Evento será nesta quinta-feira (07), das 17h às 18h, no canal do Youtube da FGV
As Escolas de Direito da Fundação Getulio Vargas – FGV Direito SP e FGV Direito Rio – realizarão, nesta quinta-feira (07), um webinar sobre as medidas emergenciais para a recuperação das empresas por conta da crise da pandemia do coronavírus.
Cássio Cavalli, professor da FGV Direito SP, moderará o debate dos convidados Alexandre Camara, sócio do BTG responsável pela área de Special Situations, e Marcelo Gomes, diretor geral e SBU Head responsável pela Alvarez & Marsal Brasil.

Auch wenn schwangere Frauen grundsätzlich nicht zur Risikogruppe bezüglich der Corona-Pandemie zählen, stellen sich viele Fragen für die werdenden Mütter: Ist das Covid-19 Virus gefährlich für mich und das Kind? Darf mein Partner bei der Geburt dabei sein? Wie bereite ich mich jetzt bestmöglich auf die Geburt vor? Werden die Großeltern das neue Enkelkind besuchen können?

Every day, people around the world are caring for their neighbors by bringing them online. A lifeline for so many, the global COVID-19 has shown us that the Internet is now more important than ever. Yet nearly half the world’s population still has no access.

Driven by the desire to connect their communities in any way they can, people around the world are getting involved and building networks in new and innovative ways that complement traditional Internet/telecommunication access solutions. Do-it-yourself solutions built by the community, for the community.

Jan Wilm ist Schriftsteller und Übersetzer, unter anderem der Werke von Maggie Nelson. Er studierte Anglistik und Amerikanistik an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, wo er mit einer Arbeit über J. M. Coetzee promovierte. Seine Essays und Literaturkritiken erscheinen in der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung, der Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, der Los Angeles Review of Books und dem Times Literary Supplement. 2016 erschien von ihm das Buch The Slow Philosophy of J. M. Coetzee, 2019 sein Roman Winterjahrbuch. 

A new INC essay, Coronavirus and Web 2.0: Philosophical Questions and Answers by Lorenza Saettone, now available, in Italian, here as pdf and here as an e-pub file. Thanks a lot to Tommaso Campagna for the design and technical work.

Countries with a high peak in Google searches for the term coronavirus tend to reduce their COVID-19 infection rates. Does it make sense to associate digital information search with the containment of the pandemic? COVID-19 and the boom in digital content generation At this point, COVID-19 hardly needs any introduction. It has not just unleashed…

Corona Time has brought the eery experience of becoming like a pawn on a chess board. Suddenly where we go, what we do, what we wear, who we meet and why are decided by somebody else. Here in Berlin, our youngest son now goes to school on Tuesday and Thursday mornings while his best friend goes on Mondays and Thursdays. As of this week. Maybe next week it will open up more. Maybe it won’t. Meanwhile our three other children, in different schools, are off until August.

Preserving online content documenting atrocities – in an atmosphere of censorship of social media, both by platforms themselves and governments – is a challenge. By Sharngan Aravindakshan and Radhika Kapoor This post originally appeared on TheWire.in on April 27, 2020 Grisly video footage showing police personnel wearing riot gear, coercing five bruised, bloodied men to sing the […]

El Mapa de Movilidad de Personas permite monitorear los niveles de movilidad de las personas presentando medianas de los kilómetros recorridos por día a nivel de regiones, provincias o estados de América Latina y el Caribe, a partir de datos georreferenciados y anonimizados de celulares, comparándolos con una semana de referencia pre-coronavirus.Las medidas de aislamiento social que se han implementado en el mundo debido al nuevo coronavirus han traído consecuencias para la movilidad de las personas.

Un equipo del Departamento de Kinesiología de la Facultad de Medicina está a cargo de estos materiales, desarrollados en conjunto a organizaciones sociales y profesionales del área.

El rector de la Casa de Bello dio a conocer junto al ministro del Interior, Gonzalo Blumel, el anuncio que busca implementarse con criterios de intersectorialidad y territorialidad.Hasta el palacio de La Moneda llegó el rector de la Universidad de Chile, Ennio Vivaldi, para participar de una nueva reunión de la Mesa Social COVID-19, integrada por autoridades de gobierno, universitarias, alcaldes y el Colegio Médico.

Nuestra esencial vulnerabilidad, tanto física como psicológica, se ha incrementado radical y desigualmente por la pandemia del COVID-19. Esta idea, sencilla de entender y repetir, tiene sin embargo un enorme potencial filosófico, que fácilmente puede pasarse por alto. Si nos permitimos encarar nuestra vulnerabilidad y reconocer cómo ésta se encuentra articulada institucional y tecnológicamente, el universo de preguntas que podemos abrir para nuestra reflexión e investigación es insondable.

Registration is required for this free webinar event. The Zoom meeting link will be emailed to you shortly before the event begins. 

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.

A FGV DIREITO RIO abriu inscrições, até o dia 08 de maio, para a IX Edição do curso Direito para Jornalistas. Serão oferecidas 50 vagas. O curso, que acontecerá via plataforma ZOOM, com aulas ao vivo à distância, ocorrerá no período de 11 a 22 de maio, com encontros diários de 1h30min. O programa é gratuito e aberto a profissionais de todo o Brasil, com entrega de certificado ao final.

An invasion of sovereignty is not the same as an act of war. India should take cautious countermeasures. This post originally appeared on Hindustan Times on November 14, 2019 The news of cyber intrusions into the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, and the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) shook the cyber security apparatus. Pukhraj Singh, a […]

Open Positions @ MC&I

Das CHE-Ranking wird vom Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung mit der Wochenzeitung Die ZEIT durchgeführt und erhebt dazu umfassend Daten. Das CHE schreibt: „Die Jura-Studierenden an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf urteilen sehr gut über ihre allgemeine Studiensituation. Die Uni bekommt von ihren Jura-Studierenden mehrfach sehr gute Bewertungen, u.a. für die Betreuung durch die Lehrenden, den Wissenschaftsbezug und für die Angebote zur Berufsorientierung.“ Das CHE-Ranking soll Abiturienten eine Orientierung bieten, die sich für einen Studienort entscheiden wollen.