"El Informe de Balines de la Universidad de Chile" es el título del cortometraje realizado por el profesor de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Francisco Osorio, el cual en casi 20 minutos revisa el determinante proceso de investigación mediante el cual un equipo del Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, determinó que los balines estaban compuestos solo por un 20 por ciento de caucho, y a partir del cual se impulsó el cese del uso de este tipo de municiones.“¿Quién iba a pensar el efecto que tuvo el estudio?”, es una de las p

Screenshot from “What is Opinion?”, an interview/lecture from Ulus Baker, recorded, edited and produced by Aras Özgün in August 2001, audio cleaning and mastering by Ufuk Önen in Ocotber 2020.
“Baker’s first extensive translation to English provides us with a much-needed intervention for re-imagining social thought and visual media, at a time when sociology tends to be reduced to an analysis of ‘big data’, and the pedagogical powers of the image are reduced to data visualization and infographics.” From the book’s back cover.

In 2015, the Internet Society Kolkata Chapter decided to create an Internet Exchange Point (IXP). It had just completed the installation of L-Root Instance, a critical Internet infrastructure to improve security and resiliency of the Web.

It chose the IXP model specifically because it was working towards hosting an authoritative Domain Name System (DNS) root zone for a top-level domain (TLD), another essential infrastructure of the Internet. But they didn’t know where to begin.

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Geneva, Switzerland, 22 October 2020 — The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that administers Wikipedia, announced today a collaboration to expand the public’s access to the latest and most reliable information about COVID-19.

We find evidence that German far-right partisans systematically made use of COVID-19 related hashtags to polarise the debate on the corona virus and social distancing.
The post Hijacking Hashtags in Times of COVID-19: How the Far-Right Polarises Twitter appeared first on HIIG.

With the onset of the economic crisis and the pandemic, Lebanon’s educational system has been thrown into turmoil. Education in Lebanon changed dramatically with the distinctive rise of e-learning, whereby teaching is taking place remotely on digital platforms. This abrupt shift to the digital realm has significant academic and social[...]

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Portulans Institute, in cooperation with UNESCO and with support from our 2020 Knowledge Partner, STL Group, hosted a regional panel on Wednesday, addressing digital transformation’s track record in Asia and the Pacific.

El primer webinar de la Revista Latinoamericana de Economía y Sociedad Digital (RLESD) se llevará a cabo el jueves 29 de octubre a las 10:00 CDMX / 12:00 BsAs.

El número de casos nuevos a nivel nacional se ha incrementado de 8,23 a 9,96 por cada 100 mil habitantes (promedios diarios de la última semana vs. semana anterior).

Reporte sobre Magallanes del Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería (ISCI), detectó que valores de movilidad promedio en la capital de esta región en septiembre, tras la segunda cuarentena decretada a fines de agosto, fueron un 35 por ciento mayores a los registrados en abril, durante el primer período de confinamiento. Leonardo Basso, director del ISCI y académico de la U.

En 1997, la Junta Nacional de Auxilio Escolar y Becas (JUNAEB) requirió a la Universidad de Chile crear un sistema para licitar las casi 2 millones de raciones alimenticias para estudiantes de colegios públicos y subvencionados.

En el marco del actual debate sobre el sistema educativo y la instalación de los nuevos Servicios Locales de Educación Pública, el emblemático liceo de Concepción reunió a autoridades educativas de la Casa de Bello, la Universidad de Concepción y el servicio Andalién Sur de la región.

Berlin, October 9, 2020 – With a new series of portraits, the project “Jung.Digital.Engagiert” at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) draws attention to passionate and inspiring young people who are building bridges between the world of digital, the commitment to a better present and a future full of humanity. Die…

Saving lives with an app, supporting non-profit organisations through data analysis - these are two of the many ways of digital civic engagement. Within the framework of our project "Jung. Digital. Engaged." we have portrayed young people who volunteer for good in the fields of civil knowledge production and collaborative problem solving.

Neue Forschungsprojekte am Start
Am bidt starten drei neue interdisziplinäre Forschungsprojekte in den Themenbereichen Künstliche Intelligenz, Strategiebildung der deutschen Industrie und Regulierung von Onlineplattformen.