Sarah Holder at CityLab: “For most of human history, maps have been very exclusive,” said Marie Price, the first woman president of the American Geographical Society, appointed 165 years into its 167-year history. “Only a few people got to make maps, and they were carefully guarded, and they were not participatory.” That’s slowly changing, she said, thanks to democratizing projects like OpenStreetMap (OSM)….
Let’s Encrypt, a nonprofit certificate authority launched in 2016, has delivered on its pledge to offer free certificates that enable secure HTTP connections for complete domains.
BVBA Open Access Book: “The impact of globalization, of technological progress and of the insecurity that they cause is reflected in people’s decisions, and by the path that our society is following. This path that will decide our future, in the sense that it will determine our capability of facing the challenges and taking advantage of the opportunities offered up by the advances in science and technology.
Springwise: “We have previously written about innovations that promote inclusion and equal rights such as edible pie charts that highlight gender inequality. Another example is a predictive text app that finds alternative words for gendered language.
The editors of the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook of Surveillance and Race seek additional contributors. This volume will bring together the work of leading scholars in such fields as public health, law, critical race studies, anthropology, criminology, sociology, history, political science, psychology, and philosophy to present an intersectional perspective on the issues of governance, power, and control as applied to racial and other minority populations.
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Pocos intelectuales latinoamericanos han tenido el impacto en la forma como se mira el mundo y el desarrollo económico y social como Theotonio dos Santos.
A través de las voces de más de quince artistas y sus creaciones, amigos, familiares, estudiantes, funcionarias y académicas se reunieron en la Casa Central, para recordar y homenajear a la estudiante trans, luchadora y activista por el reconocimiento social de la diversidad sexual.
El pasado 7 de marzo el proyecto que crearía el Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, sufrió nuevamente un traspié en su tramitación -esta vez en la Cámara Alta-, debido al desacuerdo en dos de sus propuestas. Con la iniciativa enviada a Comisión Mixta para resolver las normas en controversia, el vicerrector de Investigación y Desarrollo de nuestro plantel, Flavio Salazar, reflexiona en la siguiente columna publicada en el diario La Tercera, sobre el injustificado retraso de una ley que considera urgente para el país.
Un grupo de astrónomos de universidades nacionales e internacionales, entre ellos el investigador del MAS y académico del Departamento de Astronomía de la U. de Chile, René Méndez, descubrió estrellas jóvenes en la periferia de la Gran Nube de Magallanes, lo que indica que la formación estelar en la zona es producto de mecanismos no convencionales. La investigación fue publicada en la prestigiosa revista Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The application process for the Hackathon@AIS is now open. The Hackathon@AIS is an event aimed at exposing engineers from the African region to Open Internet Standards development and is co-organized by the Internet Society and AFRINIC. This will be the second event in the series following a successful event held in Nairobi last year during the Africa Internet Summit.
This blog is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2018. On Saturday 3 March, groups from around the world organised over 400 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data. 45 events received additional support through the Open Knowledge International mini-grants scheme, funded by Hivos, SPARC, Mapbox, the Hewlett Foundation and the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
„Wir freuen uns sehr über diese Unterstützung. Das Gerät ergänzt unsere bisherigen Diagnostikmöglichkeiten. So können wir schnell Klarheit schaffen bei Verdacht auf eine ganze Reihe von verschiedenen Stoffwechselerkrankungen. Daher sind wir sehr dankbar für diese Unterstützung“, sagt Prof. Dr. Ertan Mayatepek, Direktor der Klinik für Allgemeine Pädiatrie, Neonatologie und Kinderkardiologie am größten Düsseldorfer Krankenhaus. Das Stoffwechsel-Zentrum der Klinik zählt zu den größten Einrichtungen dieser Art in Deutschland. Dr.
Schülerinnen und Schüler der Jahrgangsstufen 11 und 12 sollten hellhörig werden: Denn es gibt insgesamt 6.000 Euro für die besten Facharbeiten in den Fächern Biologie, Chemie, Informatik, Mathematik und Physik zu gewinnen. Die Preise vergibt die Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf gemeinsam mit der Dr. Hans Riegel-Stiftung.
Prämiert werden die jeweils drei besten Facharbeiten des aktuellen Schuljahres mit jeweils 600, 400 und 200 Euro. Auch die Siegerschulen erhalten Sachpreise im Wert von 250 Euro.
In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]
Within the scope of openbudgets.eu, a project funded by the European Union’s H2020 research and innovation programme, Open Knowledge Greece (OK Greece) conducted a survey on the availability of open public budgeting data in Greece. Then, our team created an interactive map that allows users to check the scores of their municipality or regional administrative unit. You can visit openbudgets.gr to check out the map.
Smitha and I are writing a series of papers on a data protection law for India, based on our research. We hope that our discussion of the options before us and their relative merits and demerits will help other engage with these difficult questions in a nuanced manner. The first paper sets out the context for […]
Co-written by Victoria Alsina. Originally published in Forbes on March 27, 2018. Available online here.
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Durante os dias 17 a 23 de março foi realizada a 8ª edição do Fórum Mundial da Água em Brasília. O Fórum organizou mais de 300 mesas de debates que reuniram cerca de 95 mil pessoas, contando com a lideranças de 172 países. O Fórum consiste no principal evento de discussões sobre o tema dos recursos hídricos e foi marcado pela divulgação de Declarações e Compromissos Parlamentares.