This article was originally published in The Scotsman.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s invention of the world wide web has transformed modern life, but more work must be done to ensure it continues to be a force for good, writes Catherine Stihler.
At the giant research laboratory in a suburb of Geneva, the innovative ideas produced by the scientists were stored on multiple, incompatible, computers.
Conocer cómo funciona nuestra Casa de Estudios, permitiendo que los nuevos estudiantes se familiaricen con la cultura académica propia de la Universidad, es el objetivo de "Introducción a la vida universitaria", el recién estrenado curso en línea de la Casa de Bello, que se suma a las acciones de la institución para acompañar a sus estudiantes y que está disponible desde este lunes 28 de enero para todos los mechones y mechonas.El curso es impartido a través de la plataforma de Educación Online, y a lo largo de cinco módulos, los estudia
La Plataforma "UAbierta" dictará entre el 19 de marzo y el 22 de abril de este año "Introducción a las Teorías Feministas", curso que busca entregar una revisión crítica de las principales corrientes feministas, desde sus usos y aplicaciones históricas, reconociendo la existencia de múltiples aproximaciones teóricas.Proponer una discusión colectiva para la construcción de un análisis sobre las actuales demandas de género, asuntos de las mujeres, diversidades de género y feministas en Chile, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, de manera de dar cuenta de la es
El informe del Observatorio Docente del CIAE del Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Educación de la Universidad de Chile, concluye que en seis años se triplicó la proporción de matriculados en carreras de Pedagogía de alta acreditación a pesar de la baja que en el mismo período se ha generado en el conjunto de las carreras universitaria de Educación.En un 26,5 por ciento cayó la matrícula de primer año en las carreras universitarias de Educación entre los años 2011 y 2017.
The Internet Society recognises that global deployment of the IPv6 protocol is paramount to accommodating the growth of the Internet. Given the scale at which IPv6 must be deployed, it is also important that the possible security implications of IPv6 are well understood and considered during the design and deployment of IPv6 networks, rather than as an afterthought.
Having data for budgets and spending can allow us to track public money flows in our communities. It can give us insights into how governments plan and focus on programmes, public works, and services. So the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT), along with Open Knowledge International (OKI), have been working on new tools to make this data more useful and easier to understand.
I’ve always been amazed at the things and activities around which commons have been unexpectedly developed – noncommercial theater, humanitarian rescue maps, specialized scientific microscopes. Little did I suspect that I would encounter a commons based on….human excrement.
[…]The last three sections on ethics, aesthetics and complexity might seem theoretical, but, as we saw earlier, to break through to a new way of thinking about our problems, we need to ask deeper questions about the theories that currently inform our practice.
Let me make the theory more palpable by relating it to aspects of the long-term project to promote transformative innovation and the transition towards a regenerative culture on the Mediterranean island of Majorca, where I live.
by Andrew J. Zahuranec and Alexandra Shaw
From left to right: Niels Ploug (Danmarks Statistik), Nick Eng (LinkedIn)Adrienne Schmoeker (City of New York), Brennan Lake (Cuebiq), and Stefaan Verhulst (The GovLab).
As part of our objective to develop new standards to measure media pluralism online, the CMPF is now taking submissions of ideas/blog posts to be published as part of CMPF Discussion Series and for papers to be published on the EUI website or the RSCAS working paper Series. Authors of selected papers will be invited to present their papers and attend a workshop at the EUI in Florence in June on media pluralism in the digital age.
Uncomfortable AI: Inc.com has a story asking 16 “uncomfortable” questions that companies should ask about Artificial Intelligence. Among them: Are your reasons for deploying AI in the best long-term interests of humanity? And, how can we ensure that our behavior is inclusive?
If you follow the IPv6 Maintenance (6man) Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), you may have noticed the 300+ message email thread on an Internet Draft that was recently published on the “Reaction of Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC) to Renumbering Events”.
More Indian women are fighting back against sexual harassment they face over phone calls and text messages, a survey shows.
The blog post by Aria Thaker was published in Quartz India on March 8, 2019. Ambika Tandon was quoted.
On March 7, The GovLab joined New Lab and partners at a sold-out event to celebrate The Circular City, a program that brings together entrepreneurs, city leaders, corporate partners, and university innovators to tackle urban challenges.
As part of the program, we’re excited to announce the launch of Circular Data for a Circular City: Value Propositions for Economic Development—our contribution to New Lab’s Circular City Research Journal.
O post em homenagem a esse 8 de março é coordenado e redigido por nós, mulheres que integramos o IRIS. Reunimos esforços para falar sobre algo essencial às conquistas femininas na governança da internet, meio em que estamos inseridas: os obstáculos que marcam a permanência da desigualdade de gênero e que ainda restam serem enfrentados.
O que há por trás dos obstáculos?
We’re celebrating International Women’s Day this year with great news: The Internet Society welcomes a new Chapter in Lesotho – and the Chapter’s president, vice president, treasurer, secretary, as well as a board member are all talented tech women.
