In June 2014, activists in Barcelona formed a citizen’s platform to stand for election and “win back” the city from its centre-right city council, which the movement saw as having sold out the city to business interests. With little money or experience, the movement ousted the conservative political establishment, and is starting to bring change using a dynamic model of citizen engagement.
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Author(s): Beth Van SchaackPublication Date: October 1, 2018Publication Type: Other WritingWith little fanfare, the State Department recently posted on its website the results of an empirical study of the acute violence in Myanmar against the Rohingya Muslims.
Con el conversatorio "A 50 años de la Reforma del 68: la voz de sus protagonistas" continúa el ciclo de actividades "De la revolución estudiantil a la revolución de los feminismos", iniciado el pasado 6 de septiembre con el nuevo número de revista Anales "Mujeres insurrectas".
Los académicos de las facultades de Artes y de Odontología recibieron el galardón en las categorías de Artes, Letras y Humanidades y Ciencia y Tecnología, respectivamente.
La directora de Igualdad de Género de la Universidad de Chile, junto a representantes de la Comisión de Igualdad del Consejo de Rectores y de la Agrupación de Universidades Regionales (AUR), participaron del Claustro Universitario en Género en la Universidad de Magallanes (UMAG), donde compartieron experiencias y desafíos en la materia al interior de las instituciones de educación superior chilenas.Con participación de estudiantes, autoridades e integrantes de los estamentos funcionarios y académicos, la Universidad de Magallanes (UMAG) realizó el 10 de septiembre u
La necesidad de consensuar un marco conceptual común y potenciar la investigación sobre acciones concretas para disminuir el abandono son algunas de las claves que plantean los investigadores del Programa Académico de Bachillerato Felipe Munizaga y Beatriz Cifuentes, quienes expusieron el resultado de sus investigaciones en la Conferencia Europea de Investigación Educacional 2018. El encuentro, que este año se realizó en Bolzano, Italia, reúne a alrededor de 2000 delegados de 40 países con el objetivo de promover la investigación en educación.
Los 18 planteles que integran el Consorcio de Universidades del Estado de Chile (Cuech) desplegarán una intensa agenda de trabajo el segundo semestre de este año, la que incluye la realización por cuarto año consecutivo del "Foro de las Artes" en la Casa de Bello.En el marco del Plan Plurianual 2018-2020 aprobado por el directorio del Consorcio de Universidades del Estado (Cuech), la Red de Arte, Cultura y Patrimonio desarrollará una potente agenda de trabajo el segundo semestre de este 2018, informó Mónica Quiroz, directora del Convenio Marco Objetivo en R
On Sunday, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Senator Scott Wiener’s SB 822, the first state-level law that comprehensively restores all of the net neutrality protections of the 2015 Open Internet Order.
Here’s my statement:
“Today was a historic moment in the battle to bring back net neutrality in the United States. SB 822 comprehensively restores to California all of the net neutrality protections from the 2015 Open Internet Order that the FCC repealed in 2017.
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BEK – AUTONOMOUS SPACE FOR FREE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES
When talking about our story, first of all, we want to emphasize that one day, hopefully soon, this will really become OUR story. A story of all included, anyone who wants to participate, a story of a community that builds its own part of a creative and self-sustainable space, a story of no one left aside. We want to make a new spot for all of us who don’t have a place to create and invest their time into, and for us who don’t have money or access to social and cultural programs that we can be a part of.
Book by Harris Gleckman: “Multistakeholder governance is proposed as the way forward in global governance. For some leaders in civil society and government who are frustrated with the lack of power of the UN system and multilateralism it is seen as an attractive alternative; others, particularly in the corporate world, see multistakeholder governance as offering a more direct hand and potentially a legitimate role in national and global governance.
R.I.Ogie, R.J.Clarke, H.Forehead and P.Perez in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems: “The application of crowdsourced social media data in flood mapping and other disaster management initiatives is a burgeoning field of research, but not one that is without challenges.
This morning, I did what I always, lamentably, do, which is wake up and check Twitter. I noticed that the account for MIT, where I work as an admissions officer and research affiliate, had tweeted a story about Math Prize for Girls, an annual competition, hosted on campus last weekend, for women with an affinity for STEM. I’m a longtime fan and supporter of Math Prize. In fact, I had spoken at the competition, giving a […]
Nithin Coca: As tensions between tech companies and their surrounding communities in cities like San Francisco, Seattle, and Austin continue to escalate, there’s an effort underway to find meaningful, collaborative solutions.
Page Type: newsCopyrightX is a course on Copyright Law, developed by Professor William Fisher III at Harvard Law School and first offered online in the spring semester of 2013. The course explores the current law of copyright and the ongoing debates concerning how that law should be reformed.
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