Medium essay byPaul Currion: “From Article 6 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights (“Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law” ) to Sustainabl

This is a follow up on our earlier article on finding techniques for ‘reverse dominance’, i.e. avoiding the concentration of power.

How do youth allies promote young people’s critical thinking on privacy, in informal learning contexts in the Americas? This blog post is part of a series showcasing the work of different organizations at the intersection of youth development, digital rights, and online safety. Quick facts Who: Patricio Velasco from Derechos Digitales What: Litigation, campaigning, research Mission/vision: To defend, promote and develop human rights online, through advocacy in public policy and private practices, for a more […]

Two months ago, I read something that made me furious. A chocolate company had gradually reduced the size of my favorite chocolate bar by 30%. The greedy chocolate company – no, they were “Big Chocolate” now – were cutting corners in an attempt to trick everyday people like me. I vowed I would boycott them.
A week later I found myself in the checkout lane at the grocery store, eyeing my favorite chocolate bar. Five minutes later, I was eating it. I didn’t even have the decency to feel guilty.

Nestled in Galicia’s fertile hills, the commons community of Froxán is engaged in a struggle to protect its territory and history from Spanish miner Sacyr’s plans to re-open the San Finx tungsten mine. The defining feature of Froxán’s resistance has been the community’s decision to counter the advances of mining by working positively for land, culture and the commons with new vigour.

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United States

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United States

See map: Google Maps

Paper by Jane R. Bambauer and Tal Zarsky: “Most of the discourse on algorithmic decision-making, whether it comes in the form of praise or warning, assumes that algorithms apply to a static world. But automated decision-making is a dynamic process.

Research Report by Megan Randall, Tracy Gordon, Solomon Greene and Erin Huffer: “To respond effectively to state and federal policy changes, city leaders, non-profit service providers, advocates, and researchers all need accurate data on how federal funds f

Paper by Henry Chang: “Some of the appealing characteristics of distributed ledger technology (DLT), which blockchain is a type of, include guaranteed integrity, disintermediation and distributed resilience. These characteristics give rise to the possible consequences of immutability, unclear ownership, universal accessibility and trans-border storage.

O que é importante considerar sobre as notícias falsas? Como combatê-las? Neste Bytes de Informação, Luíza Brandão e Paloma Rocillo falam sobre as Fake News, que estão no centro de discussões da atualidade. Confira:

Ante las recientes respuestas xenófobas contra la población migrante, suscitadas por la circulación de un video en internet, la académica del Departamento de Sociología de la U. de Chile explica cómo las expresiones del racismo que hoy se despliegan de manera cotidiana, son correlato de los planteamientos del surgimiento del Estado-nación chileno, que hoy se manifiestan a partir de prejuicios y desconfianzas hacia los migrantes, particularmente los de origen latinoamericano.

Este 1 de marzo, la Universidad de Chile comenzó oficialmente las actividades del primer semestre de este año, luego del período de receso universitario de febrero. Las fechas importantes del calendario académico, que comienzan con el período de matrícula para los estudiantes antiguos, la recepción de quienes ingresan por primera vez a nuestro plantel, la Semana Mechona y los Juegos Olímpicos Estudiantiles, se pueden revisar en la siguiente nota.

La Casa de Bello dará inicio al proceso de entrega masiva a los más de 6.500 alumnos nuevos, quienes recibirán este documento en los diferentes campus. "La identificación del alumno y la acreditación de que forman parte de la comunidad Universidad de Chile". Esta es la principal función de la Tarjeta Universitaria Inteligente (TUI), según comentó Carolina Meza, administradora de la Oficina a cargo de dicho insumo, el que comenzará a distribuirse a los alumnos nuevos este martes 6 de marzo. Pero no sólo eso.

El Consejo Universitario de nuestra Casa de Estudios aprobó en enero la constitución del Centro de Estudios y Desarrollo de Educación Continua para el Magisterio. Esta nueva instancia se nutre de la experiencia del Programa de Educación para el Magisterio (PEC), que nació en 1999 con el propósito de fortalecer el desarrollo profesional docente en el país y apoyar el proceso de reforma educativa de aquellos años.

On Wednesday, Senator Scott Wiener introduced the text of California Senate Bill 822, which would adopt net neutrality protections for California.
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Suzanne J. Piotrowski, Alex Ingrams and Daniel Berliner in The Conversation: “For democracy to work, citizens need to know what their government is doing.

In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]

The “våningshus” of the small farm Holmstadengen by Skreia.
Norwegian Layman’s Christianity peaked in this house. The man who lived here for almost 40 years, Magnus Johansen Dahl from Spydeberg, was the son of a “husmann”, which in some aspects was worse than serfdom. Serfs were many places well protected by traditions. In spite of his background, Dahl became the apostel of the Totenåsen Hills.

Mit zwei Informationsveranstaltungen gibt die Psychologische Beratung für Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter der HHU Hilfestellungen und Anregungen, wie gesundheitsförderliche Prozesse am Arbeitsplatz und im Privatleben gestaltet und umgesetzt werden können. Weitere Themen sind der Umgang mit Stressfaktoren und Wege, um die Gesundheit, Widerstandskraft und Begeisterung zu bewahren und fördern.
Informationsveranstaltung zu gesundheitsförderlichem Verhalten für Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter der HHU