Autoridades, académicos e investigadores de la Universidad de Chile expresan sus expectativas y sus visiones sobre los desafíos que se abren en materia de inversión, relevancia y participación en el fomento de la ciencia, tras la creación de esta nueva institucionalidad. A continuación, las opiniones de los académicos y académicas María Teresa Ruiz, Jorge Babul, Francisco Martínez, Arturo Squella y Andrés Couve.

Más de setenta serán las agrupaciones folklóricas de diferentes nacionalidades y danzas que participarán en la séptima versión del Día Mundial del Folklore el próximo 25 de agosto, evento que comenzará en el Parque San Borja y continuará por la principal arteria de la capital como pasacalle. La actividad, organizada por el Ballet Folklórico Antumapu de la Universidad de Chile, es completamente gratuita y abierta a la comunidad.

Do you have a great idea about DNSSEC or DANE that you’d like to share with the wider community? If so, and you’re planning to be in Barcelona, Spain for ICANN63 in October 2018, submit a proposal to present your idea at the DNSSEC Workshop!

Aula aberta: Novos Desafios do Direito Societário19h00O Evento: A FGV DIREITO RIO apresenta a Aula aberta: Novos Desafios do Direito Societário que integra o programa do curso Direito Societário e Mercado de Capitais. O curso visa aprofundar o conhecimento na área de direito societário, especialmente no que se refere às sociedades limitadas, anônimas, bem como à compreensão do funcionamento do mercado de valores mobiliários, sua regulação e fiscalização pela Comissão de Valores Mobiliários.

Número de vagas: 2

The 2018 Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) which was held in Port Vila, Vanuatu from August 13-16 came to an exciting close after a week of valuable dialogue on Internet Governance issues in the region.  This was the first time the APrIGF was held in the Pacific and the local hosts, Vanuatu’s Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO), Vanuatu Telecommunications and Radiocommunications Regulator (TRR), and the local people of Vanuatu showed the APrI

Es richtet sich an Psychologinnen und Psychologen, Hebammen, Gynäkologeninnen und Gynäkologen sowie Ärztinnen und Ärzte angrenzender Fachbereiche. Das Symposium unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Tanja Fehm, Direktorin der Klinik für Frauenheilkunde des UKD, und Dr. Nora Schaal, Institut für Experimentelle Psychologie der HHU, gibt einen Einblick in die aktuelle geburtshilfliche Forschung zur Verbesserung der Rahmenbedingungen für Schwangerschaft und Geburt.

Less than two months had passed since the General Data Protection Regulation entered into force on 25 May 2018, and yet its impact could already be seen everywhere. In addition to a flood of emails asking for our (renewed) consent, countless new or re-formulated data protection policies “emerged”, while the public debate hailed a “new…
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Paper by Helen Nissenbaum, Sebastian Benthall, Anupam Datta, Michael Carl Tschantz, and Piot Mardziel: “Machine learning over big data poses challenges for our conceptualization of privacy. Such techniques can discover surprising and counteractive associations that take innocent looking data and turns it into important inferences about a person. For example, the buying carbon monoxide monitors has been linked to paying credit card bills, while buying chrome-skull car accessories predicts not doing so.

Samer Hassan, researcher at Harvard University’s Berkman Center and UCM in Madrid, who recently received a 1.5M€ grant to build blockchain-based democratic and sustainable organizations for the collaborative economy (p2pmodels.eu), leads a working session exploring how blockchain technologies, can be utilized to create new ways to cooperate: building new commons-oriented, blockchain-driven initiatives which incorporate Elinor Ostrom’s 8 Principles for Managing a Co

Im Rahmen der Tagung „Physiognomien des Lebens: Anthropologie, Medizin, Kultur“ (Or­ganisation: Prof. Dr. Vittoria Borsò; Jun.-Prof. Sieglinde Borvitz; Dr. Luca Viglialoro), die in Kooperation mit der Universität Palermo vom 12. bis 14. September im Haus der Universität stattfindet, werden philosophisch-literarische Reflexionen über Körperbewe­gungen und Körpermerkmale, welche aus der wissenschaftlichen Tradition der sogenann­ten Physiognomik stammen, analysiert.

Shweta Mohandas was a panelist at the event, "Celebrating One Year of the Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India Judgment", organised by Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, and the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi. It took place on Friday, 24 August 2018 at India International Centre, New Delhi.

Google once directed you to information. Today, it’s often the source of information, using data you and others have shared, often without you realising it. Public knowledge goes where Google takes it. And 20 years on, not everyone’s happy with the journey.
The article by Rachel Lopez was published in Hindustan Times on August 26, 2018. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.

Report by Sarah Timmis, Luke Heselwood and Eleonora Harwich (for Reform UK): “This report demonstrates the potential of data sharing to transform the delivery of public services and improve outcomes for citizens. It explores how government can overcome various challenges to ‘get data right’ and enable better use of personal data within and between public-sector organisations.
Ambition meets reality

Book by Kevin Werbach: “The blockchain entered the world on January 3, 2009, introducing an innovative new trust architecture: an environment in which users trust a system—for example, a shared ledger of information—without necessarily trusting any of its components. The cryptocurrency Bitcoin is the most famous implementation of the blockchain, but hundreds of other companies have been founded and billions of dollars invested in similar applications since Bitcoin’s launch.

A recente política brasileira para a transformação digital

La implementación de las reformas y el futuro del sistema de educación superior chileno fueron los temas que marcaron la cita.

El ex parlamentario y abogado, quien formara parte del "Grupo de los 13" -facción de la Democracia Cristiana que rechazó tempranamente el Golpe de Estado de 1973-, acérrimo defensor de los derechos humanos, y trabajador de instancias fundamentales como la Vicaría de la Solidaridad y el Comité Pro Paz, murió este lunes 20 de agosto.

29.08.2018 - 19:00 - 20:30 Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Französische Straße 9 Berlin