Pew Research Center: “Migrants leaving their homes for a new country often carry a smartphone to communicate with family that may have stayed behind and to help search for border crossings, find useful information about their journey or search for details about their destination.
Open Knowledge International: “The updated Global Open Data Index has been published today, along with our report on the state of Open Data this year. The report includes a broad overview of the problems we found around data publication and how we can improve government open data. You can download the full report here.
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The updated Global Open Data Index has been published today, along with our report on the state of Open Data this year. The report includes a broad overview of the problems we found around data publication and how we can improve government open data. You can download the full report here.
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Encabezados por el rector (s), Rafael Epstein, una delegación de la Casa de Bello -que incluyó al director Jurídico, Fernando Molina; al director del Hospital Clínico de la U. de Chile (HCUCh) José Joaquín Aguirre, Dr. Jorge Hasbún; y al gerente comercial del recinto hospitalario, Dr. Luis Berr-, expuso ante organismo.
Más de siete millones de personas mueren cada año en el mundo a causa del consumo de tabaco, hábito que no solo cobra vidas, sino también implica altos costos para las economías y el medio ambiente. En términos monetarios, Chile gasta el equivalente al 0,8 por ciento del PIB en el diagnóstico y tratamiento de enfermedades producidas por el tabaquismo.
Ciencias, Lenguaje y Matemáticas en enseñanza básica serán las áreas del trabajo, que formarán parte del Cuarto Estudio Regional Comparativo y Explicativo (ERCE) de la Unesco, y que evalúa los aprendizajes en la región. Más de 50 instituciones fueron invitadas a participar de la elaboración del estudio, de las cuales el CIAE fue seleccionado finalmente.
Con encuentros con directivos e investigadores del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts y la presencia del embajador de Chile en Washington DC, Juan Gabriel Valdés, comenzó el viaje académico de la máxima autoridad universitaria, que se extenderá hasta el 5 de junio.
El equipo de hombres de la Universidad de Chile derrotó en una ajustada final a DUOC UC. Las mujeres, en tanto, obtuvieron el tercer lugar del torneo. La Selección de Básquetbol hombres de la Casa de Bello consiguió el título del Torneo de Apertura Serie Honor de las Ligas Deportivas de Educación Superior (LDES), tras ganar por 73-67 a DOUC UC en el Gimnasio del Colegio San Ignacio de Alonso Ovalle.
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Jeff Asher and Rob Arthur at the New York Times: “Gun violence in Chicago has surged since late 2015, and much of the news media attention on how the city plans to address this problem has focused on the Strategic Subject List, or S.S.L.
Susan McGreevey at Harvard Gazette: “Two interventions that link clinical care with community resources helped improve key health measures in overweight or obese children at the outset of a study, as reported in JAMA Pediatrics.
Press Release: “SERMO, a global social network for physicians has expanded its footprint globally to revolutionize medical crowdsourcing. SERMO is now open to physicians on all seven continents, delivering on its promise from day one to unite physicians from every corner of the globe, ensuring the free flow of expert information amongst physicians.
Open Science is a key part of the open data ecosystem. Citizen Science is one of the beneficial side-effects of these open and collaborative ways of doing research. Crowdsourcing amateur scientists to carry out science, harnessing untapped resources to tackle problems in new and innovative ways. Open Data Hong Kong (ODHK) members have been involved in a number of such projects.
