Report by The Law Library of Congress, Global Legal Research Center: “In recent years, parliaments around the world have enhanced their websites in order to improve access to legislative information and other parliamentary resources. Innovative features allow constituents and researchers to locate and utilize detailed information on laws and lawmaking in various ways. These include tracking tools and alerts, apps, the use of open data technology, and different search functions.

 Hyoungjoo Park and Dietmar Wolfram at the LSE Impact Blog: “Today’s researchers work in a heavily data-intensive and collaborative environment in order to further scientific discovery across and within fields. It is becoming routine for researchers (i.e.

Tras las primarias presidenciales realizadas el pasado domingo 2 de julio, el académico de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Octavio Avendaño, indica que éstas "evidenciaron la debilidad e imposibilidad que ha existido, dese 1989, en aquellas agrupaciones que han insistido en presentar una opción de izquierda alternativa a la Nueva Mayoría", potenciales debilidades a las que alude el sociólogo en esta columna de opinión donde también repasa qué ocurrió con Chile Vamos y el Frente Amplio.Las elecciones primarias del día domingo 2 de julio evidenciaron que el antipartidismo y

Dieciocho fueron las iniciativas que un centenar de estudiantes trabajaron durante el primer semestre en el marco del Taller de Ingeniería Industrial, abarcando áreas como educación, salud, reinserción, medio ambiente y deporte. Surgido en 1997, este curso introductorio busca situar a los futuros ingenieros en el mundo de hoy, entregando metodologías para el desarrollo de habilidades, y conocimientos sobre el campo de acción de su disciplina."Nuestra invitación es a que los alumnos salgan y vivan la sociedad. El módulo de proyectos sociales ha sido un éxito.

La directora del Departamento de Terapia Ocupacional y Ciencia de la Ocupación de la Facultad de Medicina, se refiere el desarrollo de esta disciplina en el mundo como un efectivo elemento potenciador del bienestar que hace dialogar el modelo biomédico y las humanidades.El día 17 de marzo de 1917, en un edificio de la ciudad de Nueva York, se reunía un grupo de personas de diversas áreas para discutir el valor terapéutico de la ocupación.

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New Report by Congressional Research Service: “Promoting democratic institutions, processes, and values has long been a U.S. foreign policy objective, though the priority given to this objective has been inconsistent.

Book by Trevor Garrison Smith: “The objective of this book is to outline how a radically democratic politics can be reinvigorated in theory and practice through the use of the internet. The author argues that politics in its proper sense can be distinguished from anti-politics by analyzing the configuration of public space, subjectivity, participation, and conflict.

Niklas Kossow, Roberto Martínez and Barranco Kukutschka in Crime, Law and Social Change:”Over the past years, an increasing number of studies have looked at the use of internet and communications technology (ICT) in the fight against corruption. While there is broad agreement that ICT tools can be effective in controlling corruption, the mechanisms by which they are doing this are much less clear. This paper attempts to shine some light on this relationship.

Andrei Sambra and Lalana Kagal for the 2017 ACM on Web Science Conference: “This extended abstract discusses how public services can become more open and engage citizens more actively, by providing the local, public administration with the right tools. It calls for public services to think more creatively about how they can collaborate with the public to make better use of the energy and enthusiasm, as well as missing skills that people have and want to offer.

Katie Tezapsidis at Uber Security: “Data analysis helps Uber continuously improve the user experience by preventing fraud, increasing efficiency, and providing important safety features for riders and drivers. Data gives our teams timely feedback about what we’re doing right and what needs improvement.

Catherine Cheney at DEVEX: “Next month, a first-of-its-kind event will take place in Denmark, and it will draw on traditions and ways of living in one of the happiest countries in the world to unlock new perspectives on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Hollie Russon-Gilman in PS: Political Science & Politics: “This article aims to contribute to a burgeoning field of ‘civic technology’ to identify precise pathways through which multi-stakeholder partnerships can foster, embed, and encourage more collaborative governance, outlining a research agenda to gui

OECD: “Government at a Glance 2017 provides the latest available data on public administrations in OECD countries. Where possible, it also reports data for Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Lithuania, the Russian Federation, and South Africa. This edition contains new indicators on public sector emploympent, institutions, budgeting practices and procedures, regulatory governance, risk management and communication, open government data and public sector innovation.

While online services emerge in all areas of life, the voting procedure in many democracies remains paper-based as the security of current online voting technology is highly disputed. We invite... MORE

El Rector Ennio Vivaldi, junto al vicerrector de Investigación y Desarrollo, Flavio Salazar, recibieron en la Casa Central al decano de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Patricio Aceituno, al presidente de CONICYT, Mario Hamuy, y al equipo de estudiantes e investigadores involucrados en el proyecto del satélite SUCHAI, que la semana pasada fuera puesto en órbita.