Making sense of lived experience during a pandemic

Join us on 20th May at 4pm BST/10am CDT for a Frictionless Data workshop led by the Reproducible Research fellows. This 90-minute long workshop will cover an introduction to the open source Frictionless Data tools. Participants will learn about data wrangling, including how to document metadata, package data into a datapackage, write a schema to describe data and validate data. The workshop is suitable for beginners and those looking to learn more about using Frictionless Data. It will be presented in English, but you can ask questions in English or Spanish.

On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

With most of the world on lockdown, children are likely spending more time than ever online. Between virtual classrooms and keeping up with friends on social media, many kids are depending on the Internet to maintain a semblance of normal life amidst the global health crisis.

While parents may worry about how this might affect their children’s well-being, experts have warned that the surge in screen time could also expose kids to safety risks online more often.

No dia 27 de abril, a Clínica LAJUNT (Laboratório de Assessoria Jurídica a Novas Tecnologias) do Núcleo de Prática Jurídica (NPJ) da FGV Direito Rio atendeu a Blend Edu (blend-edu.com/), uma startup que desenvolve experiências educacionais para promover a empatia, diversidade e inclusão nas organizações.

With the continuing crises that Lebanon and the world are facing, we at SMEX have sought ways in which free knowledge, which is an integral part of the ecosystem of digital rights, can contribute to addressing the emerging problems. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, SMEX has invested in[...]

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is already used in many sectors. In order to exploit its economic and social potential, it is essential to strengthen trust in AI systems and the processes and decisions associated with them. A possible key prerequisite for this is the certification of AI systems.

Do we really need to sacrifice privacy for health in the fight against covid-19? The DP-3T protocol can save lives without furthering surveillance capitalism.

Even though the Duden dictionary defines "alone" and "lonely" as synonyms, most people distinguish in their language use positively alone and negatively lonely. For a long time there was the image of the scholar who, in the solitude of his ivory tower, surrenders to thinking and can only become creative in this way. This romantic form of loneliness belongs to the human being just as much as being together.

I understand why environmentalists have concluded that Covid-19 is nature’s way of repelling human activity. If we’re going to keep mucking around with Earth’s biodiversity, climate, topsoil, oceans, and air, eventually nature’s going to respond. In this view, the virus is nature’s own antibodies, repelling human invasion.

In diesem neuen Podcast der ITM-Reihe J!Cast mit Steffen Uphues (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)  geht es um die Erstellung von Studienverlaufsprognosen mittels einer Learning-Analytics-Software. In der ersten Hälfte des Beitrags geht es um den Begriff Learning Analytics allgemein und die Ermittlung von Wahrscheinlichkeiten zum weiteren Studienverlauf. Danach wird eine kurze datenschutzrechtliche Einordnung vorgenommen.

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Die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler konnten nun zeigen, dass α5/β1-Integrine als wichtige Mechanosensoren in Lebersternzellen (die mechanische Reize wahrnehmen) die Freisetzung eines Wachstumsfaktors für Leberzellen (hepatocyte growth factor, HGF) vermitteln, welcher für die Leberregeneration essentiell ist.

In diesem neuen Podcast der ITM-Reihe J!Cast spricht Steffen Uphues (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) über die anstehende Evaluierung der DSGVO. Neben dem Evaluierungsverfahren stellt er vor, welche verschiedenen Stimmen sich bislang zur DSGVO positioniert haben. Darüber hinaus spricht er einige Verbesserungsvorschläge mit Hochschulbezug an.
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Prof. Dr. Frank Dietrich weist darauf hin, dass der Schutz vulnerabler Gruppen zwar ein hohes Gut ist, „das Ziel der Lebensrettung vermag aber gravierende Freiheitsbeschränkungen und Wohlstandsverluste nicht zeitlich unbegrenzt zu rechtfertigen“, so der Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Praktische Philosophie.

Como parte de un amplio esfuerzo internacional en el que participan científicos de más de 50 países, un grupo de investigadores de nuestro país está participando de un estudio que busca verificar si existe relación entre la enfermedad COVID-19 y la pérdida de olfato. La encuesta, traducida a más de 20 idiomas, es impulsada por el Consorcio Global para la Investigación Quimicosensorial, del que forma parte la Dra. Alexia Núñez, de la Facultad de Ciencias de la U.

Desde el 26 mayo, esta plataforma de educación gratuita y on line de la U. de Chile, impartirá este nuevo programa, desarrollado por integrantes del equipo académico de la cátedra de Derecho Constitucional de la Facultad de Derecho. Además, los usuarios ya pueden inscribirse en los cuatro cursos repositorios que la plataforma ha liberado en contexto de cuarentena.

"La ausencia de casos de COVID-19 hasta la fecha en Antártica, da esperanza que las poblaciones ya confinadas en las bases para el invierno 2020 no estarían en contacto con el virus durante su periodo de aislamiento. Aún así, no se puede excluir que el virus haya entrado vía un portador asintomático y se mantenga activo", señalan en la siguiente columna los investigadores del Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB) Elie Poulin y Léa Cabrol, quienes advierten sobre la necesidad de medidas para mantener el brote fuera de esta zona extrema.

Más de 2 mil casos son los que han resuelto las y los integrantes del grupo "Operativos de Salud en Catástrofes (OSCA)", una organización levantada por integrantes de la Facultad de Medicina en 2017, luego de los incendios que afectaron al centro sur del país.