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Mascarillas en verano: ¿Cómo usarlas con las altas temperaturas?

Junto a mantener el distanciamiento social y la higiene constante de manos, el uso de mascarillas es una de las principales medidas para prevenir nuevos contagios de COVID-19.

Entrevista a la profesora Claudia Zapata

"Probablemente algo que nos ha jugado en contra, es que este estallido nos pilla en un momento en que los distintos movimientos sociales y organizaciones estaban a la baja; que ninguno tenía liderazgos potentes", plantea la académica del Centro de Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos (CECLA) de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, quien analiza el escenario político actual, el remezón irremontable iniciado con el estallido social -marcado por "el hartazgo transversal con los niveles de abuso"-, y las potencialidades emancipatorias abiertas desde entonces.

What's New in the US Crypto Wars

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How Wikipedia Is Preparing For The 2020 U.S. Election

If the internet is the most important battleground in next week’s U.S. presidential election, then Wikipedia is the Web’s neutral zone.
Last month, U.S. federal agencies issued a public service announcementwith a warning that bad actors could use the internet to spread disinformation in an effort to discredit the legitimacy of the voting process.

Midis-conférences des Jeunes Chercheurs.es du CRDP (Nouvelles)

La coordination scientifique des midis-conférences des jeunes chercheurs du CRDP est heureuse de vous annoncer qu’à la suite des délibérations du comité de sélection, quatorze (14) propositions de communication (cf liste ci-dessous) ont été retenues pour l’édition de cette année. Voici la liste :

Memory for the Future Symposium: Thinking with Bernard Stiegler

Leiden University Center for Continental Philosophy (LCCP) and the Institute for Science in Society of the Radboud University of Nijmegen welcome all interested persons to a symposium on Bernard Stiegler’s work on 3-4 December 2020.

Building an AI Governance Framework for India, Part III

Embedding Principles of Privacy, Transparency and Accountability This post has been authored by Jhalak M. Kakkar and Nidhi Singh In July 2020, the NITI Aayog released a draft Working Document entitled “Towards Responsible AI for All” (hereafter ‘NITI Aayog Working Document’ or ‘Working Document’). This Working Document was initially prepared for an expert consultation that […]

CDI Public Talk: Mapping the Covid-19 App Space

On the 9th of November, our friends from the Centre for Digital Inquiry, Warwick’s hub for critical digital research, organize a public talk about their ‘COVID-19 App Store and Data Flow Ecologies’ project.

One Year After October 17 Uprising in Lebanon: Summons and Arrests for Online Speech Increase

One Year Since the October 17 Uprising in Lebanon: Summons and Arrests for Online Speech It’s been one year since the October 17 uprising in Lebanon, which was ignited over the imposition of a “WhatsApp tax.” During this time, Lebanon witnessed an increase in summons and arrests resulting from online[...]

132° Mercoledì di Nexa - Intelligenza Naturale e Intelligenza Artificiale: Riflessioni tra Scienza ed Etica

Page Type: Eventmercoledi9 Settembre 2020
Marcello Ienca (ETH Zurich)
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Poll Worker Numbers Have Many Election Officials Breathing Sigh Of Relief

Ransomware can interfere with elections and fuel disinformation – basic cybersecurity precautions are key to minimizing the damage

Government computer systems in Hall County, Georgia, including a voter signature database, were hit by a ransomware attack earlier this fall in the first known ransomware attack on election infrastructure during the 2020 presidential election. Thankfully, county officials reported that the voting process for its citizens was not disrupted.

III Seminário do Projeto Regulação em Números

III Seminário do Projeto Regulação em Números17h00O Evento: Abertura:
Sérgio Guerra (Diretor, FGV Direito Rio)
 
Mesa 1: As Agências Reguladoras em Resposta à Covid-19 (17:00 às 18:15)
 
Moderadora:
Patrícia Sampaio (Professora, FGV Direito Rio)
 
Palestrantes: 
Natasha Salinas (Professora, FGV Direito Rio)
Alessandra Bastos Soares (Diretora, Anvisa)
Alketa Peci (Professora, FGV EBAPE)
 

Franja electoral: ¿Ha logrado conectar con la ciudadanía?

Mientras los comandos por las opciones de "rechazo" y "apruebo" hacen esfuerzos por captar la atención de los votantes con la franja que se transmite diariamente por televisión, académicos de los Institutos de Comunicación e Imagen (ICEI) y de Asuntos Públicos (INAP) de la Universidad de Chile analizan si las propuestas visuales, contenidos y discursos han logrado atraer a quienes deberán presentarse en las urnas el próximo 25 de octubre.

U. de Chile: Hay un 60% menos de atenciones ambulatorias oncológicas

Esta baja afecta principalmente a mujeres, grupos de edades extremas y regiones con mayor tasa de incidencia y mortalidad por coronavirus. Las y los expertos involucrados en el informe advierten sobre los desafíos para recuperar atenciones, cuya postergación podría aumentar el diagnóstico tardío de cánceres.

Físicos chilenos proponen un nuevo y revolucionario tipo de onda

El trabajo fue publicado en la última edición de la revista Communications in nonlinear sciences and numerical simulations.

DataStories Symposium


At the DataStories Symposium 2020 we will explore how people engage with data to create stories.
Data is represented in different ways to allow us to understand and make use of it: in numbers, in text, in visualisations, in interactive stories and other forms. Data stories are relevant to many areas of our life – they are part of the news, of how we engage with science and research, they inform our decisions and they help us explain the world.

What Digital Contact Tracing Can Teach Us About Public Trust, Health Equity, and Governance in the United States

Gut aufgestellt ins neue Semester

Exakt 27.917 Studierende sind bis jetzt (Stand 29.10.2020) an der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) für ein Studium eingeschrieben. Zum Vergleich: Im vergangenen Jahr kurz vor Beginn der Vorlesungen waren es 27.330 gewesen.

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