In 1983, a right-wing mayor was elected in Grenoble. His administration was marked by corruption and the power he gave to large corporations in the management of public services. Elected officials and environmental activists mobilised in the 1980s and 1990s to prove that corruption was involved in many deals, and set up an alternative, municipal entity to take back and run the water utility.
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Socrates Schouten: Digital cities with a conscience — What does a new government mean for Amsterdam?
What if the entire progress of society depends on the future energy system? At least that’s how visionaries like Jeremy Rifkin argue. The list of challenges posed by the energy system transformation is extensive – first and foremost globally agreed climate targets with the urgency of minimizing CO2 emissions. Policymakers and business leaders in particular…
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VFS Global, an international visa outsourcing and administration company, will spend about 3 million euros on migrating data of Indians from the UK and Germany if the Indian government mandates data localisation in the country.
The article was published in ET Tech on November 19, 2018. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.
Amazon’s Comprehend Medical platform uses a new HIPAA-eligible machine learning service to process unstructured medical text and information such as dosages, symptoms and signs, and patient diagnosis.
The article by Kul Bhushan was published in the Hindustan Times on November 28, 2018.
Originally published on The Climate Lemon
Something amazing is happening in American politics. Wow it felt good, and weird, to type that sentence. Not sure if you noticed, but it’s been kind of a hellish shitshow recently.
This article was adapted from Shareable’s latest book, “Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons.” Download your free pdf copy today.
Centre for Policy Research supported by Omidyar Network organized this event in New Delhi on November 29, 2018. Amber Sinha was a speaker on the first panel on privacy and its tradeoffs.
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Amber Sinha was one of the stakeholders who provided inputs to the Danish Expert Group on Data Ethics in June 2018 during their visit to New Delhi. The Expert Group has prepared and submitted its final report.
On Wednesday, November 14th, the Partnership on AI held its 2nd annual All Partners Meeting in San Francisco, California. Representatives from our 80+ member organizations – for-profit companies, civil society organizations, academic institutions, and advocacy groups – traveled from across the globe to reflect on 2018 progress, and to plan for the future.
Entre el 29 y el 30 de noviembre representantes de 16 universidades del Estado de Chile se reunieron a trabajar en diferentes mesas y talleres, abarcando distintas áreas y objetivos planteados por la Red Universitaria Estatal de Formación Inicial Pedagógica, iniciativa que desde 2016 busca impulsar la innovación y transferencia de experiencia en la formación de docentes en nuestro país.Programas de acceso, calidad -incluyendo evaluación nacional diagnóstica y movilidad estudiantil nacional- e investigación fueron los temas de las mesas de trabajo que durante dos días desarr
Con el financiamiento del Programa Tecnológico Estratégico de CORFO, el Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica (DIMEC) de nuestro plantel, implementará durante cinco años una iniciativa compuesta por ocho proyectos, y cuyo objetivo general es el desarrollo, escalamiento y comercialización de soluciones tecnológicas que permitan avanzar desde la manufactura tradicional a una manufactura avanzada.“Programa de Innovación en Manufactura Avanzada” es el título de la propuesta presentada por el DIMEC de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, que se adjudicó
As data analytics have improved, the massive amounts of data that companies acquire from their customers has only gained in economic value. In the corporate world of today, this data can be a real asset for companies. However, as today’s news, that the records of over 500 million guests of Marriott International’s Starwood division hotels were involved in a data breach, makes clear, corporate thinking about the value of customer data needs to be reevaluated.
As barriers to entry start to fall, the Internet of Things (IoT) industry could provide Africa with an opportunity to build a brighter economic future.
Several countries are already establishing tech hubs that could supply the infrastructure to fuel IoT, and while there is still a wide gap between the haves and have-nots of Internet access, with more than 60 per cent of Africa still offline, it’s easy to build a case for connectivity.
Die schönsten Liebesszenen der Opernliteratur, dargeboten von Orchester und Chor der Heinrich-Heine-Universität sowie Solisten der Oper Düsseldorf
Catherine Stihler has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of Open Knowledge International.
Catherine has years of experience in the creation and sharing of knowledge on the global stage. She will join the OKI team in February, and will stand down as an MEP at the end of January after an extraordinary career in EU policy-making spanning nearly 20 years.
Edited by Paige Shipman and Nick Buxton, the following text is republished from the Transnational Institute’s website.
Jason Davidson: Digital agriculture, broadly defined as the use of mass amounts of data to influence decision-making on farms, has incredible potential to make farms more economically and ecologically sustainable. However, it also poses risks to the privacy, profitability and independence of farmers.
Con motivo de la conmemoración del primer aniversario de la Ley de Desmunicipalización, este 27 de noviembre fue presentado en el ex Congreso Nacional el libro "Nueva Educación Pública". La obra, coordinada por el académico de la Universidad de Chile, Cristián Bellei, repasa los hitos que antecedieron a la reforma actualmente en curso y proyecta el futuro de la educación pública.“El proceso de transición para instalar la Nueva Educación Pública, de enorme complejidad como puede anticiparse, está previsto hasta el año 2025.
El académico de la Universidad de Chile y Premio Nacional de Ciencias Exactas 2015, fue reconocido por el organismo en la categoría Astronomía, Ciencias de la Tierra y del Espacio.