Other News from Participating Centers

21,3 por ciento de los jóvenes hasta 24 años está desempleado

De acuerdo a la medición, que se aplica desde 1956 y tiene representatividad a nivel de toda la Región, el desempleo aumentó 0,4 puntos porcentuales en junio -en comparación al mismo mes de 2016-, alcanzando el 8,0 por ciento. En tanto, el grupo de jóvenes hasta 24 años fue el que sostuvo una mayor alza en la tasa de desocupación.  Según el sondeo hay 2.924.000 personas ocupadas en el Gran Santiago, cifra inferior al promedio de los últimos doce meses.

50 km/h: una necesidad

"Llevamos 15 años con un límite de velocidad urbano de 60 km/h. Es el momento de que el Congreso revierta el error del cambio de ley introducido el año 2002, un error que cobró y sigue cobrando vidas", dice en la siguiente columna de opinión Alejandro Tirachini, académico del Departamento Ingeniería Civil de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de nuestro plantel, refiriéndose al cambio legislativo que reducirá la máxima velocidad en zonas urbanas.

Organizing Christians to Protect Migrant Rights: Robert Chao Romero

As latino communities face increased pressure and risks from US immigrations and customs, how are latinos of faith organizing to protect the vulnerable while also including white Christians in migrant-led efforts for change?

How data can heal our oceans

Nishan Degnarain and Steve Adler at WEF: “We have collected more data on our oceans in the past two years than in the history of the planet.

Getting on the map: How to fix the problem with addresses

Joshua Howgego at New Scientist: “Kwandengezi is a beguiling neighbourhood on the outskirts of Durban. Its ramshackle dwellings are spread over rolling green hills, with dirt roads winding in between. Nothing much to put it on the map. Until last year, that is, when weird signs started sprouting, nailed to doors, stapled to fences or staked in front of houses.

Steve Ballmer has a big idea: to be a partisan for the facts

Location

United States

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Personal finance questions elicit slightly different answers in phone surveys than online

 and   at Pew Research: “People polled by telephone are slightly less likely than those interviewed online to say their personal finances are in “poor shape” (14% versus 20%, respectively), a Pew Research Center 

A Newbie in the IGF

I attended my first IGF event ever – the Asia Pacific regional IGF (APrIGF) in Bangkok – and here’s what happened…

Opportunities and risks in emerging technologies

White Paper Series at the WebFoundation: “To achieve our vision of digital equality, we need to understand how new technologies are shaping society; where they present opportunities to make people’s lives better, and indeed where they threaten to create harm.

Muestra cuestiona los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje en el MAC

El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la U. de Chile inauguró la muestra ¿Qué Educación para Marte?, del artista italiano Valerio Rocco Orlando. La iniciativa genera una narrativa audiovisual con diversas visiones en torno a los sistemas de educación del mundo y como parte de la muestra, el artista generará instancias de discusión con estudiantes, profesores y el público general, continuando con su trabajo iniciado en 2011.

Con diversas actividades conmemorarán 50 años de la Reforma Agraria

La promulgación el 28 de julio de 1967 de la ley 16.640 profundizó la Reforma Agraria en nuestro país, permitiendo la expropiación de millones de hectáreas en los años siguientes y la transformación radical del campo chileno al eliminar el latifundio y el inquilinaje. En el aniversario número 50 del inicio de este proceso, la Casa de Bello le dedicará la nueva edición de la Revista Anales a esta temática, y realizará un seminario abierto y un ciclo de cine, cruzando la reflexión académica con la memoria histórica de las organizaciones campesinas.

OHD on Consultation Paper on Net Neutrality

Pranesh Prakash was a speaker at the OHD on Consultation Paper on Net Neutrality organized by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on July 25, 2017 in Bengaluru.
Click to see the consultation paper. Pranesh's comments at the event followed the lines of the submission made earlier. The submissions can be accessed on this page.

Workshop on Public Open Wi-Fi Pilot

Pranesh Prakash was a speaker at the Workshop on Public Open Wi-Fi Pilot organized by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on July 25, 2017.

First International Congress on Fundamental Rights and Criminal Process in the Digital Era

Video of the lecture is available here. 
Cryptography Fellow Riana Pfefferkorn gave a lecture titled "The American debate on surveillance and encryption". May 30, 2017São Paulo

Steve Ballmer believes that facts about government spending can anchor public debate. Here’s how.

Location

United States

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Author(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: August 3, 2017Publication Type: Other WritingSteve Ballmer is the former CEO of Microsoft and the current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. He is also the creator of USAFacts, a website  dedicated to organizing and presenting data that allows U.S. citizens to understand the population, finances and government policy of the United States.

Julia de Lamare

A FGV sem dúvidas me proporcionou uma formação jurídica inovadora e de excelência. Por um lado, me deu a oportunidade de conviver com um corpo docente de muita qualidade. Tive aula com professores muito dedicados, competentes e generosos. Por outro lado, a FGV me ensinou a refletir, a criticar e a argumentar. Foi capaz de me mostrar, desse modo, a importância de se ter uma postura ativa e questionadora.

Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance and the Struggle to Reform the NSA

 
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 September 14, 2017Stanford Law School

How significant is algorithmic personalization in searches for political parties and candidates?

Of the many things we do online, search is probably the most common. Beyond messaging, entertainment, shopping, and a myriad of other activities, utilizing search engines, such as Google, to... MORE

Why We Should Care About Bad Data

Blog by Stefaan G. Verhulst: “At a time of open and big data, data-led and evidence-based policy making has great potential to improve problem solving but will have limited, if not harmful, effects if the underlying components are riddled with bad data.

Let the People Know the Facts: Can Government Information Removed from the Internet Be Reclaimed?

Paper by Susan Nevelow Mart: “…examines the legal bases of the public’s right to access government information, reviews the types of information that have recently been removed from the Internet, and analyzes the rationales given for the removals. She suggests that the concerted use of the Freedom of Information Act by public interest groups and their constituents is a possible method of returning the information to the Internet….(More)”.