Other News from Participating Centers

Behavioural science and policy: where are we now and where are we going?

Michael Sanders et al in Behavioral Public Policy: “The use of behavioural sciences in government has expanded and matured in the last decade. Since the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) has been part of this movement, we sketch out the history of the team and the current state of behavioural public policy, recognising that other works have already told this story in detail.

Viral videos to challenge victim-blaming cultures

Youth and privacy in the Americas: Pensamiento Colectivo, Uruguay How do youth allies promote young people’s critical thinking on privacy, in informal learning contexts in the Americas? This blog post is part of a series showcasing the work of different organizations at the intersection of youth development, digital rights, and online safety. Quick facts Who: Luciana Almirón, Tania De Tomás, Cecilia López Hugo, Andrea Salle, Leticia Brandino and Agustina López from Pensamiento Colectivo What: Campaigning […]

Codesign and intersectionality to revitalize digital literacy

Youth and privacy in the Americas: eQuality Project, Canada How do youth allies promote young people’s critical thinking on privacy, in informal learning contexts in the Americas? This blog post is part of a series showcasing the work of different organizations at the intersection of youth development, digital rights, and online safety. Quick facts Who: Valerie Steeves and Jane Bailey from eQuality Project at the University of Ottawa What: Research, policy, school and community resources […]

Brett Scott: Hardcoding ethics into fintech – Conscious FinTech Talk

“A significant amount of fintech innovation can best be understood as the automation of traditional finance“

DataDriven: cómo el marketing busca cuidar al cliente y sus datos

Aunque muchas veces se ha pensado que el producto es clave para definir estrategias de negocios u organizaciones, en los últimos años se ha ido consolidando la importancia de la data -corpus que incluye desde los datos personales hasta información sobre las preferencias de consumo- para la toma de decisiones, haciendo que la cultura gire alrededor del cliente y con ello, la posibilidad de advertir cambios pueda ser más ágil.Probablemente la gran mayoría de los usuarios de correo electrónico ha recibido una comunicación desde algún medio o empresa indicando que la nueva Reg

Odd Numbers: Algorithms alone can’t meaningfully hold other algorithms accountable

Frank Pasquale at Real Life Magazine: “Algorithms increasingly govern our social world, transforming data into scores or rankings that decide who gets credit, jobs, dates, policing, and much more.

Indra Adnan On Is Politics Broken? (And Here Is The Alternative)

https://episodes.castos.com/OuiShare/Indra-and-bernie-finished-1-1-.mp3
 
Indra Adnan is Co-Initiator of The Alternative UK – part of a global network of political platforms originating with Alternativet in Denmark.
Her commitment is to grassroots politics that release the power of people and communities in ways that sustain the planet.

Privacy awareness for a healthy internet

Youth and privacy in the Americas: Mozilla Foundation, United States/Global How do youth allies promote young people’s critical thinking on privacy, in informal learning contexts in the Americas? This blog post is part of a series showcasing the work of different organizations at the intersection of youth development, digital rights, and online safety. Quick facts Who: Chad Sansing What: Program development, research, fellowships, curriculum Mission/vision: To keep the internet open and accessible to all Where: […]

U. de Chile entregó Premio Manuel Montt a destacadas publicaciones

La distinción, que otorgan conjuntamente la Casa de Bello y la Fundación Pedro Montt, fue entregada este martes 7 de agosto en una ceremonia realizada en Casa Central.

World War Web

Special issue of Foreign Affairs: “The last few decades have witnessed the growth of an American-sponsored Internet open to all. But that was then; conditions have changed.

Safe Online, Safe On Land: Promoting Safe Internet Use to Children in Kenya

On February 16th this year, MediaNet Works and the Internet Society Kenya Chapter launched “Safe Online, Safe On Land” a 12-month project that seeks to promote safe Internet usage and practices among children in Kenya.

Big Brother is Watching But He Doesn’t Understand: Why Forced Filtering Technology on the Internet Isn’t the Solution to the Modern Copyright Dilemma

by Mitchell Longan[1] Introduction The European Parliament is currently considering a proposal to address problems of piracy and other forms of copyright infringement associated with the digital world.[2] Article 13 of the proposed Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single

Vortrag des Nobelpreisträgers und Prionenforschers Stanley B. Prusiner

Mit der Entdeckung der Prionen lieferte er eine Erklärung für die „Rinderwahnsinn“ bzw. BSE genannte bovine spongiforme Enzephalopathie, deren Äquivalent beim Menschen die Creutzsfeld-Jakob-Krankheit ist. Prof. Prusiner ist Direktor des Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases an seiner Universität.

Un profesor de la Universidad, galardonado en Estados Unidos con el Napolitan Victory Award

Un profesor de la Universidad, galardonado en Estados Unidos con el Napolitan Victory Award
Estos premios, conocidos como los “Oscar de la comunicación política”, reconocen la labor docente de Roberto Rodríguez Andrés

Roberto Rodríguez.
FOTO: Manuel Castells

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María Salanova

The Lucas Plan: a Documentary

The Plan That Came From The Bottom Up
40 years ago a group of skilled engineers at Lucas Aerospace UK, when threatened with redundancy, responded with an ambitious plan to make better use of their talents – designing what they called socially useful and environmentally sustainable alternatives to the military products their company made.

Climate breakdown: where is the left?

Republished from New Economics Foundation
Climate change is fuelling record temperatures and sweeping fires, but the progressive response is lacking.

The Risks of Dangerous Dashboards in Basic Education

Lant Pritchett at the Center for Global Development: “On June 1, 2009 Air France flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed into the Atlantic Ocean killing all 228 people on board. While the Airbus 330 was flying on auto-pilot, the different speed indicators received by the on-board navigation computers started to give conflicting speeds, almost certainly because the pitot tubes responsible for measuring air speed had iced over.

Palestra de Apresentação do Mestrado em Direito da Regulação

Palestra de Apresentação do Mestrado em Direito da Regulação19h00O Evento: A FGV Direito Rio realiza, no dia 12 de setembro, a palestra de apresentação do Mestrado em Direito da Regulação. O evento tem como objetivo apresentar o curso e esclarecer dúvidas dos candidatos que desejam ingressar na turma de 2019.

U. de Chile licenció software para reducir gasto de energía el metro

Utilizar menos energía. Ese es uno de los objetivos del proyecto "Integración óptima de energía solar en la planificación y operación de sistemas de transporte público urbano ferroviario", desarrollado por investigadores del Centro de Modelamiento Matemático (CMM), el Centro de Energía y el Centro de Energía Solar de la Universidad de Chile.

Fotografía y mujeres: Catalina Martin-Chico llegó al MAC

Este jueves 2 de agosto, el director del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), de la U. de Chile, Francisco Brugnoli, junto a la vicerrectora de Extensión y Comunicaciones de nuestro plantel, Faride Zeran, lideraron la inauguración de la muestra de la destacada fotógrafa franco-española, quien a través de su lente retrata un puñado de historias de mujeres en contextos de peligro. Mañana sábado 4 de agosto, Martin-Chico dictará una conferencia abierta a todo público en dicha sede del museo."Quiero agradecerles por estar aquí y compartir este momento conmigo.