A días de la apertura de la Bienal Internacional de Artesanía Fina y Creación, Révélations, donde Chile es el país invitado de honor, la artista y académica de la U.

Como parte de un esfuerzo por entregarle a sus funcionarios nuevas herramientas para desarrollar sus labores cotidianas, la Dirección de Recursos Humanos -a través de su Unidad de Capacitación-, inició un nuevo curso de inglés para 190 trabajadores de la Universidad de Chile, quienes podrán acceder al finalizar los niveles correspondientes a una certificación del dominio de ese idioma.

El prorrector de la Casa de Estudios italiana, Vicenzo Mannino, y el Rector de la Universidad de Chile, Ennio Vivaldi, analizaron las opciones de incrementar el intercambio entre las dos instituciones en áreas específicas y posibilitar a futuro la doble titulación en postgrado.Leyes, ciencias de la educación, arquitectura y geología fueron algunas de las áreas en las que el prorrector de la Universidad de Roma Tres, Vicenzo Mannino, y el Rector de la Universidad de Chile, Ennio Vivaldi, exploraron nuevas op

Trabalho, Tributação e o Futuro da Inteligência Artificial
Introdução
A evolução das tecnologias de inteligência artificial e automação reviveu antigas preocupações acerca dos impactos da tecnologia no mercado de trabalho, na concentração de renda e na administração pública. Mais do que nunca, ameaça da substituição de trabalhadores humanos por autômatos inteligentes se faz presente e real.

Today marked the first substantive hearing in the petition challenging the Delhi High Court’s judgment upholding WhatsApp’s updated privacy policy. Summaries of arguments in the previous hearings in this case can be found here and here. Curiously, despite the petitioners’ counsel being available in Court, the Court asked the counsel appearing for the intervenor to […]

Internet Rules! Media Change & Innovation @ AoIR 2016

It is hard to count how many times we have been saying that the current European copyright regime is outdated. Sometimes the focus is on the negatives: what it should not be like. The ongoing copyright reform reinforces that tendency with proposals such as the content filter.

Open Knowledge Belgium in collaboration with Wikimedia Belgium has launched Civic Lab Brussels – a biweekly action-oriented gathering of open enthusiasts with different backgrounds and skills who work together on civic projects.
This post was first published on Open Knowledge Belgium’s website.

Courtney Kennedy at Pew Research Center: “… we are often asked about how we conduct our research. We work hard to make our methodologies transparent and understandable, but we also know that survey mode effects and data weighting aren’t on everyone’s short list of water-cooler conversation topics.

Al Baker in the New York Times: “It was a policing invention with a futuristic sounding name — CompStat — when the New York Police Department introduced it as a management system for fighting cri

Contact: cmpf@eui.eu
Title: Media Pluralism at risk in Europe
 
The Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) has released the 2016 edition of the Media Pluralism Monitor, one the principal measures of the risks to media pluralism in Europe. The Monitor has examined 30 European countries in 2016 and the results show that none of these countries is free from risks.

 CPRsouth 2017: Connecting the next billion
                                                                         
                                                                         Yangon, Myanmar
30th August- 1st September
 CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS
 Extended deadline for submissions: 08 March 2017
Paper proposal on policy relevant research on ICTs from the Asia Pacific and Africa may be submitted for review.
 

CPRsouth 2017: Connecting the next billion

Yangon, Myanmar
30th August- 1st September
 CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS
 Extended deadline for submissions: 08 March 2017
Paper proposal on policy relevant research on ICTs from the Asia Pacific and Africa may be submitted for review.

Submission guidelines may be found at this link.

Even though the market continues to develop innovative broadband, competition in the market has remained dull. Competitors do not aggressively seek to increase their market shares and revenue, hence, first-mover Mascom, continues to dominate the market. Between 2014 and 2016, Mascom owned close to 55% of the market, while Orange owned around 28% and beMOBILE 17% on average. 

Iniciativa visa analisar aspectos regulatórios dos BRICSA Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro (Direito Rio) acaba de criar o Núcleo de Estudos China-Brasil, que tem como objetivo lançar um olhar sobre os aspectos regulatórios no Brasil, seus avanços e os desafios que impõem às empresas chinesas. Na via contrária, o Centro também se debruçará sobre os traços do Direito Regulatório dos BRICS (Brasil, Rússia, Índia, China e África do Sul), com ênfase na evolução do Estado de Direito na China.

The current rapid social and technological change is giving rise to enormous uncertainties – and a great need for explanations and sense-making. How do we understand the digital society? When... MORE

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La iniciativa del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la U. de Chile (MAC) propone extender a Arica, Antofagasta y Coquimbo la plataforma virtual e interactiva de intercambio entre educadores del museo, docentes de artes visuales y estudiantes. El programa fue beneficiado con un Fondo Concursable Fomento al Arte en la Educación (FAE) 2017.

"El amanecer de la telemedicina -que permite a los médicos controlar a los pacientes desde lejos- es prometedor, sobre todo para aquellos que viven en zonas remotas. Muy útil para un país largo y angosto como Chile", señalan en la siguiente columna publicada este 2 de mayo en El Mercurio, el Prorrector de nuestro plantel, Rafael Epstein, el director del MIT Sloan Latin America Office (MSLAO), Lee Ullmann, y el miembro del Consejo Asesor del (MSLAO), Marcelo Larraguibel.