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NationSwell: “…Community Solutions works in neighborhoods around the country to provide practical, data-driven solutions to the complicated problems involved in homelessness.

Gina Lucarelli, Tom Saunders and Eddie Copeland at Nesta: “The mountain kingdom of Lesotho, a small landlocked country in Sub-Saharan Africa, is an unlikely place to look for healthcare innovation. Yet in 2016, it became the first country in Africa to deploy the test and treat strategy for treating people with HIV.

“The U.S. Data Federation will support government-wide data standardization and data federation initiatives across both Federal agencies and local governments. This is intended to be a fundamental coordinating mechanism for a more open and interconnected digital government by profiling and supporting use-cases that demonstrate unified and coherent data architectures across disparate government agencies.

Mercedes Medina, nueva directora de Communication & Society
Sustituye al frente de la revista científica de la Facultad de Comunicación al profesor Carlos Barrera

Mercedes Medina.
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Carlos Barrera.
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Sally McGrane at the NewYorker: “When Leo Tolstoy’s great-great-granddaughter, the journalist Fyokla Tolstaya, announced that the Leo Tolstoy State Museum was looking for volunteers to proofread some forty-six thousand eight hundred pages of her relative’s writings, she hoped to generate enough interest to get the first round of corrections done in six months.

Está pronta a programação final do II Seminário Governança das Redes e o Marco Civil da Internet, que ocorrerá nos dias 26 e 27 de Outubro na Faculdade IBMEC, em Belo Horizonte. Confira aqui a programação com detalhes e aproveite para se inscrever. As vagas são limitadas!
 
 
 
 

Call for Evidence from The British Academy and the Royal Society: “…The project seeks to make recommendations for cross-sectoral governance arrangements that can ensure the UK remains a world leader in this area. The project will draw on scholars and scientists from across disciplines and will look at current and historical case studies of data governance, and of broader technology governance, from a range of countries and sectors.

Laura Venzal y Loreto Garrido, nuevas delegada y subdelegada de la Universidad
Han sido elegidas por los representantes de las distintas facultades y escuelas de la institución

Laura Venzal (izquierda) y Loreto Garrido.
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This report is the first in a series that will examine the challenges of digital switchover in Pakistan by providing an in depth assessment of the prevailing market trends on the adoption of digital TV, its policy making and regulation in the country.

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by Suniti Sampat and Aditi Prakash as part of the Dirty Picture Project. With Pink, Bollywood has made a bold attempt at making a movie about women and the way society treats them. In a lot of ways, women’s lives in most parts of India have been circumscribed by the dangers the sex faces. Should […]

Este 16 de septiembre a las 19:54 hrs. se cumplieron 12 meses del terremoto magnitud 8.4, con epicentro en las cercanías de Illapel, Región de Coquimbo.

Este 21 de septiembre el decano de la Facultad de Odontología, Jorge Gamonal, y la alcaldesa de Santiago, Carolina Tohá, suscribieron un convenio de colaboración para poner en marcha el Centro de Especialidades Odontológicas, que se ubicará a un costado de la Plaza Pezoa Véliz.

Este miércoles 21 de septiembre -y como parte de las conmemoraciones de su aniversario 75- se realizará la función oficial de lanzamiento de la gira de la obra del Teatro Nacional Chileno por seis localidades del norte y sur del país. Entre el 2 y el 20 de octubre, la obra escrita por Alejandro Sieveking tendrá funciones en Alto Hospicio, Tocopilla, Antofagasta, Puerto Mont, Curaco de Vélez y Ancud.

Reflexionar, dialogar y llegar a consensos en torno a la convivencia universitaria, con el fin de ir avanzando hacia una política institucional respecto al tema, fueron los ejes del conversatorio "La Convivencia en el Ámbito Académico de la Universidad de Chile", organizado por la Vicerrectoría de Asuntos Estudiantiles y Comunitarios (VAEC).Tras el Lanzamiento de la Iniciativa de Convivencia Universitaria de la Vicerrectoría de Asuntos Estudiantiles y Comunitarios, efectuado en el mes de mayo en Casa Central, este miércoles 21 de septiembre se desarrolló en

Apesar de carecer de conceituação legal no Brasil, o Trade Secret vem atraindo cada vez mais a atenção nas discussões sobre propriedade intelectual. Chamado por aqui também de Segredo de Negócio, o trade secret pode ser qualquer fórmula, método de negócio, compilação de dados, métodos de organização de informação, know how, modelo de negócio, que por ser mantido em sigilo, tenha valor. O valor aqui é medido pela vantagem competitiva dessa empresa no mercado em virtude do seu segredo de negócio.

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In this free online course taught by Berkman Klein Center founder Charlie Nesson, you'll learn to deliberate emotionally charged issues with your peers online without fear or rancor, and experience a system by which a jury, or any community, can move from a place of deep division to agreement and action.

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Evento será realizado no dia 18 de outubroA Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da FGV (Direito Rio) promove no próximo dia 18 de outubro, às 13h, a palestra “NYU Law Information on LL.M. Program”. A sessão informativa será ministrada em inglês por Lauren Goslin, responsável pelo processo de admissão da divisão de pós-graduação (Graduate Admissions) da faculdade de direito da New York University (NYU Law).

Researchers at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS) filed a petition yesterday seeking to unseal judicial records in San Francisco federal district court. Their goal is to reveal how the federal government uses U.S. law to obligate smartphone manufacturers and Internet companies to decrypt private user data, turn over encryption keys, or otherwise assist law enforcement with digital surveillance.
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