En texto publicado por El Mercurio en su edición del domingo 10 de abril de 2016, los Rectores de las Universidades Estatales explican que "es incomprensible que se cuestione cualquier apoyo a las universidades estatales" y que resulta "impresionante y desmedido el temor de quienes están a favor que nada cambie en educación superior de que la reforma estaría implementando un modelo estatista".Señor Director:
Por segundo año consecutivo, el colectivo "Otras maneras de mirar" desarrollará un taller audiovisual utilizando innovaciones en materia de audio descripción y trabajo grupal. La iniciativa acaba de ganar un fondo para un intercambio en Europa y espera constituirse como un núcleo de investigación.Desde el 4 de abril la Facultad de Derecho es escenario del trabajo de una decena de personas ciegas o que poseen baja visión que buscan producir un cortometraje.
Alejandra Urrutia volverá a tomar la batuta en el Centro de Extensión Artística y Cultural (CEAC) en un programa que contará con las obras "Concierto para Arpa" de Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, "Vilama-La Muerte del Río", del compositor chileno Carlos Zamora, y la "Sinfonía N°9 'Desde el Nuevo Mundo'", de Antonín Dvorak. Tres interesantes obras son las que contempla el programa N°4 de la temporada 2016 de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile, denominado “Un nuevo espíritu”, que se presentará el viernes 15 y sábado 16 de abril a las 19:40 hrs.
Twitter is fast turning into an effective political tool. As political parties fight another round of electoral battles, a new survey on the 2014 general elections states that those who tweeted well, fared well.
The article by T.V. Jayan, Smitha Verma,Sonia Sarkar and V. Kumara Swamy quoted Sumandro Chattapadhyay. Click to read the original published by Telegraph on April 10.
The government has decided to stop issuing new smart cards to beneficiaries of government schemes as Aadhaar is now backed by a law.
The article by Somesh Jha was published in the Hindu on April 10, 2016. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
Springwise: “The battle to clean up the air of major cities is well underway, with businesses and politicians pledging to help with the pollution issue. We have seen projects using mobile air sensors mounted on pigeons to bring the problem to public attention, and now a new crowdsourcing campaign is attempting to map the UK’s air pollution.
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Ethics as the Root of Privacy and the Future of Data Protection
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On Tuesday, 19 April 2016, MIT’s Internet Policy Research Initiative (IPRI), MIT Media Lab and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University are proud to host the European Data Protection Supervisor, Giovanni Buttarelli for an intimate discussion about the changing landscape of data collection and usage, and the global impact it has on the individual.
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Regan Penaluna at Nautilus: “Jill Viles, an Iowa mother, was born with a rare type of muscular dystrophy. The symptoms weren’t really noticeable until preschool, when she began to fall while walking. She saw doctors, but they couldn’t diagnose her or supply a remedy. When she left for college, she was 5-foot-3 and weighed just 87 pounds.
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with Peter S. Menell, the Koret Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law and a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
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What ties together cheerleader outfits, monkey selfies, the Batmobile, a chicken sandwich, Yoga, and Yoda? Professor Peter Menell will provide an exhilarating copyright year in review.
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Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities on 19 April 2016 at 16:56PM We’re very pleased that all of the project case studies are now available to read online. We posted before about the first five case studies when we added them to our institutional repository. Now the other five have joined them. … Continue reading → [...]
Paper by Leonidas G. Anthopoulos and Christopher G. Reddick: “Smart City is an emerging and multidisciplinary domain. It has been recently defined as innovation, not necessarily but mainly through information and communications technologies (ICT), which enhance urban life in terms of people, living, economy, mobility and governance. Smart government is also an emerging topic, which attracts increasing attention from scholars who work in public administration, political and information sciences.
En Washington DC, en tiempo de elecciones
Los alumnos del Máster en Comunicación Política y Corporativa realizaron una estancia profesional de cuatro semanas en la capital estadounidense
19/04/16 15:58
Ignacio Dávila
Chapter by Thakuriah, P., Dirks, L., and Keita, Y. in Seeing Cities Through Big Data: Research Methods and Applications in Urban Informatics (forthcoming): “This paper assesses non-traditional urban digital infomediaries who are pushing the agenda of urban Big Data and Open Data. Our analysis identified a mix of private, public, non-profit and informal infomediaries, ranging from very large organizations to independent developers.
USA Gov: “There’s an app for everything in this digital age, including hundredsdeveloped by the federal government. Here are six apps that we foundespecially useful.
Jens-Erik Mai in The Information Society: “In the age of big data we need to think differently about privacy. We need to shift our thinking from definitions of privacy (characteristics of privacy) to models of privacy (how privacy works). Moreover, in addition to the existing models of privacy—surveillance model and capture model, we need to also consider a new model —the datafication model presented in this paper, wherein new personal information is deduced by employing predictive analytics on already-gathered data.
Q and A: “The e-Government Action Plan includes 20 initiatives to be launched in 2016 and 2017 (full list). Several of them aim to accelerate the implementation of existing legislation and related take-up of online public services. The Commission will notably support the transition of Member States towards full e-procurement, use of contract registers and interoperable e-signatures.
Customer acquisition is one of the biggest challenges that German or European Internet-enabled Startups face. The article discusses three factors (customers, competitors, ressources) to consider when deciding on sales and... MORE
Quetta, Internet Policy Observatory Pakistan (iPOP) has claimed that passing of Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill 2015 will be detrimental for the growth and development of the internet in the country. Given the important role internet is set to play for economic development in Pakistan it is horrendous to see the despotic bill passed during presence of handful of parliamentarians in National Assembly.
Ana Hormaetxea profundiza en el mercado audiovisual con los alumnos del Máster en Guión
Hormaetxea mostró a los futuros guionistas cómo se articula el mercado laboral en la industria audiovisual
19/04/16 13:59
Amaia Urra