Other News from Participating Centers

The role of Open Data in driving sustainable mobility in nine smart cities

Paper by Piyush Yadav et al: “In today’s era of globalization, sustainable mobility is considered as a key factor in the economic growth of any country. With the emergence of open data initiatives, there is tremendous potential to improve mobility. This paper presents findings of a detailed analysis of mobility open data initiatives in nine smart cities – Amsterdam, Barcelona, Chicago, Dublin, Helsinki, London, Manchester, New York and San Francisco.

Gender Biases in Cyberspace: A Two-Stage Model, the New Arena of Wikipedia and Other Websites

Paper by Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid and Amy Mittelman: “Increasingly, there has been a focus on creating democratic standards and norms in order to best facilitate open exchange of information and communication online―a goal that fits neatly within the fem

Het verschil van mening: Collegereeks door prof. Dommering bij de Illustere School

Open Government: Concepts and Challenges for Public Administration’s Management in the Digital Era

Tippawan Lorsuwannarat in the Journal of Public and Private Management: “This paper has four main objectives. First, to disseminate a study on the meaning and development of open government. Second, to describe the components of an open government. Third, to examine the international movement situation involved with open government. And last, to analyze the challenges related to the application of open government in Thailandus current digital era.

Revista Beauchef Magazine rinde homenaje a vicedecano Felipe Álvarez

"Felipe Álvarez D., Vicedecano de la FCFM (2010-2017): Su huella en Beauchef", es el nombre del artículo con el que la décima edición de la publicación de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM) recuerda a su fallecida autoridad.

Con visitas a Artes y Ciencias comenzó gira de COAI a unidades locales

Con una visita la semana pasada a la Facultad de Artes, y este lunes a la Facultad de Ciencias, el Comité Operativo de Acreditación Institucional (COAI) inició una gira por el conjunto de las unidades académicas de la Universidad de Chile, de cara a este nuevo proceso de evaluación.

Half of the world languages are dying really fast – how you can save yours

Languages are a gateway to knowledge. How can digital tools be used to help native language speakers access and contribute knowledge? In this blog, Subhashish Panigrahi shows how endangered languages can be documented and preserved using open standards and tools.
The world’s knowledge that have been accumulated and coded over ages in different languages are valuable to learn about others’ cultures, traditions, and everything about their life. But not every language is not privileged to be a language of knowledge and governance.

The Online Self across Platforms and Realms: Multiple Social Media Platforms and Complex Identities Modes amongst Peripheral-urban Youth in Indonesia

Written By: Dwi Aini Bestari
 
Credit: Pixabay

Signs of Digital Apocalypse

It seems that my prophecies of a digital apocalypse is coming true each passing day. Every few months incidents are happening around the globe that is not only bringing down the trans connected networks and systems but also endangering the lives of people connected to these systems as lately seen in ransomware attack on UK National Health Services.

Research data infrastructures in the UK

The Open Research Data Task Force : “This report is intended to inform the work of the Open Research Data Task Force, which has been established with the aim of building on the principles set out in

Volunteers teach AI to spot slavery sites from satellite images

Matt Reynolds at New Scientist: “Online volunteers are helping to track slavery from space. A new crowdsourcing project aims to identify brick-making kilns in South Asia – frequently the site of forced labour – in satellite images.

NTU hosts prestigious international conference on the role of Chinese philosophy in a multi-cultural world​​

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The State of Open Data Portals in Latin America

Michael Steinberg at Center for Data Innovation: “Many Latin American countries publish open data—government data made freely available online in machine-readable formats and without license restrictions. However, there is a tremendous amount of variation in the quantity and type of datasets governments publish on national open data portals—central online repositories for open data that make it easier for users to find data.

Geen voorgeprogrammeerde disruptie maar furieus onderwijs voor creatievelingen – een bespreking van ‘in defence of serendipity’

Het boek In Defence of Serendipity: For a Radical Politics of Innovation van Sebastian Olma verscheen in December 2016 en kwam tot stand na een jarig fellowship bij het Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur.
Door Eke Rebergen

Frictionless Data: Introducing our Tool Fund Grantees

Frictionless Data is an Open Knowledge International project which started over 10 years ago as a community-driven effort of Open Knowledge Labs. Over the last 3 years, with funding from partners like the Sloan Foundation and Google, the Frictionless Data team has worked tirelessly to remove ‘friction’ from working with data.

U. de Chile aprueba Política de Corresponsabilidades Familiares

Esta tarde, el Senado Universitario aprobó la medida que busca generar igualdad de oportunidades entre hombres y mujeres en el desarrollo de su carrera estudiantil, académica y laboral.
En la sesión de este jueves del organismo universitario, la Casa de Bello dio un nuevo paso en materia de igualdad e inclusión, al aprobar la “Política de Corresponsabilidad Social en la Conciliación de las Responsabilidades Familiares y las actividades Universitarias".

DAS: Protagonista de la investigación del universo

Alojado en la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de la Universidad de Chile, el Departamento de Astronomía ha sido un actor fundamental en el desarrollo de esta disciplina en nuestro país. De sus aulas han salido cientos de investigadores que han aportado de manera determinante en la profundización de nuestro entendimiento del universo.
Ubicado en el Cerro Calán en Santiago, el Departamento de Astronomía de la Universidad de Chile, pionero en esa área del conocimiento en nuestro país, ha forjado a generaciones de astrónomos.

Estudiantes EdV-U.Chile viajan a Reino Unido para competir en Robótica

El equipo, compuesto por 16 niños de colegios de diversas comunas de Santiago y tres entrenadores, competirá el próximo 21 de junio en la ciudad de Bath, en el marco del concurso FIRST LEGO League.

Performance prueba los límites del cuerpo y el dibujo en el MAC

El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo presenta la exhibición "Dibujar el límite", una selección de videos, objetos, fotografías y dibujos que dan cuenta de una serie de acciones que la artista realizó en Alemania. En todas sus obras, Toro puso a prueba su capacidad corporal, siempre unida a una huella gráfica. Como parte de esta muestra, realizará también dos performances en el frontis de MAC Parque Forestal, y un coloquio el viernes 11 de agosto.

Form follows function? Challenging the academic narrative

The internet has fundamentally changed the way researchers work and collaborate, but has had less impact on the way they publish their results. We ask how scientific reports should be... MORE