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Skills for a Lifetime

Nate Silver’s commencement address at Kenyon College: “….Power has shifted toward people and companies with a lot of proficiency in data science.

The 2018 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals: an all-new visual guide to data and development

Stellungnahme des Universitätsklinikums Düsseldorf zur aktuellen Berichterstattung

Die Inanspruchnahme unserer Zentralen Notaufnahme ist in den letzten Jahren stetig angestiegen. So kamen 2017 rund 44.000 Menschen in unsere Zentrale Notaufnahme. Für Patienten, die nicht unmittelbar weiter verlegt werden können, gibt es einen Kurzliegerbereich in der Notaufnahme. Ziel des UKD ist die schnelle weitere Versorgung der Patienten in den nachgelagerten anderen Klinikbereichen.Ist eine direkte Verlegung und weitere Versorgung allerdings nicht möglich, weil z.B.

To Tackle the VPNFilter Botnet, It’s Going to Take Help from You and Me

If you’ve been reading the news lately, you might have seen headlines like “FBI to America: Reboot Your Routers, Right Now” or “F.B.I.’s Urgent Request: Reboot Your Router to Stop Russia-Linked Malware”. These headlines can be pretty alarming, and you may find yourself thinking, “things must be pretty bad if the FBI is putting out such an urgent warning.”

Connecting the Unconnected: The Land of Zero Connect

As we move to a more digitally-connected world, the need for Internet access has never been greater. In many parts of the world, the Internet has firmly established itself as a core part of everyday life – and this holds true for everyone from kids to adults to senior citizens. Yet, there remain communities and places around the world that are still offline. In some instances, these are probably the hardest locations to connect.

Genomsequenzierung von multiresistenten Erregern bringt Transparenz bei Übertragungswegen

2017 wurde dieser Keim zweimal in das UKD eingetragen. Ein Typ des Erregers wurde seit Ende Oktober 2017 bei insgesamt 16 Patienten nachgewiesen. Der zweite Typ des Keimes wurde seit Dezember bei sechs Patienten festgestellt. Darüber hinaus half die genetische Untersuchung, die Übertragungsketten im UKD aufzuklären und zu unterbrechen, so dass seit dem 6.

Científicos son invitados a compartir sus laboratorios con estudiantes

"Un Día con un Científic@" es una iniciativa que busca fortalecer la vocación de jóvenes de educación media de la Región Metropolitana a través de una experiencia práctica, en la que los estudiantes seleccionados podrán compartir con un profesional ligado a las ciencias, conocer el ejercicio de la carrera en nuestro país y las motivaciones que lo impulsaron a seguir su profesión.Carlos González, es estudiante de doctorado en Ingeniería Eléctrica de la Universidad de Chile y uno de los responsables de las investigaciones del primer satélite chileno SUCHAI.

"La víctima de delitos sexuales siempre ha tenido más obstáculos"

La psicóloga jurídica de nuestro plantel se refiere a las variables que determinan la "latencia", es decir el tiempo que las personas demoran en denunciar las agresiones sexuales, que en el 85 por ciento de los casos se da en contextos de confianza.

La Red de Ues del Estado y los CFT estatales son una gran oportunidad

Durante su presentación en la Comisión de Educación del Senado por el proyecto que amplía la gratuidad en Centros de Formación Técnica e Institutos Profesionales, el Rector abogó por que los estudiantes de los CFT estatales, recientemente creados por ley, también puedan adscribirse a este beneficio. Al mismo tiempo, se refirió a las potencialidades de que se articule la Educación Media Técnico Profesional (EMTP), la Educación Superior Técnica Profesional y Educación Universitaria estatal.Durante la sesión de la Comisión de Educación del Senado, el Rector de la U.

hochschulradio düsseldorf feiert 18. Geburtstag

Am 30. Mai 2018 zeigt das hochschulradio düsseldorf ab 6 Uhr morgens alle Facetten seines Programms und versorgt die Hörerinnen und Hörer nicht nur mit aktuellen Nachrichten und Berichten, sondern auch mit Rückblicken auf die vergangenen 18 Jahre. Es kommen auch ehemalige Studierende zu Wort, die das hochschulradio düsseldorf mitgeprägt haben.
Das hochschulradio düsseldorf freut sich außerdem über viele Studiogäste wie Oberbürgermeister Thomas Geisel, die Rektorin der Heinrich-Heine-Universität und die Präsidentin der HSD.

Digital Government Review of Colombia

OECD Report: “This review analyses the shift from e-government to digital government in Colombia. It looks at the governance framework for digital government, the use of digital platforms and open data to engage and collaborate with citizens, conditions for a data-driven public sector, and policy coherence in a context of significant regional disparities.

What kind of Evidence Influences local officials? A great example from Guatemala

Paper  by Walter Flores: “Between 2007 and up to now, we have implemented five different methods for gathering evidence:
1) Surveys of health clinics with random sampling,
2) Surveys using tracers and convenience-based sampling,
3) Life histories of the users of health services,
4) User complaints submitted via text messages,
5) Video and photography documenting service delivery problems.

Plunging response rates to household surveys worry policymakers

The Economist: “Response rates to surveys are plummeting all across the rich world. Last year only around 43% of households contacted by the British government responded to the LFS, down from 70% in 2001 (see chart). In America the share of households responding to the Current Population Survey (CPS) has fallen from 94% to 85% over the same period. The rest of Europe and Canada have seen similar trends.

Data Activism

Special Issue of Krisis: Journal of Contemporary Philosophy: “Digital data increasingly plays a central role in contemporary politics and public life. Citizen voices are increasingly mediated by proprietary social media platforms and are shaped by algorithmic ranking and re-ordering, but data informs how states act, too. This special issue wants to shift the focus of the conversation.

As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 70, it’s time to resurrect its vision of global sharing and justice

What are the political implications of meeting the established human right for everyone to enjoy an adequate standard of living? In short, it necessitates a redistribution of wealth and resources on an unprecedented scale across the world, which is why activists should resurrect the United Nations’ radical vision for achieving Article 25.

Creating Eco-Societies through Urban Commons Transitions, with Michel Bauwens and Elena De Nictolis

Join the P2P Foundation‘s Michel Bauwens and LabGov‘s Elena De Nictolis for this special event on Urban Commons Transitions. The event is organized by our colleagues at Oikos.be and the following text is taken from their website.

“KONICHIWA!” – M.A. students visit Waseda University and INTAGE in Tokyo, Japan


This 19 to 22 May 2018, MA students from the Strategic Communication Management program raveled t Tokyo,Japan to learn about new customer-centric approaches in Japanese marketing research as well as current social and cultural trends. The trip was led by Ajarn Jessada Salathong, PhD, who has much experience in Japan as a student and communication practitioner working in Japan,

What's Next: Max Schrems and Why Your Privacy Policy Still Doesn't Cut It

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Public Policy in an AI Economy

NBER Working Paper by Austan Goolsbee: “This paper considers the role of policy in an AI-intensive economy (interpreting AI broadly). It emphasizes the speed of adoption of the technology for the impact on the job market and the implications for inequality across people and across places.

Policy experimentation: core concepts, political dynamics, governance and impacts

Article by Dave Huitema, Andrew Jordan, Stefania Munaretto and Mikael Hildén in Policy Sciences: “In the last two decades, many areas of the social sciences have embraced an ‘experimentalist turn’.