Cada semana en la cuenta de Instagram @expertamente, científicos conversan sobre la pandemia con los actores Javiera Contador y Francisco Pérez Bannen, abordando diversas temáticas ligadas al Covid-19. ¿El objetivo?

Utilizando inteligencia artificial, integrantes del Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM), se encuentran aplicando estas medidas en el centro de comando hospitalario de dicho establecimiento, el que se encuentra en desarrollo y a partir del cual buscan apoyar las decisiones de las unidades clínicas para anticiparse a los escenarios.

Las políticas públicas y su comunicación, el impacto de los medios en la salud mental y la cultura en el actual contexto, son algunos de los temas que abordará cada lunes y viernes el ciclo "Diálogos en Tiempos de COVID19", organizado por el Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen.Ante la necesidad de comunicar la crisis, las transformaciones y los horizontes de sentido que pueden prefigurarse en el marco de la pandemia y crisis sanitaria global, la Dirección de Extensión y Comunicaciones del Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen (ICEI) está desarrollando el

Have you found yourself having to work from home during the COVID crisis when you would have previously gone to ‘work’, whether in an office, co-worker space or another kind of environment?

​Researchers at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT University are conducting a research project to examine the role of digital technology and practices for Australian households who have had to work from home during the COVID pandemic.

This project explores the way mobile devices and networked connectivity are embedded in the routinized night-time practices and situational awareness of urban pedestrians. More specifically, through digital and haptic ethnography we investigate how mobile interfaces affect the perception of safety and risk in urban space, particularly at night, and detail how mobile devices are embodied as tools for connection, comfort and safety.

On the 30th of April 2020, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) blocked the sale of the Public Interest Registry (PIR) to a private equity firm, Ethos Capital. The sale was announced by the Internet Society (ISOC) in November 2019. While on the face of it, the sale seemed like a routine transaction, […]

The court agreed with the petitioners that the government was going against previously laid down principles – and then did nothing about it. By Shrutanjaya Bhardwaj This piece first appeared on the Wire on May 14, 2020 On May 11, the Supreme Court rejected a petition seeking the restoration of 4G internet services in the union territory of […]

Today, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees voted to ratify new trust and safety standards for Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia projects. The standards, as outlined in a new Community Culture Statement, provide direction and priority to address harassment and incivility within the Wikimedia movement and create welcoming, inclusive, harassment-free spaces in which people can contribute productively and debate constructively.
Specifically, the Board has tasked the Foundation with:

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.

Webinar | Transparência e controle das compras públicas emergenciais durante a pandemia17h00O Evento: DIREITO E A CRISE DO CORONAVÍRUS - A contribuição do sistema jurídico para o enfrentamento da pandemia e a superação de seus efeitos econômicos e sociais
A Fundação Getulio Vargas, por meio de suas escolas de direito FGV Direito SP e FGV Direito Rio, realiza uma série de webinars com o objetivo de debater as questões jurídicas relacionadas à crise da pandemia do coronavírus.
Em 28/05, o debate terá como tema

Webinar | Impacto da Covid-19 nos serviços públicos essenciais: regulação, equilíbrio econômico e financeiro e continuidade17h00O Evento: DIREITO E A CRISE DO CORONAVÍRUS - A contribuição do sistema jurídico para o enfrentamento da pandemia e a superação de seus efeitos econômicos e sociais
A Fundação Getulio Vargas, por meio de suas escolas de direito FGV Direito SP e FGV Direito Rio, realiza uma série de webinars com o objetivo de debater as questões jurídicas relacionadas à crise da pandemia do coronavírus.

Keep working: In recent months, several Internet Society Chapters have focused on helping people to keep working during COVID-19 lockdowns. The Benin Chapter recently published a guide to remote work, with recommendations for videoconferencing apps, project management software, and file storage services.

While we’re publishing a lot, here at the Institute of Network Cultures, trying to facilitate critical reflection on the corona crisis with diaries and essays from around the world, we’re also planning a restart of INC so that we’ll have space and resources for new urgent projects and research networks in this corona period/economic crisis.
As you may have noticed, we’ve just wrapped up our two-year publishing Making Public research project with Here and Now?

Kardiovaskuläre Operationen sollen die Lebensqualität von Patienten verbessern, so dass diese nach dem Eingriff im besten Fall wieder ein normales Leben führen können. Doch auch nach einem medizinisch erfolgreichen Eingriff sind manche Patienten immer noch beeinträchtigt.

An Interview with Johannes Müller by Lorenz Grünewald-Schukalla and Claudia Haas In 2018, an interdisciplinary expert commission comprising nine professors started working on the Third Engagement Report, titled The Future of Civic Society: Young Engagement in the Digital Age. The expert commission was chaired by Jeanette Hofmann, director of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for…

Como parte de su labor profesional en dicha repartición pública, el profesor de la Escuela de Gobierno y Gestión Pública del Instituto de Asuntos Públicos (INAP), Felipe Malgüe, es parte del grupo desplegado para velar que las empresas cumplan con las medidas de higiene y seguridad para proteger a sus trabajadores en el contexto de la pandemia.“La primera inspección que hice con relación a esta pandemia, cuando estaban comenzando los primeros contagios en Chile, fue la que más me impactó”, relata Felipe Malgüe, profesor del INAP. Esto porque “las y los trab

This post first appeared on Times of India on May 12, 2020 The Supreme Court on Monday pronounced its order in the Foundation of Media Professionals v. Union Territory of J&K (for the restoration of 4G services in Jammu and Kashmir). The Court did not allow for the restoration of services – nor did it engage with […]

Few things in the COVID-verse have been as polarising as contact tracing apps. Gamechangers, or solutions in search of a problem? Centralized or decentralized? Complementary to human contact tracers, or substitutes?
In this session of When The Music’s we bring together:

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.