Cordis: “Estimating poverty is crucial for improving policymaking and advancing the sustainability of a society. Traditional poverty estimation methods such as household surveys and census data incur huge costs however, creating a need for more efficient approaches.
Projetos podem ser submetidos até o dia 30 de setembroA FGV Direito Rio está com inscrições abertas para o "Prêmio FGV Direito Rio – Melhores Práticas em Regulação". Em sua primeira edição a premiação dará destaque às melhores práticas de regulação adotadas por agências reguladoras federais, estaduais ou municipais, tanto individualmente quanto em parceria com outros órgãos e entidades.
“Os Estados Partes condenam a discriminação contra as mulheres sob todas as suas formas, acordam em prosseguir, por todos os meios apropriados e sem demora, uma política tendente a eliminar a discriminação contra as mulheres[…]”. Essa é a redação do art. 2º da Convenção sobre a Eliminação de Todas as Formas de Discriminação contra as Mulheres ratificada pelo Brasil em 1984.
Jonathan Cornelissen at Harvard Business School: “Want to catch tax cheats? The government of Rwanda does — and it’s finding them by studying anomalies in revenue-collection data.
Want to understand how American culture is changing? So does a budding sociologist in Indiana. He’s using data science to find patterns in the massive amounts of text people use each day to express their worldviews — patterns that no individual reader would be able to recognize.
„Ein früher Kontakt zur Palliativmedizinischen Ambulanz kann helfen, Beschwerden oder Sorgen im körperlichen, psychischen, spirituellen und sozialen Bereich rechtzeitig anzusprechen, bzw. zu behandeln. Vielen unheilbar erkrankten Patientinnen und Patienten gibt das Sicherheit“, erklärt Dr. Martin Neukirchen, Ärztlicher Leiter des Zentrums für Palliativmedizin am UKD.
La iniciativa de Laboratorios Portátiles, liderada en el país por la U. de Chile y que comenzó en 2013 en la Región Metropolitana, hoy se extiende a siete regiones y suma a once universidades, llevando la experimentación de las ciencias biológicas a los liceos públicos del país. Esta semana, expertos provenientes de nueve países de la Latinoamérica, se reunieron en la Casa de Bello con investigadores de universidades de todo el país para avanzar en la expansión del proyecto y mejorar la calidad de la educación científica. En la Facultad de Ciencias de la U.
Inside the framework of the 11th meeting of LACIGF, the Internet Society’s Regional Bureau in Latin America & Caribbean successfully carried out the 2018 edition of the Workshop for Chapter Leaders. In addition to addressing the key issues of the organization, the event included a session focused on personal development. The 34 participants, from 22 Chapters, also had the opportunity to talk with Andrew Sullivan, future Executive Director of the Internet Society.
Volunteering: A Shared Challenge
Interessados podem se inscrever até o dia 20 de setembroA FGV Direito Rio está com inscrições abertas para o processo seletivo do Intercâmbio 2019.1. Os interessados têm até o dia 20 de setembro para submeterem suas candidaturas através do site, ou diretamente na Coordenação de Relações Internacionais da Escola.
Securing the IoT: Internet of Things security spending is predicted to rise by about 30 percent a year through 2023 as the industry looks for some regulations, reports Cyber Security Hub. Possible regulatory standards are driving part of the growth.
There are very few shelters for homeless people in India, and those that do exist are primarily for men. In 2001 ActionAid India launched Aashray Adhikar Abhiyan – an intervention to create a nationwide network of homeless shelters that has pushed the number of shelters in Delhi from 10 to 269.
In the face of environmental crises and global inequality, how can we work together for more sustainable futures? What can we learn from great transitions and transformations of the past?
A comissão científica do III Seminário Governança das Redes torna pública lista de trabalhos aprovados para o evento a ser realizado nos dias 24 e 25 de setembro, em Belo Horizonte.
Book by Elizabeth F. Cohen: “Waiting periods and deadlines are so ubiquitous that we often take them for granted. Yet they form a critical part of any democratic architecture. When a precise moment or amount of time is given political importance, we ought to understand why this is so. The Political Value of Time explores the idea of time within democratic theory and practice. Elizabeth F.
Martijn Arets: At the Open Coop conference in London I interviewed Maru Bautista, Director of the Cooperative Development Program at the Center for Family Life in Brooklyn, New York. For the past 5 years, she has worked with her team and the Sunset Park community to strengthen immigrant-led worker cooperatives in New York City.
Ce panel composé de quatre conférenciers chevronnés provenant de différents horizons disciplinaires et professionnels analysera les plateformes électorales en matière de santé des principaux partis en vue des élections du 1er octobre prochain.
Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias in Television & New Media (TVNM): “...Data colonialism combines the predatory extractive practices of historical colonialism with the abstract quantification methods of computing. Understanding Big Data from the Global South means understanding capitalism’s current dependence on this new type of appropriation that works at every point in space where people or things are attached to today’s infrastructures of connection.
Conference paper by Juan Ribeiro Reis et al: “Citizens and developers are gaining broad access to public data sources, made available in open data portals. These machine-readable datasets enable the creation of applications that help the population in several ways, giving them the opportunity to actively participate in governance processes, such as decision taking and policy-making.
