USAID Report: “We are in the midst of an unprecedented surge of interest in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. These tools, which allow computers to make data-derived predictions and automate decisions, have become part of daily life for billions of people. Ubiquitous digital services such as interactive maps, tailored advertisements, and voice-activated personal assistants are likely only the beginning.

Hannah Fry at the Wall Street Journal: “The Notting Hill Carnival is Europe’s largest street party. A celebration of black British culture, it attracts up to two million revelers, and thousands of police. At last year’s event, the Metropolitan Police Service of London deployed a new type of detective: a facial-recognition algorithm that searched the crowd for more than 500 people wanted for arrest or barred from attending.

Un groupe d’éminents juristes lance un appel en faveur de la création d’un institut québécois de réforme du droit et de la justice (IQRDJ).
«La modernisation de la justice ne doit pas se limiter à l’informatisation des activités judiciaires, elle doit aussi favoriser une réforme continue des lois et des pratiques judiciaires», a indiqué François Rolland, juge en chef de la Cour supérieure du Québec de 2004 à 2015.

Martin Enserink at Science: “Frustrated with the slow transition toward open access (OA) in scientific publishing, 11 national funding organizations in Europe turned up the pressure today.

Científicos chilenos descubrieron dos exoplanetas del tipo "Júpiter caliente" (enormes bolas de gas similares al coloso del Sistema Solar) orbitando dos estrellas gigantes a casi 1.500 años luz de la Tierra, en las constelaciones de Ofiuco y Acuario. La investigación, liderada por la astrónoma de la U.

Más de 200 gerentes y directores de medianas y grandes empresas en Chile participaron del estudio exploratorio "Panorámica de la Sostenibilidad en Chile: Desafíos Estratégicos para la Alta Dirección". En este trabajo, los ejecutivos fueron invitados a analizar el grado en que sus respectivas organizaciones se están adaptando a las nuevas demandas del mundo por la sostenibilidad en el largo plazo.Uno de los desafíos para el avance empresarial en contextos cambiantes como los contemporáneos es la inclusión de la sostenibilidad en los estándares de producción.

Los principales resultados de la evaluación interna, desarrollada en el marco del proceso de acreditación institucional, y que se han resumido en el libro "Vocación por la Calidad", fueron presentados en reuniones abiertas organizadas en los campus Sur y Juan Gómez Millas.

El director del Centro de Modelamiento Matemático fue reconocido por su trabajo científico y se integró como Miembro Correspondiente de la institución que agrupa a los científicos más importantes del país.El miércoles 22 de agosto pasado, la Academia Chilena de Ciencias celebró la incorporación del director del Centro de Modelamiento Matemático (CMM) y académico del Departamento de Ingeniería Matemática (DIM) de la Universidad de Chile, Alejandro Maass, como Miembro Correspondiente.

Un artículo publicado por un equipo científico internacional encabezado por la Dra.

Introdution to Special Issue of the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication by Yasmeen Shorish: “The pillars of a democratic society (equity, a free press, fair elections, engaged citizens, and the equal application of laws) are directly impacted by the availability, accessibility, and accuracy of information.

“We are entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.”
– Tim O’Reilly

The theme of the conference is MÄNNER. MACHT. THERAPIE. and has been consciously chosen for its somewhat double meaning in German. The impact of borderless, exploitation-based capitalism in the form of a globalised and digitalised working world, social division on the inside and migration from the outside as well as big data and cyberspace trigger insecurities on a wide scale and the fear of losing hold, autonomy and identity. These developments produce a social climate that is perceived by many people as a diffuse threat and then leads to different reactions.

Rich Decibels on Teal, Scuttlebutt and Solarpunk. An episode of Stephen Reid In Dialogue.
Excerpt:

Notes for a quadriformist manifesto — #3: TIMN’s advantages over three parallel theories (Raworth, Bauwens, Karatani)
David Ronfeldt: How and why four cardinal forms of organization — tribes, hierarchical institutions, markets, and networks (TIMN) — explain social evolution. How and why space-time-action cognitions (STA:C) explain people’s mindsets.
For a theoretical framework to be worthy of a political manifesto, it must offer something new and better than alternative frameworks. TIMN can do that, by proclaiming quadriformism.

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Myung J. Lee at the Stanford Social Innovation Review:  “It seems everywhere I go these days, people are talking and writing and podcasting about America’s lack of trust—how people don’t trust government and don’t trust each other.

Today, CIS is publishing a whitepaper called “Security Risks of Government Hacking.” Also called “equipment interference” or “lawful hacking,” government hacking allows investigators to exploit hardware and software vulnerabilities to gain remote access to target computers. We hope our new publication will make a valuable contribution to policy discussions about this important topic.
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“An evaluation of the regulatory framework on commercial communication aimed at children, in light of children’s rights”