Other News from Participating Centers

Alert – Web server host migration on June 19, 2018

As you may have noticed, our shiny new website has some speed issues. It is slow for many visitors. Over the past few months we’ve worked on a number of potential changes to improve the site performance. One major change we’re making is to move to a different hosting provider.
That change will happen tomorrow – Tuesday, 19 June 2018 at 13:00 UTC.

Streaming online: o que é e qual a sua natureza jurídica?

Você muito provavelmente já consumiu conteúdo online por meio de serviços de streaming. YouTube, Spotify e Netflix são exemplos de serviços que utilizam essa técnica para distribuir seu conteúdo para os usuários. Mas, afinal, o que exatamente é essa tecnologia tão presente em nossas vidas? Este texto busca fazer uma breve exposição sobre o tema, bem como analisar de forma crítica qual a natureza jurídica do streaming no sistema jurídico brasileiro.
 
O conceito de streaming

Reflecting on the Internet Society’s 2017 Asia-Pacific Activities

The Asia-Pacific Bureau has been producing an annual snapshot of its activities and initiatives for a couple of years now, and we are pleased to present the 2017 edition. While it is not meant to be an exhaustive record of all that we did, it does provide a good overview of our activities in the region.

Professor da FGV Direito Rio participa da I Conferência “A juventude e o futuro do Brasil"

Ivar Hartmann falou sobre o Judiciário no século XXINa última semana o professor da FGV Direito Rio e coordenador do projeto Supremo em Números, Ivar Hartmann, participou da I Conferência “A juventude e o futuro do Brasil” realizada no Colégio de Aplicação da Universidade Federal de Viçosa (CAp-COLUNI/UFV). O docente falou sobre o Judiciário no século XXI.

Professor da FGV Direito Rio participa da I Conferência “A juventude e o futuro do Brasil"

Ivar Hartmann falou sobre o Judiciário no século XXINa última semana o professor da FGV Direito Rio e coordenador do projeto Supremo em Números, Ivar Hartmann, participou da I Conferência “A juventude e o futuro do Brasil” realizada no Colégio de Aplicação da Universidade Federal de Viçosa (CAp-COLUNI/UFV). O docente falou sobre o Judiciário no século XXI.

Livro Direito Internacional Privado nas Fronteiras do Trabalho e Tecnologias: Ensaios e Narrativas na Era Digital


Silber für Clip in der Kategorie Wissenschaft und Bildung für „0-2-11x Darum Düsseldorf“

Während ganztägiger Live-Pitches präsentierten die Nominierten ihre Projekte vor einer Jury aus namenhaften Vertretern und Vertreterinnen der Branche.

Open call for ideas: Crowdsourcing open source agricultural solutions

The P2P Lab is happy to announce the launch of “The cultiMake project: Crowdsourcing open source agricultural solutions”, celebrating the gathering of designers, makers and farmers who are adapting to the digitised world.
This 5-day workshop will be hosted at the intercultural makerspace “Habibi.Works”, which is located in Ioannina (Greece).
More details on this call, along with the application form may be found in the following document.

Net Neutrality Round Table

Debates regarding net neutrality regulation in the United States have been carried out for over a decade. Rulemakings by the FCC have been passed numerous times, won and lost in court, and been repealed, resulting in years of political back and forth. Now, net neutrality is being argued for and against on Capitol Hill and its regulatory future is unclear.

The Week in Internet News: X-Ray I

AI to get X-ray vision: Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory are getting close to creating AI that can see through walls, Geek.com reported. The research team is using AI to analyze radio signals bouncing off human bodies. The result is a neural network-generated stick figure that moves like the targeted person does.

Educación no sexista: ¿Con qué medidas hay que implementarla?

Ante el anuncio de la creación de una mesa de trabajo del Mineduc para avanzar en educación no sexista, académicas e investigadoras de la U. de Chile entregan sus propuestas para materializar este enfoque tanto en la educación escolar como superior.

Arquitectura y arte: maquetas de museos de todo el mundo llegan al MAC

Modelos a escala del Museo Nacional de Arte Oriental de Japón, del Museo Solomon R. Guggenheim de Nueva York y del Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos de Chile, son parte de la muestra "El lugar del arte: Obras emblemáticas arquitectónicas destinadas al arte", exposición que abrirá sus puertas este 8 de junio en el MAC Parque Forestal, y que se enmarca en un taller de proyectos de estudiantes de segundo año de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Chile (FAU).

Casa de Bello lidera cobertura de prensa internacional en ciencias

Avances en el desarrollo de curas contra el cáncer, proyectos asociados al cambio climático y la simulación de agujeros negros en un laboratorio fueron algunos de los trabajos impulsados por académicos de la Casa de Bello que más recibieron cobertura periodística desde el extranjero.

Las lluvias a lo largo y ancho de Chile explicadas en 10 datos

Se habla de sequía y de pocos eventos lluviosos, en la zona centro sur del país, pero, ¿qué pasa con el resto del territorio? Para comprender el panorama hidroclimático desde Visviri a Puerto Williams, académicos e investigadores de la U. de Chile indican los puntos clave en los cuales fijarse para entender cómo se dan las lluvias en el panorama global del territorio. 1. El desierto ya no está sólo en el Norte

AI Nationalism

Blog by Ian Hogarth: “The central prediction I want to make and defend in this post is that continued rapid progress in machine learning will drive the emergence of a new kind of geopolitics; I have been calling it AI Nationalism. Machine learning is an omni-use technology that will come to touch all sectors and parts of society.

Big Data and AI – A transformational shift for government: So, what next for research?

Irina Pencheva, Marc Esteve and Slava Jenkin Mikhaylov in Public Policy and Administration: “Big Data and artificial intelligence will have a profound transformational impact on governments around the world. Thus, it is important for scholars to provide a useful analysis on the topic to public managers and policymakers. This study offers an in-depth review of the Policy and Administration literature on the role of Big Data and advanced analytics in the public sector.

​NTU Singapore counts fifth year as world’s top young university

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Launch of the blog series “Norms and Digitalization”

In the following weeks, we will post a number of articles on the topic by scholars from Germany and Europe.Check out the first reading and be sure to revisit the blog in the next weeks: https://www.sicherheitspolitik-blog.de/ In the course of forming the global information society, the implementation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has been realized in many parts of the world.

Blair Evans on the Synergy between Permaculture, Digital Fabrication and Autonomous Production by Disadvantaged Communities

Platform Coops’ Governance (I): Challenges

As I wrote in my previous post, we can build Platform Coops mainly based on thin relationships that follow maximizing individual self-interest, or based mainly on thick relationships that follow social and emotional engagement (always expect, though, a combination of the two). While governance is not the only factor that shapes relationships, it is nevertheless the most decisive to do it.