Por decimosexto año consecutivo, la Casa de Bello destacó como el plantel número uno del país en el ranking de instituciones de educación superior de mayor prestigio a nivel global, registrando además un notable avance respecto al año pasado, desde el puesto 396 al 360.
Con un 66 por ciento de los votos ponderados, la comunidad académica del ICEI definió que la profesora titular y coordinadora académica de la Cátedra Amanda Labarca encabezará por los próximos cuatro años esta unidad.Este martes 14 de agosto la Profesora Titular de la Universidad de Chile, Loreto Rebolledo González, fue elegida por sus pares como la nueva directora del Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen, unidad académica que imparte las carreras de Periodismo y Cine y Televisión.
El liderazgo de la Casa de Bello en esta área ha sido refrendado por indicadores de prestigio internacional, como el Academic Ranking of World Universities, SCImago, Nature, CWTS Leiden y AméricaEconomía.
Con una participación que congregó al 85,9 por ciento del padrón electoral, el académico Pablo Ruiz-Tagle se impuso al profesor Jean Pierre Matus, con el 64,15 por ciento de las preferencias ponderadas. Para el próximo jueves 23 de agosto está estipulada la proclamación oficial de la nueva autoridad por parte de la Junta Electoral.
Desde el 20 hasta el 25 de agosto se realizará la quinta versión de este encuentro que contará con actividades curriculares y extracurriculares que promuevan la formación de profesionales íntegros, conscientes de su entorno y capaces de comprender los impactos económicos, sociales y ambientales de sus decisiones personales y profesionales, con el objetivo de contribuir al desarrollo sustentable de nuestro país.A lo largo de sus cinco versiones, la Semana de la Sustentabilidad de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios (FEN) ha tratado temas referentes a la acció
A partir del Laboratorio de Geomática y Ecología del Paisaje de la Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservación de la Naturaleza, la U.
Para a comunidade acadêmica e de profissionais que lidam com a proteção da privacidade, bem como para a sociedade em geral, 2018 já é um ano para celebrar uma série de conquistas para a institucionalização da proteção de dados pessoais: (i) a modernização do primeiro instrumento internacional vinculante em matéria de tratamento de informações pessoais, a Convenção 108 do Conselho da Europa, se deu em 18 de maio pela aprovação do Protocolo de Alteração; (ii) o Regulamento Geral de Proteção de Dados Pe
For the academic community and professionals who deal with privacy protection, as well as for society at large, 2018 is already a year to celebrate a series of achievements for the institutionalization of data protection: (i) the modernization of the first binding international instrument on the processing of personal information, the Convention 108 of the Council of Europe, on May 18, by the Amending Protocol approval; (ii) the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union entered
Internet Australia and the Internet Society are pleased to invite you to watch the recording of an Experts Session on Encryption on 20 August 2018 at Parliament House, Canberra, Australia.
Delhi wants firm to open local office, appoint grievance officer as misinformation spreads.
The article by Debashree Dasgupta was published by Straits Times on August 24, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
In a meeting with WhatsApp’s CEO Chris Daniels, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said India put forward several demands, including that the company must have a grievance officer in India and have proper compliance of Indian laws.
The article by Nakul Sridhar was published in the Hindustan Times on August 21, 2018.
Encryption wars, part 2,403: The U.S. Department of Justice is pressuring Facebook to break the encryption in its Messenger app so that investigators can access communications by suspected Ms-13 gang members. The DOJ has asked a judge to force Facebook to allow the agency to tap into Messenger, with the outcome potentially affecting other tech companies, Fortune reports.
Paper by Nuran Acur, Mariangela Piazza and Giovanni Perrone: “Firms are increasingly engaging in crowdsourcing for innovation to access new knowledge beyond their boundaries; however, scholars are no closer to understanding what guides seeker firms in deciding the level at which to acquire rights from solvers and the effect that this decision has on the performance of crowdsourcing contests.
IG Metall is the world’s largest organised employee representation. For them, as well as for other unions, working in the digital age raises many new challenges and tasks. Stefan Stumpp, associate researcher at HIIG interviewed Vanessa Barth, Head of Target Group Work and Equality at IG Metall, about these challenges and how to deal with…
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September 2018, Nation Books. Text republished from Nathan Schneider’s website.
A new feudalism is on the rise. From the internet to service and care, more and more industries expect people to live gig to gig, while monopolistic corporations feed their spoils to the rich. But as Nathan Schneider shows through years of in-depth reporting, there is an alternative to the robber-baron economy hiding in plain sight; we just need to know where to look.
Prof. Dr. Joachim Windolf, Direktor der Klinik für Unfall- und Handchirurgie am Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf (UKD) und Präsident der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Unfallchirurgie (DGU), rät den radelnden Schülerinnen und Schülern außerdem dringend zum Tragen eines Fahrradhelms: „Bei schweren Verletzungen mit dem Fahrrad ist vor allem der Kopf betroffen.
Robert Raymond: We are witnessing the rise of a solidarity economy movement, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, including organizations like Cooperation Worcester in Massachusetts, Cooperation Humboldt and Cooperation Richmond in California, and Cooperation Jackson in Mississippi, among others.
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Date published: August 27, 2018Los Angeles Times"Many more companies felt the the impact, said Stanford Law School professor Barbara van Schewick, who has studied the issue for more than a decade.
Frank Chaparro at BusinessInsider: “JPMorgan’s corporate and investment bank is best known for advising businesses on billion-dollar acquisitions, helping private unicorns tap into the public markets, and managing the cash of Fortune 500 companies.
Paper by Christi J. Guerrini, Mary A. Majumder, Meaganne J. Lewellyn, and Amy L. McGuire in Science: “Citizen science initiatives that support collaborations between researchers and the public are flourishing. As a result of this enhanced role of the public, citizen science demonstrates more diversity and flexibility than traditional science and can encompass efforts that have no institutional affiliation, are funded entirely by participants, or continuously or suddenly change their scientific aims.