Wolfie Zhao at Coin Desk: “A city district in southern China is using blockchain to streamline government services for its one million residents.

Gabrielle Berman andKerry Albright at UNICEF: “In an era of increasing dependence on data science and big data, the voices of one set of major stakeholders – the world’s children and those who advocate on their behalf – have been largely absent.

"Die traditionellen Medien haben Trump gross gemacht"

Objetivo é desenvolver princípios para combate à corrupção em estataisProjeto da Transparência Internacional (TI) – Programa Brasil e da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da FGV (Direito Rio), a segunda reunião do “Conselho Consultivo da Iniciativa de Integridade para Empresas Estatais Brasileiras” foi realizada no dia 23 de junho. A atividade é ligada a um projeto internacional da TI, cujo objetivo é desenvolver princípios globais para o combate à corrupção em empresas estatais.

Eitan D. Hersh in the New York Times: “…For years, political scientists have studied how people vote, petition, donate, protest, align with parties and take in the news, and have asked what motivates these actions. The typical answers are civic duty and self-interest.

Andrew Frain and Randal Tame in The Conversation: “The Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government (BETA) or “nudge unit”, founded in 2015, is using behavioural economics in an effort to improve policy outcomes. The problem? Evidence shows it may be the wrong way to address major problems like inequality.

Parag Khanna in Quartz: “In just one short decade, Facebook has evolved from a fast-growing platform for sharing classmates’ memories and pet photos to being blamed for Donald Trump’s election victory, promoting hate speech, and accelerating ISIS recruitment. Clearly, Facebook has outgrown its original mission.

“We have been cheated,” declared the headline of the blog post making the rounds of social media on April 25.
The blogpost by Chanpreet Khurana was published by Scroll.in on July 4, 2017. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the governing agency in charge of Aadhaar, has declined multiple requests from all law enforcement agencies, including the Delhi Police, for biometrics of citizens for criminal investigations, according to a report by The Indian Express.
The blog post by Justin Lee was published by Biometric Update on July 4, 2017.

Hasta el Patio Andrés Bello llegaron representantes estamentales y de los organismos colegiados de la U.

Durante esta semana, diez jóvenes músicos compartirán y aprenderán junto al titular de la Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Chile, culminando con un concierto especial donde los participantes tendrán la posibilidad de dirigir la orquesta frente al público. Tras los cinco días de estudio y aprendizaje se seleccionará a los participantes que serán los encargados de conducir el concierto que la Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Chile ofrecerá como cierre de esta iniciativa.

La publicación sobre terremotos, impresa en versión macrotipo y braille, fue diseñada por la Unidad de Transversalidad Educativa de la División de Educación General del Ministerio de Educación (Mineduc), y contó con la colaboración del Centro Sismológico Nacional (CSN) a través de la entrega y revisión de contenidos. El texto está dirigido a niños y niñas con visibilidad reducida y ceguera, y tiene por objetivo apoyar al docente en su labor formativa en el desarrollo de actitudes de autocuidado y prevención de riesgos.

Cada año los pueblos originarios de América del Sur celebran, entre el 21 y el 24 de junio, el We Tripantu, o "nueva salida del sol". Tal como sus antepasados hicieron durante siglos, a lo largo del país los pueblos celebran la renovación de la naturaleza y el inicio de un nuevo ciclo. El profesor Claudio Millacura, coordinador de la Cátedra Indígena de la Universidad de Chile, nos cuenta respecto a su importancia en la cosmovisión mapuche.

Written by: Dwi Aini Bestari
 

La Universidad recuerda la figura de Joaquín Navarro-Valls
Antiguo alumno de Periodismo, recibió el Premio Luka Brajnovic de Comunicación en 2005

Joaquín Navarro-Valls recogiendo el Premio Luka Brajnovic en el Aula Magna de la Universidad de Navarra en 2005
FOTO: Manuel Castells

06/07/17 12:06
Álvaro Pérez

The event, organised as an informal expert seminar, will focus on the challenges for media freedom and media pluralism in the digital age. The outcome of the seminar will provide some input for the dialogue of EU Ministers in the General Affairs Council on 17 October 2017 on the role of the EU and the Member States in ensuring trust in a pluralistic media in the digital age.

The purpose of the hearing is to reflect on the state of play of media pluralism and media freedom in Europe and to identify ways to strengthen independence and better protect journalists and their freedom of expression. The event will be chaired by Claude Moraes, S&D.
Details and full programme here.

Recently, there have been a great deal of debates revolving around research progress and impact across certain areas of science. As a moderate percentage of experimental findings haven’t been successfully replicated, scientists worry that the fruits of their research aren’t valid and reliable enough to change and benefit society at large, beyond academia.

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Prof. Brett Frischmann
(Charles Widger Endowed University Professor in Law, Business and Economics, Villanova University)
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Page Type: Event12 luglio 2017
Prof. Brett Frischmann
(Charles Widger Endowed University Professor in Law, Business and Economics, Villanova University)
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Wed, 12/07/2017 - 16:00 to 18:00luogo: Via Boggio 65/a | Torino (primo piano)