Other News from Participating Centers

Press Note 3 of 2020: FDI Policy and the Expanding Sphere of National Security

By Sharngan Aravindakshan India recently joined the list of countries that have placed restrictions on foreign investment to fend off predatory investments during the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. It announced that investors from countries sharing a land border with it would henceforth have to invest only through the government approval route. India’s decision follows on the […]

Der Einfluss von COVID-19 auf Emotionen und Gedächtnis

Die Fähigkeit, sich an vergangene Ereignisse zu erinnern, ist für Menschen sehr wichtig. Erinnerungen bestimmen die Identität des Menschen und sein Handeln. Erinnerungen sind jedoch keine „Videoaufzeichnungen“ – sie verändern sich im Laufe der Zeit und unterliegen Verzerrungen.

2020 Announcement of the final list of successful candidates

Ranking Scimago 2020: U. de Chile consolida 12 años de liderazgo

La Casa de Bello nuevamente fue la primera institución de educación superior de Chile y una de las mejores de Latinoamérica en una de las clasificaciones universitarias de mayor prestigio en el mundo. La medición destacó además al Hospital Clínico de la U.

Ricardo Ffrench-Davis: "Lo primero es la vida de la población"

El profesor de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios y Premio Nacional de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, Ricardo Ffrench-Davis, fue el invitado de la nueva transmisión vía streaming de la Universidad de Chile sobre COVID-19. El impacto económico de la pandemia en el país, la evaluación sobre las medidas implementadas por el gobierno para palear la difícil situación que enfrentan las personas y el mundo productivo, y los desafíos que se vienen por delante, fueron los temas que analizó el experto, quien respondió en línea las consultas de quienes se unieron a la transmisión.

Médicos realizan podcast sobre salud en tiempos de COVID-19

Tres médicas y médicos egresados de la U. de Chile son los encargados de la producción del programa "Cuarentena en el mejor sistema de salud del planeta", disponible en la plataforma Spotify. Además de sus labores asistenciales como profesionales de salud, Javiera Menay, Cristian González y Jonathan Troncoso se han tomado en serio uno de los aspectos claves para el abordaje de la pandemia: la información directa, simple y clara.

Cómo hacer un huerto con poco espacio en la pandemia

La profesora Cecilia Baginsky, de la Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas de la U. de Chile, entregó algunas recomendaciones para quienes deseen hacer sus propios huertos en sus casas o departamentos, en momentos en que la pandemia ha generado gran interés en poder obtener verduras frescas de manera más sencilla.Las dificultades generadas por la pandemia para comprar alimentos, en particular verduras frescas, ha impulsado a que muchas personas se planteen la posibilidad de generar sus propios cultivos en sus hogares.

Rector Vivaldi participó de Comisión de Educación de la Cámara

La máxima autoridad de la U. de Chile expuso ante las y los integrantes de la Comisión de Educación de la Cámara de Diputados, en representación del Consorcio de Universidades del Estado de Chile (CUECH), las medidas adoptadas por los planteles estatales para mejorar las condiciones de continuidad a través de medios remotos en el contexto de la emergencia sanitaria.Ante la Comisión de Educación de la Cámara de Diputados expuso este martes 21 de abril el Rector de la U.

Massive and Microscopic: Making sense of COVID-19 Call for Proposals

Making sense of lived experience during a pandemic

Wanted: New Tools To Tame the Wild West of the Internet

Join our free virtual Frictionless Data workshop on 20th May

Join us on 20th May at 4pm BST/10am CDT for a Frictionless Data workshop led by the Reproducible Research fellows. This 90-minute long workshop will cover an introduction to the open source Frictionless Data tools. Participants will learn about data wrangling, including how to document metadata, package data into a datapackage, write a schema to describe data and validate data. The workshop is suitable for beginners and those looking to learn more about using Frictionless Data. It will be presented in English, but you can ask questions in English or Spanish.

Empowering grassroots organisations to demand infrastructure data in Malawi: Open Data Day 2020 report

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.

Kids Need Encryption Too

With most of the world on lockdown, children are likely spending more time than ever online. Between virtual classrooms and keeping up with friends on social media, many kids are depending on the Internet to maintain a semblance of normal life amidst the global health crisis.

While parents may worry about how this might affect their children’s well-being, experts have warned that the surge in screen time could also expose kids to safety risks online more often.

Diversidade nas organizações: Clínica do NPJ atende startup de educação que atua pela diversidade e inclusão nas empresas

No dia 27 de abril, a Clínica LAJUNT (Laboratório de Assessoria Jurídica a Novas Tecnologias) do Núcleo de Prática Jurídica (NPJ) da FGV Direito Rio atendeu a Blend Edu (blend-edu.com/), uma startup que desenvolve experiências educacionais para promover a empatia, diversidade e inclusão nas organizações.

Technology in service of public interest

With the continuing crises that Lebanon and the world are facing, we at SMEX have sought ways in which free knowledge, which is an integral part of the ecosystem of digital rights, can contribute to addressing the emerging problems. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, SMEX has invested in[...]

Deadline extended: 26 June 2020! Call for abstracts: Special issue IPR on ‘Governing “European values” inside data flows’

Certification of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already used in many sectors. In order to exploit its economic and social potential, it is essential to strengthen trust in AI systems and the processes and decisions associated with them. A possible key prerequisite for this is the certification of AI systems.

How Contact Tracing Apps Can Foil Both COVID-19 and Big Brother

Do we really need to sacrifice privacy for health in the fight against covid-19? The DP-3T protocol can save lives without furthering surveillance capitalism.

What does living alone mean in times of Corona?

Even though the Duden dictionary defines "alone" and "lonely" as synonyms, most people distinguish in their language use positively alone and negatively lonely. For a long time there was the image of the scholar who, in the solitude of his ivory tower, surrenders to thinking and can only become creative in this way. This romantic form of loneliness belongs to the human being just as much as being together.

We Are Not the Virus. We Are the Kamikazes.

I understand why environmentalists have concluded that Covid-19 is nature’s way of repelling human activity. If we’re going to keep mucking around with Earth’s biodiversity, climate, topsoil, oceans, and air, eventually nature’s going to respond. In this view, the virus is nature’s own antibodies, repelling human invasion.