Evento reúne especialistas de Brasil e Portugal em Direito e TecnologiBuscar caminhos para construir modelos regulatórios adequados para dar conta de demandas surgidas em função do avanço das novas tecnologias. Essa é uma das propostas do seminário “Tecnologias Disruptivas: desafios de direito e tecnologia no século XXI” que acontece nos dias 9 e 10 de novembro.
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featuring public health researcher and educator Caroline Weinberg, MD, MPH
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The March for Science went viral when it was nothing more than a name -- the very idea of a movement in defense of science in policy was enough to ignite the passion of more than one million people around the world. From January 24 to April 22, the movement lived on the internet, building on social media until it culminated in the largest science event in the history of the world.
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For the further development of its hybrid publication strategy – combining digital and print books and other media – the Institute of Network Cultures is looking for an
Intern with a strong interest in (digital) publishing
3-6 months, 4 days a week, starting February 2018
Andy Hagerman at Stanford Social Innovation Review: “Design thinking: It started as an academic theory in the 60’s, a notion of starting to look at broader types of challenges with the intention and creativity that designers use to tackle their work.
Paper by Mohammed Benali and Abdessamad Réda Ghomari: “Managing crises is considered as one of the most complicated organizational and managerial task. Indeed, dealing with such situations calls for many groups from different institutions and organizations to interact and collaborate their efforts in a timely manner to reduce their effects. However, response organizations are challenged by several problems.
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Book edited by Adegboyega Ojo and Jeremy Millard: “Historically, technological change has had significant effect on the locus of administrative activity, cost of carrying out administrative tasks, the skill sets needed by officials to effectively function, rules and regulations, and the types of interactions citizens have with their public authorities.
Intro by Jimmy Wales: “Welcome to WikiTribune, a pilot project for a new approach to journalism where the community is at the center. This is not a news service – yet. It’ll only be the news service I envisage when you play a full role.
When I wrote the very first words in Wikipedia back in January 2001, I chose “Hello, world!”
Bret Fraussen and Darren Halpin in Public Administration: “The ongoing embrace of interest groups as agents capable of addressing democratic deficits in governing institutions is in large part because they are assumed to contribute democratic legitimacy to policy processes. Nonetheless, they face the challenge of legitimating their policy advocacy in democratic terms, clarifying what makes them legitimate partners in governance.
In September, 2017, Scroll, in collaboration with the Centre for Communication Governance, published our data on biometric-based identification systems across the world, and their correlation with a country’s democratic record. Our data demonstrates a reciprocity between these factors: “While examining whether countries were instituting these Aadhaar-like systems, researchers from the Centre noticed a trend wherein […]
Open Knowledge International (OKI) has been awarded funds by the Open Data Institute (ODI) as part of a project to enhance and increase adoption of tools and services for open data publishers in the private and public sectors, reducing barriers to publication. OKI’s focus in this programme will be to create better open data publication workflows by building on our earlier work on the Frictionless Data initiative.
Blog by Ava Ex Machina: “…Within the tech industry in particular, we work every day to build systems that ingest more and more of our personal information that while it might be used to sell us products, can also increasingly be used to index and endanger our most vulnerable communities.
James Stodder and Bernard Lietaer: The Swiss WIR (“We” in German) is the longest surviving social or community currency, sometimes called a complementary currency. (This last name reflects an ambition to supplement rather than replace a national currency.) WIR is not a physical currency per se, but a system of credits and debits. Once a buyer and seller negotiate a price in WIR, the seller is credited and the buyer debited that amount. Nowadays, the process can be completed in seconds, on a smartphone.
Funding the Cooperative City explores how citizen initiatives, cooperatives, non-profit companies, community land trusts, crowdfunding platforms, ethical banks and anti-speculation foundations step out of the regular dynamisms of real estate development and arrange new mechanisms to access, purchase, renovate or construct buildings for communities.
La máxima autoridad de la Casa de Bello hizo una presentación ante la Comisión de Hacienda de la Cámara de Diputados, en el marco del trámite del proyecto de Ley sobre Universidades del Estado. En la instancia, el Rector Vivaldi valoró los cambios que ha tenido el documento original propuesto por el Ejecutivo, y planteó la posibilidad de corregir algunos de sus puntos, como otorgar tratamiento de organismo estatal en compras públicas a los planteles del CUECh, y derogar la Ley Nº 20.044 que limita el traspaso de dinero desde el fisco a estas instituciones.
Bajo el lema "Artes, políticas y contingencias", la tercera versión de este encuentro comenzó con un concierto en el Teatro Nacional Chileno, en el que músicos de la Universidad homenajearon a la artista nacional. En tanto, la parrilla de actividades del Foro de las Artes -que se extenderá hasta el sábado 21 de octubre- se inició con la charla de Nancy Hirst, directora artística de la compañía británica Icon Theatre en Casa Central.