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Supporting Wikipedia and the environment: The Wikimedia Foundation and Plant Your Change collaborate to plant 400,000 trees

Update: Thanks to the generosity of Wikipedia donors, we were able to meet our goal of planting 400,000 trees! If you have not yet given to Wikipedia and are able to, we are grateful for your support. Visit donate.wikimedia.org to make a contribution.

Les organisations internationales en transformation

Selon Antonio
Gueterres, secrétaire général des Nations Unies, le 75e anniversaire de l’ONU «
nous rappelle ce que nos fondateurs ont accompli et nous invite à être à la
hauteur de leurs ambitions. Nous devons de toute urgence mener une réflexion
innovante sur la gouvernance mondiale et le multilatéralisme, afin de les
adapter au XXIe siècle ».

​NTU Singapore’s joint research institute in Guangzhou, China, receives S$61 million funding boost

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How can platform innovation in SMEs be promoted?

What are the obstacles and conditions for success for platform innovation in medium-sized businesses? Which policies can support it? - These are the questions the research team of the project Data Platforms for Medium-Sized Businesses (short “DaPla”) asked itself.
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The Week in Internet News: Two-Thirds of World’s School Children Lack Access

Homework canyon: Two-thirds of the school children across the globe don’t have Internet access, according to a new report, India Today says. The report from the United Nations Children’s Fund and the International Telecommunication Union says the lack of access is a major problem during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Webinar | Internacional gender justice and the pandemic

Webinar | Internacional gender justice and the pandemic10h00O Evento: As crises nunca são neutras: reforçam todas as desigualdades existentes e isso também se aplica à atual pandemia de Covid 19. As desigualdades sociais são ampliadas e as consequências sociais, econômicas e de saúde da crise atual afetam particularmente as mulheres e as meninas.

Forschung: Working Paper zu KI

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91° Nexa Lunch Seminar - La visualizzazione delle informazioni tra retorica della trasparenza e traduzione consapevole

Page Type: Eventlunch22 settembre 2021
Valentina Manchia (Politecnico di Milano)
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Big Tech’s latest moves raise health privacy fears

143° Mercoledì di Nexa - Digital storytelling. Nuove forme di narrazioni digitali: un panorama

Page Type: Eventmercoledi8 Settembre 2021
Simone Arcagni (Università di Palermo e Faculty Associate Centro Nexa)
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Prison Labor & Strip Searches: An Abolitionist Analysis of Quebec Correctional Law & Practice

La Coordination des Midis-conférences des Jeunes Chercheurs du CRDP a le plaisir de vous inviter à visionner la capsule vidéo de présentation de la conférence citée en titre.

La vente en ligne des médicaments au banc des accusés

La Coordination des Midis-conférences des Jeunes Chercheurs du CRDP a le plaisir de vous inviter à visionner la capsule vidéo de présentation de la conférence citée en titre.

Résumé de la présentation : Le commerce électronique du médicament a dès ses prémices, été condamné sans jugement équitable autant par le monde scientifique, les professionnelles que les politiques publiques. Pourtant, malgré sa « culpabilité incontestable », il s’agit de plus en plus d’une pratique quotidienne dont il est important de réguler tous les aspects.

In ricordo di Philippe Aigrain (1949-2021)

Page Type: newsCon profonda tristezza abbiamo appreso che Philippe Aigrain, tra i membri fondatori del Comitato dei Garanti del Centro Nexa, è improvvisamente mancato l’11 luglio scorso, all’età di 71 anni.
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U. de Chile entregó más de 650 certificaciones a organizaciones

Un equipo de profesionales de la iniciativa "APS Al día" -del Departamento de Atención Primaria y Salud Familiar (APSF) de la Facultad de Medicina- ha desarrollado cursos y seminarios para capacitar en el actual contexto a diversas comunidades en temáticas como salud mental, trabajo en equipo, liderazgo, acompañamiento, gestión del riesgo, entre otros; instancias en las que han participado sincrónicamente más de 2600 personas.Desde que la pandemia por coronavirus llegó al país, es que un grupo de académicos y profesionales del Departamento de APSF se organi

Entrevista a Gonzalo Aravena, director del Museo de Niebla

De la teoría a la práctica. Del pensamiento crítico y el cuestionamiento a la ejecución e implementación de políticas públicas que construyan identidades y nos conecten con la memoria. De esta manera se puede resumir el viaje profesional del licenciado en Historia de la Universidad de Chile; quien hoy se encarga de estudiar, conservar y gestionar el patrimonio cultural asociado al castillo que se ubica en la localidad de Niebla, poblado costero a 18 km de la ciudad de Valdivia.Egresó de un colegio industrial, pero decidió formarse como humanista.

New White Paper: Considerations for Mandating Open Interfaces

People all around the world depend on the Internet to live their lives and do their jobs. Behind the surface of applications, online services depend on “interoperability” – the ability of software to work together.

For instance, this is what allows you to send a document from the Outlook account on your iPhone to a friend’s Gmail, then edit the document on a Samsung tablet before saving it in Alibaba cloud, and finally posting it on Twitter using an application like Hootsuite.

New empirical research on scholarly piracy – radical open access is not a panacea

Interview: Daten im Huckepack

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Leveraging Digital Transformation in a post-COVID Era: Panel Focuses on Africa’s Digital Opportunities and Obstacles, Striking an Optimistic Note

On Monday, 30 November, Portulans Institute, in partnership with the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), hosted a virtual panel event focused on leveraging digital transformation in Africa in the post-COVID era. This special event complements the series of launches previously organized by the Portulans Institute in cooperation with UNESCO. The session targeted stakeholders involved in nurturing and building a digital ecosystem in Africa, in particular policymakers, entrepreneurs, financial leaders and academics.

90° Nexa Lunch Seminar - Lo stato della censura Internet nel 2020: aggiornamenti dall’Osservatorio Aperto delle Interferenze di rete

Page Type: Eventlunch 28 Luglio 2021
Arturò Filastò (Fellow Centro Nexa)
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