La actividad, impulsada con el apoyo del Programa de Biotecnología para América Latina de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas, congregó durante una semana a más de 40 investigadores y estudiantes de postgrado de México, Brasil, Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba y Chile.
Nirmita Narasimhan been selected for the 18th NCPEDP - Mindtree Helen Keller Awards 2017. The Award will be given away on Saturday, 2 December 2017 at the India International Centre (IIC) in New Delhi.
NCPEDP-Mindtree Helen Keller Award
A Lei de Acesso à Informação (LAI), promulgada em 2011 (N°12.527), e o Decreto que institui a Política de Participação Social e o Sistema Nacional de Participação Social de 2014 (N°8.243) colocaram a ouvidoria pública em maior evidência dentro do campo político brasileiro.
Mohammad Seidisarouei arbeitet seit September 2017 am Institut für Vergleichende Psychologie der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (HHU) und will dort promovieren. Gleichzeitig arbeitet der aus dem Iran stammende und dort ausgebildete Psychologe therapeutisch mit traumatisierten Geflüchteten vor allem aus Afghanistan.
Amy Maxmen in Nature: “…Whenever war, hurricanes or other disasters ravage part of the globe, one of the biggest problems for aid organizations is a lack of reliable data. People die because front-line responders don’t have the information they need to act efficiently.
Steve Crawshaw at LSE Impact Blog: “…If it is possible for peaceful crowds to force the collapse of the Berlin Wall or to unseat a Mubarak, how easy it should it be for protesters to persuade a democratically elected leader to retreat from “mere” bad policy? In truth, not easy at all. Two million marched in the UK against the Iraq War in 2003 – and it made not a blind bit of difference with Tony Blair’s determination to proceed with a war that the UN Secretary-General described as illegal.
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 Aadhaar […]
Eliza Mik at Law, Innovation and Technology: “If one is to believe the popular press and many “technical writings,” blockchains create not only a perfect transactional environment but also obviate the need for banks, lawyers and courts. The latter will soon be replaced by smart contracts: unbiased and infallible computer programs that form, perform and enforce agreements.
To support Nepal’s growing open data movement and increase its network of data-savvy practitioners, Open Knowledge Nepal has announced the Open Data Awareness Program, which aims to sensitize more than 300+ students and youth from seven districts.
Despite running an institute focused on politics & technology, I don’t actually spend much time thinking about politics or technology. Instead, I spend most of my time thinking about how to optimise the way that information travels through networks of people. Tackling this task, I think, is what it really means to attempt education at scale. (It’s perhaps just coincidence that this activity is also both political and technological!)
La directora artística de la compañía británica Icon Theatre, ofreció una charla magistral con la que se iniciaron las actividades del Foro de las Artes 2017. En ella compartió la experiencia del trabajo que realiza junto a un equipo interdisciplinario incorporando en la creación teatral a personas con problemas mentales, migrantes y ex presidiarios, entre otros, proponiendo este quehacer como gestor de reflexiones en torno a la sociedad actual.
Chambers & Partners realiza hace años la tarea de medir a los mejores bufetes y abogados en diferentes áreas de la práctica de las leyes, y la Casa de Bello destacó este año al tener a medio centenar titulados de la Facultad de Derecho en la primera línea de la práctica en esta disciplina a nivel nacional. Además, una veintena son académicos de la U.
Un informe de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), y la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS), reveló recientemente que el 32,8 por ciento de las mujeres chilenas adultas son obesas. El alto consumo de pan y comida chatarra, la poca actividad física y la ingesta alimentaria como un calmante emocional, explicarían en parte esta elevada cifra, según la nutrióloga del Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile.
Paper by Wiebke Loosen, Julius Reimer and Fenja De Silva-Schmidt: “Data-driven journalism can be considered as journalism’s response to the datafication of society.
Summary from an independent review, carried out by Professor Dame Wendy Hall and Jérôme Pesenti: “Increased use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can bring major social and economic benefits to the UK. With AI, computers can analyse and learn from information at higher accuracy and speed than humans can. AI offers massive gains in efficiency and performance to most or all industry sectors, from drug discovery to logistics.
About Colony: “We believe that the most successful organizations of the future will be open.
Openness is not about open plan offices or ‘20% time’. It’s about how decisions get made, how labor is divided, and who controls the purse strings.
I’m reposting the piece below to celebrate the 9oth birthday (on 7 October) of john chris jones. For jones, writing and living are still intertwined in a sublime but grounded way.
I’ve been re-reading “the internet and everyone” by john chris jones.
I’ve been astonished once again by the sensibility of an artist-writer-designer whose philosophy – indeed his whole life – first inspired me when I was a young magazine editor more than 30 years ago.