Asmus Leth Olsen at Public Management Review: “When faced with a problem, policymakers have a choice of action or inaction. Psychological research shows varying results on how individuals evaluate (in)actions conditional on the subsequent outcome.
Yesterday, a nine-judge bench continued to hear arguments on whether a fundamental right to privacy exists. Our posts discussing yesterday’s hearings can be found here. Today, the hearing concluded with arguments advanced on behalf of the states of Rajasthan and Haryana along with the Centre for Civil Society and the TRAI and with a rejoinder […]
At a time of open and big data, data-led and evidence-based policy making has great potential to improve problem solving but will have limited, if not harmful, effects if the underlying components are riddled with bad data.
Tras la dificultad para corroborar denuncias de abuso a niñas, niños y adolescentes, un equipo liderado por la directora del Dpto. de Cirugía Pediátrica de la Facultad de Medicina, Carmen Gloria Rostión, demostró la efectividad de un examen ya existente con estos fines.
El consumo de endulzantes en vez de azúcar, surgido en los años 20 para evitar las calorías asociadas a su ingesta, ha ido en alza durante los últimos años a medida que los peligros de la obesidad se han extendido entre la población. La académica del Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos, Sandra Hirsch, nos explica los riegos del creciente consumo de edulcorantes, ligados al aumento del apetito, de peso o posibles efectos anticonceptivos.
El presidente del Consejo Directivo del Programa Transversal de Educación (PTE) y decano de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Roberto Aceituno, señala en este texto, publicado hoy 20 de julio en la sección de cartas al director de El Mercurio, que esta propuesta, al igual que la llamada reforma del sistema de educación superior, no hace más que consagrar un "modelo" construido para servir intereses privados.El proyecto de Ley de universidades estatales, enviado por el gobierno a su discusión y tramitación parlamentaria, representa en varios de sus aspectos un grave retroces
En una asamblea realizada en Casa Central, los funcionarios no académicos de Servicios Centrales participaron de una presentación realizada por el vicepresidente del Senado Universitario, Juan Carlos Letelier, quien expuso sobre los principales puntos de esta iniciativa legal, para luego discutir sobre los pasos a seguir ante el desacuerdo de la comunidad de la Casa de Bello sobre aspectos planteados por este proyecto.Como un tema gravísimo y de alta importancia calificaron el dirigente Ricardo Chandía, presidente de la Asociación de Funcionarios de Servici
La edición de ADN sigue dando pasos adelante en el mundo científico. El hito más reciente en este campo ocurrió días atrás cuando un equipo de investigadores estadounidenses logró insertar un video animado en ADN vivo. Tras este avance, se materializa la idea de guardar grandes cantidades de información en pequeños organismos vivos por miles de años.
This is a guest post explaining the focus of the MyData conference in Tallinn and Helsinki later this month.
By a famous writing tip, you should always start texts with ‘why?’. Here we are taking that tip, and we actually find many ways to answer the big Why. So,
Why MyData 2017?
Did you get your data after MyData 2016 conference? No, you did not. There is lots of work to be done, and we need all the companies, governments, individuals and NGO’s on board on Aug 31-Sep 1 in Tallinn and Helsinki. When else would you meet the other over 800 friends at once?
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United States
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Journalists are supposed to serve as “watchdogs” on the government. But how do they get access to the information they need to do that? In this episode, we talk to BuzzFeed lawyer Nabiha Syed about “freedom of information” laws — which are often the secret to getting government secrets.
Review by Lawrence Phillips, Chase Dowling, Kyle Shaffer, Nathan Hodas and Svitlana Volkov: “Social media (SM) data provides a vast record of humanity’s everyday thoughts, feelings, and actions at a resolution previously unimaginable. Because user behavior on SM is a reflection of events in the real world, researchers have realized they can use SM in order to forecast, making predictions about the future.
Mujb Mashal the New York Times: “These are some of the terms Afghan men use to refer to their wives in public instead of their names, the sharing of which they see as a grave dishonor worthy of violence: Mother of Children, My Household, My Weak One or sometimes, in far corners, My Goat or My Chicken.
Women also may be called Milk-sharer or Black-headed. The go-to word for Afghans to call a woman in public, no matter her status, is Aunt.
“Data Africa is an open data platform designed to provide information on key themes for research and development such as: agriculture, climate, poverty and child health across Sub-Saharan Africa at the sub-national level. The main goal of the online tool is to present the themes to a wide, even non-technical audience through easily accessible visual narratives.
In its first stage, the platform is focused on national and sub-national level data for 13 countries:
Last week, a nine-judge bench continued to hear arguments on whether a fundamental right to privacy exists. Our posts discussing last week’s hearings can be found here and here. Today, arguments were advanced on behalf of the states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and also the UIDAI. Mr. Sundaram, appearing for the state of Maharashtra, […]
Paper by Rajan Vaish et al: “Research experiences today are limited to a privileged few at select universities. Providing open access to research experiences would enable global upward mobility and increased diversity in the scientific workforce. How can we coordinate a crowd of diverse volunteers on open-ended research? How could a PI have enough visibility into each person’s contributions to recommend them for further study?
Autorem artykułu jest Jan Strycharz.
Paper by Dani Gunawan and Amalia Amalia: “Nowadays, public demands easy access to nonconfidential government data, such as public digital information on health, industry, and culture that can be accessed on the Internet. This will lead departments within government to be efficient and more transparent.