"El Golpe al Cine Chileno: 45 años del cierre de los archivos universitarios" es el encuentro que -como parte del Foro de las Artes- se realizará en la U.

This week is IETF 103 in Bangkok, Thailand, and we’re bringing you daily blog posts highlighting the topics of interest to us in the ISOC Internet Technology Team. And following on from the previous day, Tuesday also features a packed agenda.

On 12 October, the Internet Society’s India Delhi Chapter (ISOC-Delhi) hosted the Youth Internet Governance Forum (YIGF) in New Delhi, India. Adarsh Umesh and Praneet Kaur share their thoughts on the event.
Hello everyone! A special “Hi!” from our side to the youth because this blog is specially dedicated to the youth of India.

L’équipe du Hub santé – politique, organisations et droit (H-POD) vous convie à participer au séminaire de M. Hugo Harper sur l’approche des sciences comportementales en gouvernance et politiques de la santé.
Le séminaire aura lieu le 6 novembre 2018 de 13h30 à 17h30 (pause café incluse). Il se tiendra au salon François-Chevrette

Am 17. und 18. Oktober fand in den Räumen des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung in Berlin die ABIDA-Gutachterfachtagung „Big Data: Intelligente Datenanalyse für die Datenökonomie“ statt. Dabei stellten Experten aus Wissenschaft und Praxis die von ihnen für das ABIDA-Projekt angefertigten Gutachten vor, die sich mit Fragestellungen rund um den Bereich Big Data befassen und konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen geben.

In our lab at the MIT Center for Civic Media, much of our work centers around broadening participation in technology design (for example, the Make the Breast Pump Not Suck project). Lately, in collaboration with the MIT Open Ocean Initiative, we have also been thinking about how to broaden participation in scientific discovery. Traditionally, ocean exploration is done by those with formal degrees and access to costly equipment, but in order to fully explore and understand our vast oceans, we […]

La Universidad firma una alianza pionera en España con beWanted para potenciar la empleabilidad entre sus alumnos
Un evento sobre nuevos modelos de selección reunió al fundador de beWanted y al director de RRHH de Huawei

Roberto Cabezas, director de Career Services de la Univeridad.
FOTO: Manuel Castells

05/11/18 16:54
Miguel Ángel Echávarri

AI against businesses: More than 40 percent of U.K. companies believe Artificial Intelligence will destroy their business models within five years, according to a Microsoft survey featured on CNBC.com. Still, more than half of businesses in the U.K. have no AI strategy.

Dr. Hoffmann und Prof. Musch vom Institut für Experimentelle Psychologie der HHU nutzten eine indirekte Fragetechnik zur Erfassung der tatsächlichen Einstellung von Befragten zu weiblichen Führungskräften. Dabei zeigte sich, dass Menschen nicht immer ehrlich sind, wenn sie ihre Meinung zu sensiblen Fragen äußern. Manche Befragte entscheiden sich dafür, unehrliche Antworten zu geben, die geeignet sind, sich selbst in günstigerem Licht erscheinen zu lassen oder die von anderen vermeintlich eher akzeptiert werden.

„Jedes Jahr werden etwa 600.000 Personen neu mit Diabetes diagnostiziert, was ungefähr der Einwohnerzahl der Stadt Düsseldorf entspricht“, erklärt Prof. Dr. Michael Roden, Vorstand des Deutschen Diabetes-Zentrums (DDZ). Die Erkrankung kann erhebliche Folgen für das Leben der Betroffenen und deren Lebensqualität haben. Es ist folglich „sehr wichtig, Diabetes rechtzeitig zu erkennen und optimal zu behandeln, um das Risiko für Folgeerkrankungen zu minimieren“, betont Prof.

Earlier this year OKI announced new funding from  The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to explore “Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research”. Over the next three years we will be working closely with researchers to support the way they are using data with the Frictionless Data software and tools.

Open data is a cornerstone of transparency, democratization and the guarantee of free access to information. But over the last 15 years it has also become a commercial commodity that is hugely in demand, and one that is proliferating fast. Juegos del Común is an exciting digital association in Barcelona using games dynamics to challenge this model and promote citizen empowerment and open data.

Thursday, 15.11.2018, 6p.m. Festsaal of the Alte Aula (Münzgasse 30)https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/32417 ,  https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/35885 The winners will be announced during the ceremony and Chancellor Dr. Andreas Rothfuß will award the prizes.Alfred T. Ritter will held this year’s Sustainability Lecture. He is Chairman of the Advisory Board of Alfred Ritter GmbH und Co.

Is there another transition possible from state-based centralized planning systems, to something that would be different than a mere transition to extractive capitalism, which wreaked such havoc in the Eastern block, where life expectancy and health declined so dramatically after such a transition? Gorbachev wished for a cooperative transition which never came, and Cuba has pushed through a number of reforms to facilitate a cooperative-based economy, but which operates at the margin of the mainstream economy.

Paper by Carla Bonina, Ben Eaton and Stefan Henningsson: “Open Government Data (OGD) is increasingly an object of research. Whilst referred to as a platform problem, few studies examine the phenomenon using platform concepts. One challenge governments face is to establish thriving OGD ecosystems through appropriate platform governance.

El tema central de la actividad desarrollada en el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) en Washington, Estados Unidos, fue la respuesta de las universidades de la región a los retos creados por la revolución tecnológica digital en curso.Hasta Washington llegó el Rector de la Universidad de Chile, Ennio Vivaldi, para participar de dos jornadas de discusión junto a expertos del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), del Banco Santander / Universia y autoridades de otras siete universidades latinoamericanas.

A contar de hoy, los integrantes de la comunidad podrán completar el Formulario de Caracterización Estudiantil (FOCES) desde cualquier dispositivo. Entre sus beneficios se encuentra el facilitar el acceso a distintos servicios de la institución, así como también renovar becas de la Universidad de Chile y del Ministerio de Educación.

El Comité Operativo de Acreditación Institucional (COAI) convocó a la Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile (FECh), a la Asociación Nacional de Funcionarios Académicos de la Universidad de Chile (ACAUCH) y a la Federación de Asociaciones de Funcionarios de la Universidad de Chile (FENAFUCH) para analizar en conjunto las principales conclusiones de la acreditación institucional.La participación de cada estamento en la acreditación institucional, proceso iniciado en mayo de 2017 y que actualmente se encuentra en la etapa de resolución final por

The Working Group sessions start tomorrow at IETF 103 in Bangkok, Thailand, and we’re bringing you daily blog posts highlighting the topics of interest to us in the ISOC Internet Technology Team. Only four days have been scheduled for the working groups this time around, which means there’s a lot of pack into each day; with Monday being no exception.

Report by Anthony McCosker, Jane Farmer, Tracy De Cotta, Peter Kamstra, Natalie Jovanovski, Arezou Soltani Panah, Zoe Teh, and Sam Wilson: “Every day, people undertake many different kinds of voluntary service and humanitarian action. This might involve fundraising and charity work, giving time, helping or inspiring others, or promoting causes.