October 9-11, 2018 will remain etched in the memories of the more than 250 girls and women in technology who converged in Accra, Ghana to participate in the second Africa Summit on Girls and Women in Technology. I was privileged to participate in this summit as well – together with seven other women in technology from my community in Ghana.
Highlights
Robert Raymond: In this second episode of our new radio documentary series The Response, we shine a spotlight on Puerto Rico. When Hurricane Maria slammed into the island about a year ago, it resulted in thousands of deaths and knocked out power for almost an entire year. The result was what many consider to be the worst disaster in the United States.
Over the years I’ve come across a few proposals that any person or entity should able to issue their own currency, and I’ve always struggled about what that would mean and how it would work. This is relevant for recursive currency systems like the Credit Commons in which theoretically any member could create a currency as part of a larger monetary ecosystem. Recently I’ve been thinking these through and I think the benefits are outweighed by the drawbacks.
Pranesh Prakash was a panelist and moderator in a panel discussion on Equitable Access to Knowledge on October 23, 2018 at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. The event was hosted by DST Centre for Policy Research (IISc), Bangalore.
El Centro Avanzado de Enfermedades Crónicas (ACCDiS) ha sido aprobado por el Consejo Superior de Ciencias de FONDECYT basado en la recomendación proporcionada por Panel Evaluador
Internacional, para continuar la labor de investigación y formación de recursos humanos avanzados especializados en la prevención y tratamiento de enfermedades cardiovasculares y cáncer.
"Arte y cuerpo seropositivo en el Chile contemporáneo" es la muestra que entre el 19 de octubre y el 16 de noviembre estará abierta al público en el Museo de Química y Farmacia, exposición que espera vincular a la comunidad con las experiencias y perspectivas de quienes viven con el Virus de Inmunodeficiencia Humana (VIH) y con el Síndrome de Inmunodeficiencia Adquirida (Sida).
La iniciativa, que tiene como objetivo identificar y priorizar las respuestas para 16 grupos sociales identificados como vulnerables, reúne a representantes del sector privado, la sociedad civil, la academia y del gobierno para entregar propuestas de políticas públicas que puedan impactar directamente a estos grupos, y de esta forma avanzar en la erradicación de la pobreza.
Las invasiones biológicas son una de las principales amenazas a la biodiversidad, pero también son un problema económico y cultural.
Declaration: “…The 40th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners considers that any creation, development and use of artificial intelligence systems shall fully respect human rights, particularly the rights to the protection of personal data and to privacy, as well as human dignity, non-discrimination and fundamental values, and shall provide solutions to allow individuals to maintain control and understanding of artificial intelligence systems.
O futuro da China no governo de Xi Jinping10h00O Evento: O Núcleo de Estudos Brasil-China da FGV Direito Rio e o Consulado Geral da China no Rio de Janeiro convidam para palestra do Prof. Xie Chuntao sobre "O futuro da China no governo de Xi Jinping". O evento tem por objetivo discutir os impactos das políticas governamentais chinesas sobre a economia e o aprofundamentao da reforma das instituições da China, bem como sobre a sua inserção no mundo e, em especial, na América Latina.
Programação
10h - Abertura:
Douglas Yeung at Scientific American: “The conversation about unconscious bias in artificial intelligence often focuses on algorithms that unintentionally cause disproportionate harm to entire swaths of society—those that wrongly predict black defendants will commit future crimes, for example, or facial-recognition technologies developed mainly by using photos of white men that do a poor job of identifying women and people with darker skin.
Builders, creators, inventors, and tinkerers – we can start to connect half the world. Meet us at Mozfest.
Around 3.5 billion people do not have Internet access, many of them living in remote locations. How can they share the benefits of this amazing resource?
Tackling the digital divide is not easy, but everyone can help. Community networks are a great way to get involved.
Paper by Carla Hamida and Amanda Landi: “Recently, Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg was on trial for the misuse of personal data. In 2013, the National Security Agency was exposed by Edward Snowden for invading the privacy of inhabitants of the United States by examining personal data. We see in the news examples, like the two just described, of government agencies and private companies being less than truthful about their use of our data.
Dan Kopf at Quartz: “The poetically named “random forest” is one of data science’s most-loved prediction algorithms. Developed primarily by statistician Leo Breiman in the 1990s, the random forest is cherished for its simplicity. Though it is not always the most accurate prediction method for a given problem, it holds a special place in machine learning because even those new to data science can implement and understand this powerful algorithm.
Honigbienen bilden Gesellschaften, in denen tausende von Bienen als eine Einheit funktionieren. Arbeiter in Bienen-Gesellschaften engagieren sich in verschiedenen Aufgaben, kooperieren und kommunizieren bei der Ausübung ihrer Arbeit, genau wie Menschen in menschlichen Gesellschaften. Durch ihre gemeinsame Anstrengung entstehen neue Verhaltenseigenschaften, die die Fähigkeiten einzelner Arbeiterbienen weit übersteigen. Sie verteidigen kollektiv ihre Kolonien und nutzen effizient Nahrungsquellen durch ausgeklügelte Kommunikationssysteme, wie z.B. ihre "Tanzsprache".
Blog by Federico Ast at Thomson Reuters: “Human communities of every era have had to solve the problem of social order. For this, they developed governance and legal systems. They did it with the technologies and systems of belief of their time….
Reposted from the , the programme features interview with our colleague and Platform Cooperativism co-originator Nathan Schneider, as well as political scientist and author Virginia Eubanks