Katie Fletcher, Tesfay Woldemariam and Fred Stolle at EcoWatch: “No single person could ever hope to count the world’s trees. But a crowd of them just counted the world’s drylands forests—and, in the process, charted forests never before mapped, cumulatively adding up to an area equivalent in size to the Amazon rainforest.
Mais um texto da nossa série de convidados externos, desta vez escrito pelo Grupo de Pesquisa em Direito e Tecnologia da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco com a colaboração dos pesquisadores André Lucas Fernandes, André Ramiro, Paula Côrte Real e Raquel Saraiva.
Meet India’s typography community, as they adapt regional language scripts for the digital age and take their passion mainstream.
Innovative Action-Research Center Expands Communications Team to Amplify Its Work in Open Data and Open Governance
De acuerdo a la medición, que se aplica desde 1956 y tiene representatividad a nivel de toda la Región, el desempleo aumentó 0,4 puntos porcentuales en junio -en comparación al mismo mes de 2016-, alcanzando el 8,0 por ciento. En tanto, el grupo de jóvenes hasta 24 años fue el que sostuvo una mayor alza en la tasa de desocupación. Según el sondeo hay 2.924.000 personas ocupadas en el Gran Santiago, cifra inferior al promedio de los últimos doce meses.
"Llevamos 15 años con un límite de velocidad urbano de 60 km/h. Es el momento de que el Congreso revierta el error del cambio de ley introducido el año 2002, un error que cobró y sigue cobrando vidas", dice en la siguiente columna de opinión Alejandro Tirachini, académico del Departamento Ingeniería Civil de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de nuestro plantel, refiriéndose al cambio legislativo que reducirá la máxima velocidad en zonas urbanas.
As latino communities face increased pressure and risks from US immigrations and customs, how are latinos of faith organizing to protect the vulnerable while also including white Christians in migrant-led efforts for change?
Nishan Degnarain and Steve Adler at WEF: “We have collected more data on our oceans in the past two years than in the history of the planet.
Joshua Howgego at New Scientist: “Kwandengezi is a beguiling neighbourhood on the outskirts of Durban. Its ramshackle dwellings are spread over rolling green hills, with dirt roads winding in between. Nothing much to put it on the map. Until last year, that is, when weird signs started sprouting, nailed to doors, stapled to fences or staked in front of houses.
Courtney Kennedy and George Elliott Morris at Pew Research: “People polled by telephone are slightly less likely than those interviewed online to say their personal finances are in “poor shape” (14% versus 20%, respectively), a Pew Research Center
I attended my first IGF event ever – the Asia Pacific regional IGF (APrIGF) in Bangkok – and here’s what happened…
White Paper Series at the WebFoundation: “To achieve our vision of digital equality, we need to understand how new technologies are shaping society; where they present opportunities to make people’s lives better, and indeed where they threaten to create harm.
El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la U. de Chile inauguró la muestra ¿Qué Educación para Marte?, del artista italiano Valerio Rocco Orlando. La iniciativa genera una narrativa audiovisual con diversas visiones en torno a los sistemas de educación del mundo y como parte de la muestra, el artista generará instancias de discusión con estudiantes, profesores y el público general, continuando con su trabajo iniciado en 2011.
La promulgación el 28 de julio de 1967 de la ley 16.640 profundizó la Reforma Agraria en nuestro país, permitiendo la expropiación de millones de hectáreas en los años siguientes y la transformación radical del campo chileno al eliminar el latifundio y el inquilinaje. En el aniversario número 50 del inicio de este proceso, la Casa de Bello le dedicará la nueva edición de la Revista Anales a esta temática, y realizará un seminario abierto y un ciclo de cine, cruzando la reflexión académica con la memoria histórica de las organizaciones campesinas.
Pranesh Prakash was a speaker at the OHD on Consultation Paper on Net Neutrality organized by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on July 25, 2017 in Bengaluru.
Click to see the consultation paper. Pranesh's comments at the event followed the lines of the submission made earlier. The submissions can be accessed on this page.
Pranesh Prakash was a speaker at the Workshop on Public Open Wi-Fi Pilot organized by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on July 25, 2017.
Video of the lecture is available here.
Cryptography Fellow Riana Pfefferkorn gave a lecture titled "The American debate on surveillance and encryption". May 30, 2017São Paulo
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Author(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: August 3, 2017Publication Type: Other WritingSteve Ballmer is the former CEO of Microsoft and the current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. He is also the creator of USAFacts, a website dedicated to organizing and presenting data that allows U.S. citizens to understand the population, finances and government policy of the United States.
A FGV sem dúvidas me proporcionou uma formação jurídica inovadora e de excelência. Por um lado, me deu a oportunidade de conviver com um corpo docente de muita qualidade. Tive aula com professores muito dedicados, competentes e generosos. Por outro lado, a FGV me ensinou a refletir, a criticar e a argumentar. Foi capaz de me mostrar, desse modo, a importância de se ter uma postura ativa e questionadora.
