in my homeland, Pakistan, I wanted to provide the local community with some insights into the importance of Internet exchanges (IXs), specifically the need to host content locally.

On March 5, 2020, the Italian government ordered a lockdown for all schools. A few days later, now a month ago (feels like ages), on March 9, all Italian cities, and all of us, human beings, were placed on a strict lockdown due to the coronavirus crisis. No more going out, no more walking, no more outdoor activities, except from shopping for ‘necessary’ reasons.

On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

Openness and transparency are key to solving the COVID-19 crisis.
The open sharing of data will help ensure public trust, encourage the restoration of public confidence in experts in the era of populism, and ultimately help lead to a vaccine to defeat the virus.
The Open COVID Pledge – a project of an international coalition of scientists, technologists, and legal experts – has been created to push for greater openness and transparency in the face of this crisis.

A FGV Direito Rio se solidariza com a situação enfrentada pelos brasileiros e brasileiras neste momento de crise sanitária ocasionada pela pandemia de COVID-19. Ciente de sua missão institucional, a Escola, em parceria com diversas Entidades Estudantis, preparou uma cartilha tira-dúvidas para auxiliar na informação da população acerca de como obter o Auxílio Emergencial do Governo Federal (Lei 13.982/2020).

Die Nachholtermine stehen noch nicht fest. Brandauer wird voraussichtlich in seiner ersten Vorlesung wie bereits geplant über das Thema „Als Poet im Widerstand – Zeitgenosse Heinrich Heine“ referieren. Die beiden nun verschobenen Vorlesungen des renommierten österreichischen Schauspielers sind mit dem Titel „Liebe, Revolution, Europa“ überschrieben. Auch ein Seminar für Studierende mit dem Gastprofessor ist traditionsgemäß Bestandteil der Professur.

SMEX has developed a hotline to mitigate new threats to digital civic space in Lebanon. We provide technical advice and assistance to civil society groups, activists, lawyers, journalists, vulnerable groups, and human rights defenders in order to improve their digital security practices to stay safe online. SMEX is recruiting Digital[...]

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