Recordar que se pueden editar las preferencias ya inscritas, fijarse en la acreditación institucional, en el perfil de egresado de las carreras, e informarse sobre los trámites de financiamiento son parte de los detalles clave en los que deben fijarse los postulantes a las universidades en el Proceso de Admisión 2017.
En una íntima ceremonia, el Dr. Francisco Rothhammer fue galardonado por el Rector de la Universidad de Chile, Ennio Vivaldi, con la Medalla Rectoral con motivo de haber obtenido el Premio Nacional de Ciencias Naturales 2016.
La psicóloga y académica de la Universidad de Chile, Sonia Pérez, analiza en detalle cómo funcionaron los vínculos sociales en el marco del terremoto acontecido el pasado 25 de diciembre en el sur del país, indicando que "es indispensable fortalecer la conectividad del país" y que "los estudios de riesgo y los nuevos conocimientos científicos sobre las fallas que puedan estar activándose deben alimentar las decisiones locales sobre dónde construir", algo clave a juicio de la investigadora que también es parte del Programa de Reducción de Riesgos y Desastres de la Universidad de Chil
A 4ª edição do CopyrightX: ITS foi extremamente concorrida. Recebemos inscrições de alunos de todo o Brasil com muitos interesses e experiências acadêmicas diferentes. Chegar a apenas 42 selecionados foi um desafio devido ao grande número de inscrições com qualidade.
Amanhã entraremos em contato por e-mail com todas as pessoas aprovadas com materiais importantes para o curso.
A lista abaixo está ordenada por ordem alfabética.
LISTA DE APROVADOS:
1- Alexandre Sankievicz
2- André Luís Menegatti
3- Bruno Cordeiro Capelas
This is a liveblog written by Rahul Bhargava at the 2017 UN World Data Forum. This serves as a summary of what the speakers spoke about, not an exact recording. With that in mind, any errors or omissions are likely my fault, not the speakers.
Benjamin Wittes and Emma Kohse at Brookings: “The contemporary debate about the effects of new technology on individual privacy centers on the idea that privacy is an eroding value.
Paying for your groceries and other goods by using your biometrics instead of an e-wallet, debit card or cash seems to be the next phase in the Centre’s ambitious push to shift the country to a “less cash” economy, as its mandarins term it.
Minutes after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi began an ambitious new mobile-phone-payment application in December, several clones of the app popped up at Android smartphone stores.
“Open Data Watch is pleased to announce the release of the 2016 Open Data Inventory (ODIN). The new ODIN results provide a comprehensive review of the coverage and openness of official statistics in 173 countries around the world, including most OECD countries. Featuring a methodology updated to reflect the latest international open data standards, ODIN 2016 results are fully available online at odin.opendatawatch.com, including interactive functions to compare year-to-year results from 122 countries.
Martijn de Waal, Michiel de Lange, and Matthijs Bouw in Special Issue on 4D Hyperlocal: A Cultural Toolkit for the Open-Source City of Architectural Design: ” Can computer hacking have positive parallels in the shaping of the built environment? The Hackable City research project was set up with this question in mind, to investigate the potential of digital platforms to open up the citymaking process.
World Bank: “Congestion in metropolitan Manila costs the economy more than $60 million per day, and it is not atypical to spend more than 2 hours to travel 8 km during the evening commute there. But beyond these statistics, until recently, very little was actually known about Manila’s congestion, because the equipment and manpower required to collect traffic data has far exceeded available resources. Most cities in developing countries face similar issues.
Erna Ruijer, Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen, and Albert Meijer in Government Information Quarterly: “Open data platforms are hoped to foster democratic processes, yet recent empirical research shows that so far they have failed to do so.
Larissa Fast and Adele Waugaman at Global Innovation Exchange: What can be learned from the use of data, information, and digital technologies, such as mobile-based systems and internet connectivity, during the Ebola outbreak response in West Africa? What worked, what didn’t, and how can we apply these lessons to improve data and information flows in the future?
Francis Fukuyama in Project Syndicate: “One of the more striking developments of 2016 and its highly unusual politics was the emergence of a “post-fact” world, in which virtually all authoritative information sources were called into question and challenged by contrary facts of dubious quality and provenance.
Nicholas B. Adams at SSRC Parameters: “It is now abundantly clear to librarians, archivists, computer scientists, and many social scientists that we are in a transformational age. If we can understand and measure meaning from all of these data describing so much of human activity, we will finally be able to test and revise our most intricate theories of how the world is socially constructed through our symbolic interactions….
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Author(s): Beth Van SchaackPublication Date: January 13, 2017Publication Type: Other WritingWe have covered on these pages the legal and moral issues surrounding the use of human shields in contemporary armed conflict situations.