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To Catch the Rain is a book of inspiring stories of communities coming together to catch their own rain, with the nitty-gritty details so you can do it as well.
Hannah Norman at Yes! Magazine: “When Teresa Salazar first encountered the notice posted to her front door—which offered tenants $10,000 to move out of their East Oakland, California, apartment building—she knew the place she called home was in jeopardy.
Essay by Michael Batty at Urban Analytics and City Sciences: “…The notion of the smart city of course conjures up these images of such an automated future.
Book by Jeffrey Alan Johnson: “…presents a theory of information justice that subsumes the question of control and relates it to other issues that influence just social outcomes. Data does not exist by nature. Bureaucratic societies must provide standardized inputs for governing algorithms, a problem that can be understood as one of legibility.
Shane Hickey at the Guardian: “This week sees the beginning of a quiet revolution in banking which some have championed as one of the greatest shake-ups in personal finance in years, while others have warned it could have serious implications for people’s private data.
David Zipper at City Lab: “How, exactly, should policymakers respond to the rapid rise of new private mobility services such as ride-hailing, dockless shared bicycles, and microtransit? … The most likely solution is via a data exchange that anonymizes rider data and gives public experts (and perhaps academic and private ones too) the ability to answer policy questions.
Galit A. Sarfaty in the Journal of International Law: “International human rights efforts have been overly reliant on reactive tools and focused on treaty compliance, while often underemphasizing the prevention of human rights violations. I argue that data analytics can play an important role in refocusing the international human rights regime on its original goal of preventing human rights abuses, but it comes at a cost.
Playing for Team Human today is Stacco Troncoso of the P2P Foundation. Stacco brings with him deep knowledge and enthusiasm for the power of the commons. Stacco and the Commons Transition team put their faith in people, believing in the potential of diverse, empowered communities to address complex problems.
Hugo Guyader and Julian Agyeman: Analysis: The sharing economy is often lauded with offering a number of opportunities, from access to cheaper and more convenient consumption alternatives to new revenue streams for on-demand services. Next to the economic benefits are promises of sustainability and social inclusion. Unfortunately, not everybody stands equal in this emerging economy. Several academic papers have started to document evidence of discrimination in the sharing economy. Here we focus on racial discrimination.
Democrats in the USA haven’t given up on net neutrality since the FCC voted to repeal the 2015 Open Internet Order in December.
Senator Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, has put forward a bill that would use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to reverse the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision. The CRA allows lawmakers 60 legislative days after the FCC submits its regulations to Congress to take action.
That bill now has the support of more than 40 Senators, including Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine), its first Republican supporter.
Abertura e primeiro painel “Jurisdição, Territorialidade e Direito de Internet” do Workshop Interinstitucional de Pesquisa: Jurisdição e cooperação jurídica internacional nos conflitos da internet.
To keep pace with the rapidly developing landscape of military technologies, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is reportedly changing its approach to cyber warfare. NATO, a primarily defensive alliance so far, is considering the adoption of offensive cyber warfare strategies to confront hacking attacks from its opponents. Member states including United States, Germany, Spain, […]
El tradicional evento universitario, dedicado a los postulantes a la educación superior y sus familias, recibió a más de ocho mil visitantes en cuatro jornadas, donde los futuros estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile recibieron orientación y apoyo por parte de los más de 300 monitores representativos de las diferentes unidades académicas de la casa de estudios.
Un proyecto pionero se está realizando en la Región de la Araucanía para asesorar a cinco comunidades en el manejo productivo de predios restituidos. La iniciativa se ejecuta gracias al Convenio entre la Corporación Nacional de Desarrollo Indígena y la Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas de la U.
Especialistas de diversas disciplinas expondrán iniciativas y propuestas para enfrentar el rápido envejecimiento de la población mundial en la V Escuela Internacional de Verano sobre esta materia, realizada en la U. de Chile. La actividad abordará diversas aristas sobre este fenómeno que representa uno de los principales desafíos de nuestro país.Las Estadísticas Sanitarias Mundiales de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) en 2016 mostraron un envejecimiento acelerado de la población mundial, particularmente en países del mundo desarrollado.
Historia, relaciones internacionales, derecho, política comercial, filosofía, derechos humanos y género y economía son algunas de las áreas que abarca la malla curricular de la nueva carrera de Estudios Internacionales que este año recibe a su primera generación.
Die Studierenden legten nun die Ergebnisse des Projektes vor, das im Oktober 2016 gestartet war: Ernährung muss stärker in den Fokus der professionellen Betreuung rücken und nicht allein als in der Verantwortung des Patienten angesehen werden. Mangelernährung wird häufig nicht oder spät erkannt und braucht dafür spezifische Vorgaben. Die Kommunikation zwischen Ärzten, der Pflege und weiteren Betreuern kann nur klappen, wenn Zuständigkeiten eindeutig geklärt sind und eine leicht erfassbare Verlaufsdokumentation zur Ernährung des individuellen Patienten erfolgt.