De acuerdo a la última Encuesta de Ocupación y Desocupación del Centro de Microdatos de la Universidad de Chile, la tasa de desempleo en el Gran Santiago experimentó una caída que hoy lo sitúa en un 7,2 por ciento, mismo nivel observado hace exactamente doce meses. Un importante descenso en la cesantía juvenil y un aumento histórico del empleo, destacaron entre los resultados del sondeo.
Más de 40 investigadores participaron en el Primer Congreso Internacional sobre este tema realizado nuestro país.
Joon Ian Wong at Quartz: “The United Nations agency in charge of food aid—often billed as the largest aid organization in the world—is betting that an ethereum-based blockchain technology could be the key to delivering aid efficiently to refugees while slashing the costs of doing so.
Mark Leonard at Project Syndicate: “Over the last few weeks, media around the world have been saturated with stories about how technology is destroying politics. In autocracies like China, the fear is of ultra-empowered Big Brother states, like that in George Orwell’s 1984.
Eyerusalem Siba and Mariama Sow at Brookings: “…African countries are presently in the early stages of their urbanization process.
Open access debates are increasingly focused on “how” rather than “why”. Tony Ross-Hellauer and Benedikt Fecher present two possible scenarios for an open access future, consider the relative merits and... MORE
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A Nigéria abriga 149,5 milhões de assinantes de Internet, dos quais 92 milhões são usuários ativos. Os provedores de conexão são a MTN com 58.121.427 assinantes, Glo com 37.270.100 assinantes, Airtel com 34.333.802 assinantes e 9mobile com 19.621.806 assinantes. Isso faz da Nigéria uma das maiores populações de usuários da internet na África Subsaariana. A Alliance for Affordable Internet classificou a Nigéria como o 12º ambiente com Internet mais acessível entre 51 países em desenvolvimento e emergentes, avaliados em 2015.
The Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP) at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society is hiring a part-time research assistant!
Rektorin Prof. Dr. Anja Steinbeck betonte in ihrer Begrüßung die Bedeutung der Zusammenarbeit zwischen den HHU-Fakultäten. „Ein Abend wie dieser gibt Ihnen die Möglichkeit, sich kennen zu lernen und Ansätze für gemeinsame Forschungsthemen zu finden“, sagte sie an die neue HHU-Professorinnen und -Professoren gewandt. Die anwesenden Forscher umrissen ihre jeweiligen Arbeitsschwerpunkte. Im anschließenden Austausch kristallisierten sich bereits erste fakultätsübergreifende Schnittstellen heraus.
Paper by Wolfgang Kerber and Jonas Severin Frank: “The Internet of Things raises a number of so far unsolved legal and regulatory questions. Particularly important are the issues of privacy, data ownership, and data access.
Hauptfokus von Sibleys Forschung ist der weltweit verbreitete Parasit Toxoplasma gondii und dessen Zusammenhang mit HIV und anderen immunsupprimierenden Erkrankungen.
The Catalan Integral Cooperative (CIC) has been a great source of inspiration for a new generation of cooperative projects around the world, which want to build an autonomous (from the state and capitalist market) economy by adapting the ‘CIC model’ to their local needs.
„Bei vielen Patienten ist das Verfahren noch immer relativ unbekannt. Dabei ist es bereits seit den 1980er Jahren ein etabliertes Verfahren zur Behandlung schwerer chronischer Schmerzen. Wichtig ist: Bei der Neuromodulation bleiben die die Nerven erhalten. Wir können die Nerven mit elektrischen Impulsen, aber auch mit speziellen Medikamente behandeln“, so der UKD-Mediziner.
Making Crypto Safe for the Mainstream
I’ve been thinking a lot about how to make ICOs really solid, ethical, lasting sources of good. However, at the heart of an ICO is the “C” — the cryptocurrency which is being offered. How can we really get to ethical ICOs when cryptocurrencies themselves aren’t ready to serve mainstream needs? [This is the first of three articles about getting to ethical ICOs.]
’Cause let’s tell the truth — cryptocurrencies just aren’t safe for everyday use by normal people and businesses yet.
Jason Hickel: Earlier this summer, a paper published in the journal Nature captured headlines with a rather bleak forecast. Our chances of keeping global warming below the 2C danger threshold are very, very small: only about 5%. The reason, according to the paper’s authors, is that the cuts we’re making to greenhouse gas emissions are being cancelled out by economic growth.
El Rector de la Universidad de Chile, Ennio Vivaldi, el vicerrector de Investigación y Desarrollo, Flavio Salazar; y la presidenta subrogante de la Academia de Ciencias, Cecilia Hidalgo, fueron parte de la delegación de académicos y científicos que concurrieron este viernes 20 de octubre al Palacio de La Moneda. La misiva entregada solicita al gobierno reconsiderar los recursos en ciencia, tecnología e investigación proyectados para el próximo año y avanzar en su progresivo incremento.
Una importante agenda de trabajo llevó a cabo en Buenos Aires, Argentina, la profesora Maribel Mora Curriao, directora de la Oficina de Equidad e Inclusión de la Vicerrectoría de Asuntos Estudiantiles y Comunitarios. La representante de la Casa de Bello participó junto a otros pares de la región, en actividades sobre diversidad cultural e interculturalidad en la Educación Superior con el propósito de compartir experiencias y prácticas que permitan abrir nuevos espacios a la inclusión universitaria.
This year’s Platform Cooperativism conference is titled “The People’s Disruption: Platform Co-ops for Global Challenges” and will take place at the New School in New York City on November 10th and 11th.
Ray Kurzweil keynote presentation at a Council on Foreign Relations meeting…(More)”.
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