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Announcing the Final Candidate Slates for the 2021 Board of Trustees Elections

On behalf of the 2020-2021 Nominations Committee, I am pleased to announce the final slates of candidates for the 2021 Internet Society Board of Trustees elections. Chapters Election As announced to this community on March 1, we received the required number of signatures in support of Glenn McKnight’s petition to stand as a candidate in […]

Project Rewrite: Tell the missing stories of women on Wikipedia and beyond

Think of a historical event, one you learned about in school. Maybe an expedition, a treaty, or a speech. How about a years-long atrocity, or a record-breaking achievement? When you picture this event, who are the central characters?
Now, ask yourself if you know the women’s side of the story.
For as long as written history, women have far too often been left out of the record. And in a world that tells us to stay quiet, telling women’s stories is a radical act.

Palestra do professor Mario Telò inaugura quarta edição da EU-South American Schoon on Global Governance

O curso EU-South American School on Global Governance, que acaba de concluir um acirrado processo seletivo (veja a notícia aqui), promoveu sua aula inaugural na última quarta-feira, dia 3 de março. Realizado pelo Centro de Excelência Jean Monnet, o curso é financiado pelo Programa Erasmus+ da Comissão Europeia e coordenado pela professora Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida.

Not the Encryption Apocalypse…Yet

“This destroys the RSA cryptosystem.” That is the last sentence in the abstract of a new, preliminary, dense mathematical paper published by renowned mathematician Claus Peter Schnorr. If this turns out to be true, it will mean bad news for anybody who relies on the underpinnings of encryption – which is everyone! The paper, posted […]
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​NTU Singapore and Education Services Union commit $500,000 to boost employees’ digital skills

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​NTU Singapore study finds link between empathy and care for the environment

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Roundtable dialogues for the future of AI in Europe

With the publication of its White Paper on Artificial Intelligence in February 2020, the European Commission launched a broad consultation process and invited key figures in civil society, industry representatives and researchers to contribute proposals for a European approach to AI.
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How to rebuild a digital society festival like re:publica resilient? [Bread&Net 2020 Session]

In this #BreadandNet 2020 session Andreas Gebhard,co-founder and CEO of re:publica, Berlin https://re-publica.com/en, shares his experience since large scale events had to turn their strategy 100% in 2020. How will we meet in the future beyond Covid and borders? Are we facing a golden age of hybrid decentralized global gatherings?[...]

The Week in Internet News: Lawmakers Point to ‘Extremist’ Content on YouTube

Extreme video: A group of Democratic lawmakers in the U.S. has demanded that YouTube explain its policies related to dealing with extremist content, Yahoo News reports. “Incendiary content that indoctrinates, radicalizes, and mobilizes extremists continues to flourish” on YouTube, the lawmakers wrote. Blaming encryption: Meanwhile, a new government report on possible extremist attacks on the […]

Processo Seletivo Bolsista Projeto “e-Commerce: Regulação e Novos Modelos de Negócio”

Edital de Seleção de Assistente de Pesquisa para o Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade
A FGV DIREITO RIO comunica a abertura do processo de seleção para um(a) mestrando(a)/mestre interessado(a) em participar como Assistente de Pesquisa no Projeto E-commerce: Regulação e novos modelos de negócio coordenado pelo Professor Nicolo Zingales.
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O presente Edital tem por objetivo regular o processo de escolha de um(a) mestrando(a)/mestre em Direito para receber bolsa de pesquisa.

LegalAIIA 2021 | 2nd International Workshop on AI and Intelligent Assistance for Legal Professionals in the Digital Workplace, Jun 21, 2021

The LegalAIIA 2021 workshop on June 21, 2021, will provide a platform for examining questions surrounding “AI as human augmentation” for legal tasks (a.k.a. Intelligent Assistance or IA), particularly those related to legal practitioners’ interaction with digital information, including e-discovery. The focus of the workshop will be on better understanding the interaction between human and AI capabilities. The primary audience for the workshop will include working attorneys, legal researchers, computer science researchers, and AI providers in the legal industry.

Programa para el fortalecimiento de la sociedad civil en el debate público digital sobre paz

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Débats 5G. Quels apports de la recherche ?

Ce document de synthèse sur les débats publics autour de la 5G a été réalisé par Édouard Bouté (COSTECH-UTC).
L’article Débats 5G. Quels apports de la recherche ? est apparu en premier sur Centre Internet et Société.

Blog: Embedding ethics into every step of emerging technologies

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This International Women’s Day, Amplify the Voices, Perspectives and Experiences of Women in Tech

For over one hundred years, International Women’s Day has been commemorated as a day to celebrate and uplift people identifying as women around the world. In 2021, across the fields of technology competitiveness, innovation readiness and global talent (the Portulans Institute’s three focus areas) it is more urgent and important than ever to center, include and integrate women’s voices, perspectives and experiences.

Informe ICOVID 29: niveles críticos en la ocupación de camas UCI

Según este último informe, la ocupación de camas UCI a nivel nacional se mantiene en nivel rojo, con 13 de 16 regiones en porcentajes críticos. Entre los casos más dramáticos están La Araucanía con 97,4%, Coquimbo con 96,2%, la Región Metropolitana 93,7%, y Valparaíso con 93.5%. En tanto, en lo que respecta a la carga de contagios, todas las regiones del país se mantienen en nivel rojo, esto es por sobre 10 casos nuevos por cada 100 mil habitantes.

ICOVID N°28: Retrocesos en la contención de la pandemia

Tras dos semanas con tendencia a la baja, el número de casos nuevos a nivel nacional vuelve a aumentar de manera significativa.

Sistema puede ser clave para determinar eficacia de anticuerpos

Un sistema que utiliza el virus del VIH inactivo, la proteína de superficie Spike del SARS-CoV-2 y la proteína que permite a las luciérnagas emitir luz, puede ser clave para determinar la eficacia tanto de las vacunas, como de la inmunidad de los recuperados de Covid-19, en contra de las nuevas variantes del virus. El sistema desarrollado por un equipo de la Facultad de Medicina de la Casa de Bello permite medir los anticuerpos neutralizantes. Actualmente el sistema e información utilizados en esta iniciativa ya han sido solicitados por países como Paraguay, Ecuador y Noruega.

U. de Chile despide al profesor Uwe Kramp Denegri

Kramp fue académico del Departamento de Psicología de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales en diversos ámbitos disciplinarios, ocupando también el rol de Director del Centro de Psicología Aplicada (CAPs). La comunidad universitaria despide al académico Uwe Kramp Denegri. "Quiero transmitir a su familia, en nombre de la comunidad de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Chile, nuestras sinceras condolencias", señaló en un comunicado el decano de dicha unidad académica, Roberto Aceituno.

U. de Chile recibió a miles de jóvenes en el primer día de SVP 2021

Más de siete mil personas ingresaron durante las primeras horas de este jueves a futuromechon.cl, epicentro informativo de la U. de Chile y plataforma de ayuda al proceso de admisión a la educación superior, donde hubo charlas, transmisiones en vivo, chat online con respuestas a dudas de carreras, financiamiento, vida universitaria, ingresos especiales y más.