Richard Harris at NPR: “Biomedical research is going big-time: Megaprojects that collect vast stores of data are proliferating rapidly. But scientists’ ability to make sense of all that information isn’t keeping up.
This conundrum took center stage at a meeting of patient advocates, called Partnering For Cures, in New York City on Nov. 15.
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This piece is written by Jaakko Korhonen and Joonas Pesonen of Open Knowledge Finland
At the end of October a team using OpenSpending tools held a pitch for high-ranking Finnish Government officials in “Hack the Budget 2016,” a competition organised by Open Knowledge Finland (OKFFI) and the Finnish Ministry of Finance.
An Edge Conversation With Brian Christian: “This is another example where AI—in this case, machine-learning methods—intersects with these ethical and civic questions in an ultimately promising and potentially productive way. As a society we have these values in maxim form, like equal opportunity, justice, fairness, and in many ways they’re deliberately vague.
At CEIPI, I have co-authored with Christophe Geiger and Oleksandr Bulayenko a position paper discussing the proposed introduction in EU law of neighboring rights for press publishers for the digital uses of their publications. The proposal is included in the European Commission’s Draft Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market of September 14, 2016. Below you find the summary of the paper:
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The 3D Additivist Cookbook, devised and edited by Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke, is a compendium of imaginative, provocative works from over 100 world-leading artists, activists and theorists. The 3D Additivist Cookbook contains 3D .obj and .stl files, critical texts, templates, recipes, (im)practical designs and methodologies for living in this most contradictory of times.
Jennifer Brooks in Stanford Social Innovation Review: “After 15 years of building linkages between evidence, policy, and practice in social programs for children and families, I have one thing to say about our efforts to promote evidence-based decision-making: We have failed to capture the hearts and minds of the majority of decision-makers in the United States.
Christian Bittner in Political Geography: “In Israel and Palestine, map-making practices were always entangled with contradictive spatial identities and imbalanced power resources.
December 8, 2016Guadalajara, Mexico
Continuing the GovLab’s practice of seeking broad input on our work prior to formal publication, we are today opening the first batch of case studies from the Open Data for Developing Economies project for peer review. These case studies were developed in collaboration with USAID, FHI 360’s Mobile Solutions Technical Assistance and Research (mSTAR) and the Web Foundation.
with an article by S. Wahl und M. Grimm presenting "A Typology of Cancer Patients’ Information Behavior with Regard to Complementary and Alternative Medicine", articleWahl, S.; Grimm, M. (2016): How to Find an Alternative: A Typology of Cancer Patients’ Information Behavior with Regard to Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
New in the UNESCO Series on Internet Freedom is the study by Wolfgang Schulz and Joris van Hoboken about the relevance of encryption to human rights in the media and communications field ... DownnloadIt offers policy recommendations for state practice and other stakeholders. The present research was elaborated in order to implement Internet Universality framework.
Die Zusatzausbildung „Journalismus und Recht“ findet 2017 vom 27. bis 31. März statt. Bewerben Sie sich jetzt (Frist bis zum 10.2.2017) um einen der begehrten 15 Seminarplätze!
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La muestra organizada por la Agrupación Románticos Viajeros de la Corporación de Graduados y Profesionales se inauguró este lunes 21, y podrá ser visitada por el público hasta el 16 de diciembre en el Patio Domeyko. El ministro del Deporte Pablo Squella -que es parte de la exposición por su carrera de atleta desarrollada al interior de la Casa de Bello- participó de la actividad.El himno “Romántico Viajero”, escrito por Julio Vallejo, volvió a sonar en los pasillos de la Casa Central de la U.
Acompañados del ministro del Medio Ambiente, Pablo Badenier y de personal de la Policía de Investigaciones, el Rector Vivaldi y el decano de la Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, Roberto Neira, pudieron visualizar en helicóptero los terrenos afectados, recientemente declarados Santuario de la Naturaleza.Durante este lunes 14 de noviembre se inició un incendio forestal que afectó a la zona de Rinconada de Maipú, donde se ubica la Quebrada de L
En un encuentro cargado de recuerdos y anécdotas, más de una treintena de ex dirigentes, junto a los jóvenes que encabezan actualmente la Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile (FECh), funcionarios del organismo, integrantes de la Agrupación Cultural Universitaria (ACU) y autoridades universitarias se reunieron en la Casa Central para celebrar los 110 años de la más antigua organización estudiantil del continente. En la ocasión se inauguró además una exposición del recorrido histórico de la Federación, realizada por el Archivo FECh.
W tym numerze Kserokopii polecamy artykuły dotyczące unijnej reformy prawa autorskiego, o której debatuje teraz Komisja Prawna Parlamentu Europejskiego. Poza tym dzielimy się z Wami refleksjami z posiedzenia WIPO poświęconego dozwolonemu użytkowi edukacyjnemu i polecamy ciekawe wyroki ze świata sztuki oraz artykuł o tym, jak Wikipedia zmieniła dostęp do informacji.
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