El pasado fin de semana, el académico de la Clínica Psiquiátrica de la U. de Chile y de la Facultad Medicina de nuestro plantel, fue notificado por haber obtenido el Premio Gerald L. Klerman Investigador Joven 2020, entregado por el Consejo Asesor Científico de la Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) ,organización que anualmente entrega este galardón a investigadores del ámbito de la salud mental, cuyo trabajo promueve el conocimiento de las causas, el diagnóstico y el tratamiento de la depresión y el trastorno bipolar.

La rápida expansión de la enfermedad COVID-19 durante las últimas semanas no sólo ha golpeado a los sistemas de salud, sino también a la economía mundial, primero por la paralización de la producción en países como China o Corea del Sur, y luego por sus efectos en la Unión Europea y Estados Unidos, siendo quizás la cara más dramática las constantes caídas de los mercados bursátiles.

Organizaciones feministas y organismos internacionales han puesto las alertas sobre otra de las consecuencias del COVID-19 en el mundo: ante el confinamiento domiciliario, esta expresión de la violencia se agudiza, tal como ha ocurrido ya en China y en algunos países de Europa.

On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

As billions of us move into self-isolation, one thing is crystal clear: Internet access is critical. If anyone of us took it for granted before, COVID-19 has changed everything and rocketed the world into a new era. So it’s even more critical we build an Internet for everyone.

But we’ll only get there
if we bring more diversity to the table when it comes to building infrastructure,
developing sound policy, and creating the communities needed.

For many weeks now, as the pandemic caused by the
coronavirus has spread around the world, people have been isolating themselves
to reduce the spread of infection. Businesses and schools have closed, and whole
cities have been ordered to stay indoors. People’s livelihoods have
disappeared, and of course, far too many people have been critically ill or
have died. It is a calamity. Yet it would be much worse, if it were not for the
Internet.

This interview was originally published in Technical.ly.

The Internet has long been a connector beyond the physical. Now, it’s the only reason people are able to see their faraway loved ones and complete remote projects with their coworkers amid pandemic-prompted social distancing. It’s a great moment for the technology — and for hackers.

Götz wollte mit seinem Test herausfinden, in welchem Ausmaß Personen über ein bestimmtes visuelles Urteilsvermögen verfügen – eine zur damaligen Zeit neuartige Forschungsfrage, die Psychologie und (empirische) Ästhetik verbinden sollte. Erste Tests konnten damals durchgeführt werden; auch bestand eine fruchtbare und rege Zusammenarbeit mit den Psychologen Berlyne und Eysenck.Die w/k-Redaktion interessiert, ob heute, viele Jahre später, am Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity Test erneut Interesse besteht, ob die Auseinandersetzung mit ihm fruchtbar werden könnte.

Berlin, 8 April 2020 – What will our digital society look like in 2040? How will we live and love, how will we teach and work, and how will our legal system change? Researchers from 10 countries took a look into the future as part of the “twentyforty” project. The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for…
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Considerando lo inédito de este inicio de periodo académico a propósito de la crisis sanitaria y las medidas de aislamiento social dispuestas por nuestro plantel y por las autoridades gubernamentales, la U. de Chile, a través de la Unidad de Aprendizaje del Departamento de Pregrado, ha dispuesto de diversos canales para apoyar los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje de sus estudiantes.

On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

The DLT4EU program is about to launch its Call for Applicants. The applications will be possible from 14th April to 6th May and links to the registration of online interest form will be soon available on this website. To register interest and be considered for applying, teams must apply before 6th May 2020 (11:59pm GMT).

Confira as ações simultâneas da FGV e da FGV Direito Rio, tomadas em função da Pandemia do COVID-19, para manter a comunidade acadêmica atualizada.
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On December 06, 2019, Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi participated in a "Stakeholder Consultation on Digital Assets for Women’s Economic Empowerment: Addressing Barriers and Enhancing Opportunities for Women in Informal Economy and in Agriculture".

In recent weeks, social life has been increasingly restricted: Avoiding meetings, keeping distance, staying home, closing businesses. All in the service of social solidarity with the (potential) victims of the Sars-2 Covid 19 virus. Since these restrictions are accompanied by comprehensive challenges for people in Germany, Europe and the world, there are critics everywhere who question such a demand for solidarity and instead plead for a return to normality in order to protect the economy, future prosperity and the damages caused by the quarantine measures.

As the Covid-19 virus continues to spread across the world, governments are adopting surveillance measures to track patients, raising privacy concerns. Lebanon, like many other countries, has launched digital tools to help diagnose and monitor the spread of the outbreak. The tools launched by the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health[...]