Con el financiamiento del Programa Tecnológico Estratégico de CORFO, el Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica (DIMEC) de nuestro plantel, implementará durante cinco años una iniciativa compuesta por ocho proyectos, y cuyo objetivo general es el desarrollo, escalamiento y comercialización de soluciones tecnológicas que permitan avanzar desde la manufactura tradicional a una manufactura avanzada.“Programa de Innovación en Manufactura Avanzada” es el título de la propuesta presentada por el DIMEC de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, que se adjudicó

As data analytics have improved, the massive amounts of data that companies acquire from their customers has only gained in economic value. In the corporate world of today, this data can be a real asset for companies. However, as today’s news, that the records of over 500 million guests of Marriott International’s Starwood division hotels were involved in a data breach, makes clear, corporate thinking about the value of customer data needs to be reevaluated.

As barriers to entry start to fall, the Internet of Things (IoT) industry could provide Africa with an opportunity to build a brighter economic future.
Several countries are already establishing tech hubs that could supply the infrastructure to fuel IoT, and while there is still a wide gap between the haves and have-nots of Internet access, with more than 60 per cent of Africa still offline, it’s easy to build a case for connectivity.

Die schönsten Liebesszenen der Opernliteratur, dargeboten von Orchester und Chor der Heinrich-Heine-Universität sowie Solisten der Oper Düsseldorf

Catherine Stihler has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of Open Knowledge International.
Catherine has years of experience in the creation and sharing of knowledge on the global stage. She will join the OKI team in February, and will stand down as an MEP at the end of January after an extraordinary career in EU policy-making spanning nearly 20 years.

Edited by Paige Shipman and Nick Buxton, the following text is republished from the Transnational Institute’s website.

Jason Davidson: Digital agriculture, broadly defined as the use of mass amounts of data to influence decision-making on farms, has incredible potential to make farms more economically and ecologically sustainable.  However, it also poses risks to the privacy, profitability and independence of farmers.

Con motivo de la conmemoración del primer aniversario de la Ley de Desmunicipalización, este 27 de noviembre fue presentado en el ex Congreso Nacional el libro "Nueva Educación Pública". La obra, coordinada por el académico de la Universidad de Chile, Cristián Bellei, repasa los hitos que antecedieron a la reforma actualmente en curso y proyecta el futuro de la educación pública.“El proceso de transición para instalar la Nueva Educación Pública, de enorme complejidad como puede anticiparse, está previsto hasta el año 2025.

El académico de la Universidad de Chile y Premio Nacional de Ciencias Exactas 2015, fue reconocido por el organismo en la categoría Astronomía, Ciencias de la Tierra y del Espacio.

El impacto de la internacionalización en la calidad de los planteles, la dinámica de cooperación como un imperativo y los desafíos asociados a estos procesos fueron los ejes del III Seminario "Internacionalización de la Educación Superior: Calidad y Cooperación", organizado por el Consejo de Rectores de las Universidades Chilenas (CRUCH) y el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores.

Last month, the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia community members in Jordan, and Hashemite University—one of the most esteemed higher education institutions in Jordan—signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to advance cultural cooperation and access to free knowledge resources in the Arabic language. It is the first MOU of its type signed with any university in the Middle East.

Maintaining the privacy of one’s personal information — one’s choice of when to disclose it and to whom, how one maintains control over it, and the risks of disclosure — is one of the most important social issues of the internet era. For the past decade, privacy researchers have focused on several domains, including: documenting public opinion about privacy attitudes and expectations; understanding how user interfaces affect disclosure; and focusing on understanding interpersonal privacy dynamics within social media settings, to name a few.December 12, 2018Berkeley School of Information

In this essay, we explore how personalization works for and against people. Personalization is just a tool. Society needs to pay attention to what is being personalized and to what and whose ends.

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On November 23rd 2018, Pim van den Berg published Execute Order 66: How Star Wars Memes Became Indebted to Fascist Dictatorship on the INC website. In line with The Case Against the Jedi Order, Pim’s text is critical of the politics of Star Wars meme culture.

Die von den beiden Düsseldorfer Medizinstudentinnen Anna Mokwa und Verena Bormann gegründete Initiative „HHU for Africa - Students United to help.“ sammelt Spenden für langfristig angelegte nachhaltige Hilfsprojekte in Äthiopien und unterstützt mit dem Ziel der „Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe - Fluchtursachen bekämpfen“ Entwicklungsprojekte in den Bereichen Landwirtschaft, Wasser, Bildung, Gesundheit und Einkommen.

Le droit à la vie privée recèle plusieurs facettes et marque tous les champs du droit. Le droit à la vie privée en droit québécois et canadien est un ouvrage privilégié pour bien comprendre sa portée et son application dans notre société contemporaine où il est fréquemment invoqué.

En voyant le tapis d’écrans plats, les caméras rotatives et la régie son, on croirait s’être perdu dans les couloirs de l’école d’ingénieurs, mais c’est bien l’auditoire de la faculté de droit où le rendez-vous a été fixé. Cet après-midi, Karim Benyekhlef y discute avec des partenaires venus d’HEC Paris et du Centre Perelman de philosophie du droit de l’Université libre de Bruxelles. Pendant ce temps-là, derrière une vitre teintée, des informaticiens s’affairent au milieu d’imposants serveurs.

„Roland Oetker engagiert sich seit über 20 Jahren für die Belange  der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf“, würdigt Rektorin Prof. Dr. Anja Steinbeck den neuen Ehrensenator: „Es ist mir eine besonders große Freude, dass die Universität diesem langjährigen Freund und Unterstützer nun ihre größte Ehrung zuteilwerden lässt.“

By Stefaan Verhulst and Andrew J. Zahuranec
Four Shifts and Innovations in Sharing and Leveraging Private Assets and Expertise for the Public Good
For years, public-private partnerships (PPPs) have promised to help governments do more for less. Yet, the discussion and experimentation surrounding PPPs often focus on outdated models and narratives, and the field of experimentation has not fully embraced the opportunities provided by an increasingly networked and data-rich private sector.

This blog has been reposted from the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany blog