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Radio U. de Chile transmitirá conciertos realizados en Sala Master

La iniciativa recoge lo mejor del repertorio grabado en este espacio emblemático para la música chilena, además de una serie de nuevos conciertos. "Queremos estar lo más cerca posible de las casas de nuestros lectores y auditores", indicó el director de nuestro medio de comunicación, Patricio López.

Estudiante imparte taller on line sobre rol de las mujeres en ciencia

Valeska Zambra, estudiante del Magíster en Física de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM) de la U. de Chile y ganadora del Premio Joven Chilena del Año 2019, se encuentra desarrollando esta iniciativa junto al INJUV de la Región de Atacama.

Technology in the Time of COVID-19: Ethical Implications & Rights-Based Concerns

Please join the COVID-19 Technology Task Force for a moderated conversation about the ethical and human rights-focused implications of COVID-19 technology this Friday, May 8th. Read more about Technology in the Time of COVID-19: Ethical Implications & Rights-Based ConcernsMay 8, 2020Virtual Event

Playing with air quality, land ownership and climate data in the UK: Open Data Day 2020 report

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 Facebook Oversight Board: An Experiment in Self-Regulation

An Entire City Has Been Told To Download A Controversial Contact Tracing App

Webinar | Tutelas Emergenciais

Webinar | Tutelas Emergenciais18h30O Evento: O evento, promovido pela FGV Direito Rio, vai discutir os temas de Tutela cautelar, Tutela antecipada e produção antecipada de provas e sobre como atuar nesse período de pandemia COVID-19. O evento contará com a participação dos professores Alexandre Flexa e Marco Antonio Rodrigues, professores convidados do curso LL.M em Direito: Civil e Processual Civil.
 
  Professor Alexandre Flexa
Professor Marco Antonio Rodrigues
 

Escolas de Direito da FGV promovem webinar sobre as medidas emergenciais para a recuperação de empresas

Evento será nesta quinta-feira (07), das 17h às 18h, no canal do Youtube da FGV
As Escolas de Direito da Fundação Getulio Vargas – FGV Direito SP e FGV Direito Rio – realizarão, nesta quinta-feira (07), um webinar sobre as medidas emergenciais para a recuperação das empresas por conta da crise da pandemia do coronavírus.
Cássio Cavalli, professor da FGV Direito SP, moderará o debate dos convidados Alexandre Camara, sócio do BTG responsável pela área de Special Situations, e Marcelo Gomes, diretor geral e SBU Head responsável pela Alvarez & Marsal Brasil.

Hong Kong’s mass arrests are giving police crucial intelligence: people’s phones

Q&A: Sabelo Mhlambi on what AI can learn from Ubuntu ethics

Schwanger während der Corona-Pandemie

Auch wenn schwangere Frauen grundsätzlich nicht zur Risikogruppe bezüglich der Corona-Pandemie zählen, stellen sich viele Fragen für die werdenden Mütter: Ist das Covid-19 Virus gefährlich für mich und das Kind? Darf mein Partner bei der Geburt dabei sein? Wie bereite ich mich jetzt bestmöglich auf die Geburt vor? Werden die Großeltern das neue Enkelkind besuchen können?

You Can Do It! Learn How to Extend the Internet to Your Community

Every day, people around the world are caring for their neighbors by bringing them online. A lifeline for so many, the global COVID-19 has shown us that the Internet is now more important than ever. Yet nearly half the world’s population still has no access.

Driven by the desire to connect their communities in any way they can, people around the world are getting involved and building networks in new and innovative ways that complement traditional Internet/telecommunication access solutions. Do-it-yourself solutions built by the community, for the community.

Digitaler Gastvortrag des Schriftstellers und Übersetzers Jan Wilm

Jan Wilm ist Schriftsteller und Übersetzer, unter anderem der Werke von Maggie Nelson. Er studierte Anglistik und Amerikanistik an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, wo er mit einer Arbeit über J. M. Coetzee promovierte. Seine Essays und Literaturkritiken erscheinen in der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung, der Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, der Los Angeles Review of Books und dem Times Literary Supplement. 2016 erschien von ihm das Buch The Slow Philosophy of J. M. Coetzee, 2019 sein Roman Winterjahrbuch. 

Coronavirus and Web 2.0: Philosophical Questions and Answers by Lorenza Saettone

A new INC essay, Coronavirus and Web 2.0: Philosophical Questions and Answers by Lorenza Saettone, now available, in Italian, here as pdf and here as an e-pub file. Thanks a lot to Tommaso Campagna for the design and technical work.

Using Google Trends to track social responses to COVID-19

Countries with a high peak in Google searches for the term coronavirus tend to reduce their COVID-19 infection rates. Does it make sense to associate digital information search with the containment of the pandemic? COVID-19 and the boom in digital content generation At this point, COVID-19 hardly needs any introduction. It has not just unleashed…

Why we need public models for public policy

Corona Time has brought the eery experience of becoming like a pawn on a chess board. Suddenly where we go, what we do, what we wear, who we meet and why are decided by somebody else. Here in Berlin, our youngest son now goes to school on Tuesday and Thursday mornings while his best friend goes on Mondays and Thursdays. As of this week. Maybe next week it will open up more. Maybe it won’t. Meanwhile our three other children, in different schools, are off until August.

The Potential and Hurdles of Fighting Atrocities in the Age of Social Media

Preserving online content documenting atrocities – in an atmosphere of censorship of social media, both by platforms themselves and governments – is a challenge. By Sharngan Aravindakshan and Radhika Kapoor This post originally appeared on TheWire.in on April 27, 2020 Grisly video footage showing police personnel wearing riot gear, coercing five bruised, bloodied men to sing the […]

La movilidad de los chilenos en marzo disminuyó en un 25 por ciento

El Mapa de Movilidad de Personas permite monitorear los niveles de movilidad de las personas presentando medianas de los kilómetros recorridos por día a nivel de regiones, provincias o estados de América Latina y el Caribe, a partir de datos georreferenciados y anonimizados de celulares, comparándolos con una semana de referencia pre-coronavirus.Las medidas de aislamiento social que se han implementado en el mundo debido al nuevo coronavirus han traído consecuencias para la movilidad de las personas.

Realizan videos con recomendaciones de actividad física adaptada

Un equipo del Departamento de Kinesiología de la Facultad de Medicina está a cargo de estos materiales, desarrollados en conjunto a organizaciones sociales y profesionales del área.

Rector Vivaldi presentó Plan de Salud Mental de Mesa Social COVID-19

El rector de la Casa de Bello dio a conocer junto al ministro del Interior, Gonzalo Blumel, el anuncio que busca implementarse con criterios de intersectorialidad y territorialidad.Hasta el palacio de La Moneda llegó el rector de la Universidad de Chile, Ennio Vivaldi, para participar de una nueva reunión de la Mesa Social COVID-19, integrada por autoridades de gobierno, universitarias, alcaldes y el Colegio Médico.