In late June 2018 I spent a week in the City of Mexico (CDMX), to support the municipal government with a variety of foresight related challenges, through its Laboratorio Para La Ciudad (City Lab).
The Lab was founded and is led by Gabriella Gómez-Mont, as the experimental arm / creative think tank of the Mexico City government, reporting to the Mayor. It is highly innovative in its techniques and strategies for urban development.
There’s just the couple of sessions to highlight on the last day of IETF 102 before we wrap up for the week.
Women and girls are significantly less likely to choose ICT (Information and Communication Technology) studies than men. There are many reasons for this. Barriers to access, but also retention in ICT studies are complex as they are often related not only to economic but also to social and cultural barriers.
A lot of initiatives are being developed worldwide to break these barriers, and at the Internet Society we believe that only if we join efforts we can overcome them and help to close the digital gender gap.
With so many moving parts to advancing Internet access and enabling communities to reach the rest of the world, the biggest key to success, according to this year’s Jonathan B. Postel Award winner, is listening.
Seis puntos contiene la misiva entregada en La Moneda este viernes 6 de julio por parte de integrantes de la Cátedra de Derechos Humanos y la vicerrectora Faride Zeran, acompañados por el vicepresidente de la FECh, Mattías Gallegos, la vocera del Machi Celestino Córdova, Belén Paillal, y estudiantes de la Casa de Bello, documento suscrito también por la Cátedra Indígena en el que emplazan al Ejecutivo a revisar la negativa a la demanda de la autoridad mapuche de visitar su rehue por 48 horas, apelando a la "libertad de culto y el derecho a la salud".
"Caracterización del consumo hídrico y del sistema hidrogeológico en la cuenca de Aculeo, determinación de posibles soluciones y campaña de educación ambiental", es el nombre de la iniciativa encabezada por el profesor de la Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservación de la Naturaleza, Pablo García, proyecto que gracias al Fondo de lnnovación a la Competitividad de decisión regional (FlC-R) ahondará en las razones de la actual crisis que afecta a este lugar.Como un tema crítico que “nunca antes se necesitó estudiar porque como muchos acuíferos en Chile, nunca hubo
La medición, hecha por el prestigioso Academic Ranking Of World Universities (ARWU), indica que la Casa de Bello lidera 19 disciplinas a nivel nacional, de las cuales en ocho es la mejor de Latinoamérica.
The Justice BN Srikrishna Committee, which is drafting a model data protection and privacy law for India, is upset by the timing of recommendations made by the country’s telecom regulator this week, according to a senior member of the panel, as it fears this will delay the submission of its own report, due later this month.
The telecom regulator’s recommendations on data privacy have raised eyebrows over jurisdiction and timing, with IT ministry officials as well as companies questioning the need for it at a time when the government appointed Justice BN Srikrishna committee is in the final stages of drafting the data protection law.
Starting today, community members from Open Knowledge International, Wikimedia Foundation, and Creative Commons, will be facilitating a rotating curation of the @openglam twitter account to highlight and reflect on the impact of “OpenGLAM” (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) in their respective contexts.
The ISOC Regional Director, Dr. Dawit Bekele joined the Internet community of Madagascar on June 15 and 16, 2018 for the inauguration of the ISOC Madagascar Chapter, which is the 35th Chapter of the ISOC.. This inauguration was accompanied by a series of two conferences: the first took place on June 15, 2018 at the Akademia Malagasy on the theme “What kind of Internet do we really want in Madagascar?” And the second on June 16, 2018 at the Hotel du Louvre on the theme “Future of the Internet: Challenges and Opportunities”. Dr.
The GovLab: “The CrowdLaw Catalog is a growing repository of 100 CrowdLaw cases from around the world. The goal of the catalog is to help those wishing to start new or improve existing CrowdLaw projects to learn from one another.
Examples are tagged and searchable by four criteria:
Das Tagungsthema MÄNNER. MACHT. THERAPIE. ist bewusst etwas doppeldeutig gewählt. Die Auswirkungen eines entgrenzten Verwertungskapitalismus in Form der Globalisierung und Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt, gesellschaftlicher Spaltung nach innen und Migration von außen sowie big data und Cyberspace, bewirken vielfältige Verunsicherungen und Ängste vor einem Verlust von Autonomie, Halt und Identität. Diese Entwicklungen erzeugen ein gesellschaftliches Klima, das von vielen Menschen als diffuse Bedrohung wahrgenommen wird und dann zu unterschiedlichen Reaktionen führt.
Rada Fundatorów Fundacji “Centrum Cyfrowe” przyjęła sprawozdanie finansowe przedstawione przez Zarząd Fundacji. Dla głębiej zainteresowanych finansami organizacji przygotowaliśmy krótkie omówienie części finansowej sprawozdania z analizą kilku podstawowych wskaźników. Zapraszamy na krótką wycieczkę w świat danych finansowych organizacji pozarządowej.
„Woman working (…)” z kolekcji National Postal Museum, 1965, Fot. nieznany
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North America Regional Municipalist Summit
New York City July 27-29, 2018
A growing movement across the globe is seeking to democratize and feminize political institutions at the level closest to our day-to-day lives: the municipal level. Weaving together social movements, participatory tools, solidarity economy, concrete wins, and the confluence of diverse political forces into a more direct form of democracy.
What would it take to build an American economy grounded in employee ownership?
This week is IETF 102 in Montreal, Canada, and we’re bringing you daily blog posts highlighting the topics of interest to us in the ISOC Internet Technology Team. Today we’re focusing on DNS, IoT and TLS issues.
Canada and Senegal partners are meeting for a comparative learning exchange on developing robust Internet of Things (IoT) Security frameworks in Ottawa, Canada 18-19 July. The Senegalese delegation visiting Ottawa is composed of representatives from the Ministry of Communication, Telecommunication, Posts and Digital Economy, the Authority for Telecommunications and Postal Regulations, and the ISOC Senegal Chapter.
Ananya Bhattacharya at Quartz: “Last year, Tharigopula Sambasiva Rao entered into a deal with the state government of Andhra Pradesh. He gave up six acres of his agricultural land in his village, Sakhamuru, in exchange for 7,250 square yards—6,000 square yards of residential plots and 1,250 square yards of commercial ones.
Convocado por la Cátedra Racismos y Migraciones Contemporáneas de la Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones, el encuentro "Mundo en Movimiento. La Chile piensa los racismos", reunió a la academia con el mundo social para discutir y analizar las diversas formas de expresión de esta práctica asociada a la actual migración; despliegue presente -según diagnosticaron los participantes-, a nivel cotidiano, social, institucional, cultural, entre otros.
