Emerging Technology from the arXiv: “…Substance abuse is a serious concern. Around one in 10 Americans are sufferers. Which is why it costs the American economy more than $700 billion a year in lost productivity, crime, and health-care costs. So a better way to identify people suffering from the disorder, and those at risk of succumbing to it, would be hugely useful.
Farhad Manjoo. at the New York Times: “…the biggest problem with Twitter’s place in the news is its role in the production and dissemination of propaganda and misinformation.
Paper by Benjamin Wittes and Jonathan Rauch: “For several generations, political reform and rhetoric have been entirely one-directional: always more direct democracy, never less. The general belief holds that more public involvement will produce more representative and thus more effective and legitimate governance.
Winny de Jong: “At the intersection of data and journalism, lots can go wrong. Merely taking precautions might not be enough….
Half True Is False
But this approach is not totally foolproof.
“Tool Without a Handle: Mutual Transparency in Social Media”
“I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment
I could be you”
Bob Dylan – “Positively 4th Street”
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La Universidad celebra el acto de investidura de 140 doctores, procedentes de 23 países
El rector subraya la dimensión ética y cooperativa de toda investigación universitaria
02/06/17 18:00
Marta Vidán
For most municipalities, participatory budgeting is a relatively new approach to include their citizens directly in the decision making for new investments and developments in their community. Fundación Civio is a civic tech organisation based in Madrid, Spain that develops tools for citizens that both reveal the civic value of data and promote transparency.
re:publica is more than just a conference – it’s a festival for the digital society. Since its foundation in 2007, re:publica brings together media folk, activists, hackers, scientists, NGOs and entrepreneurs from all over the... MORE
This blog post is part of our on-going Network series featuring updates from chapters across the Open Knowledge Network and was written by the Open Knowledge Belgium team.
El académico del Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen, Ignacio Agüero, se refiere en esta columna de opinión a las potencialidades que tiene el cine en la educación de los niños y jóvenes, todo esto, a partir de la experiencia del proyecto "Cero en Conducta" vivida en la escuela Pedro Quintana Mansilla, en Coyhaique, en el marco de la Semana de la Educación Artística.El cine es, por sí mismo, un fenómeno con enorme capacidad formativa para los jóvenes. Tanto al momento de ver películas como al de hacerlas.
Desde esta semana están disponibles para la comunidad universitaria y público general, las inscripciones para las nuevas versiones de los cursos gratuitos, abiertos y en línea, "Herramientas ciudadanas para una nueva Constitución Política" y "Vulnerabilidades ante desastres socionaturales", de la iniciativa UAbierta. “Vulnerabilidades ante desastres socionaturales” es uno de los dos cursos que dictará UAbierta. El programa busca incentivar la comprensión de los desastres naturales como ciclos dinámicos y complejos.
Mover la ciencia de los laboratorios convencionales, liberarla de los grupos de elite y los costos exorbitantes, son algunos de los lineamientos que postulan los seguidores de Biohacking, movimiento que desde 2005 se expande en el mundo, imponiendo el "hágalo usted mismo" y desafiando el status quo del mundo científico y la academia. En este contexto, un grupo de estudiantes de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM), tomó la posta y promete abrir nuevos espacios a la ciencia, esta vez, en las calles.
O projeto Supremo em Números produz relatórios temáticos detalhados, uma vez por ano, mostrando diferentes facetas da atuação do Supremo Tribunal Federal sob o ponto de vista estatístico. Baixe aqui o V Relatório do Supremo em Números O Foro Privilegiado e o Supremo.
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A Community Convening at Harvard Law School to advance the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative
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Reflecting and engaging on the societal challenges of AI and related technologies
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Luca Belli falou sobre cibereconomia e cibersegurançaO pesquisador do Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade (CTS) da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro (Direito Rio), Luca Belli, participou BRICS Think Tank Symposium, realizado em Chongqing, na China. O especialista falou em sua apresentação sobre cibereconomia e cibersegurança.
Eduardo Magrani é pesquisador do CTSO professor da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da FGV (Direito Rio), Eduardo Magrani, foi escolhido recentemente como um dos quatro pesquisadores do mundo a integrar o Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade da Universidade Alexander Von Humboldt (Alemanha), para trabalhar diretamente com o time de Inteligência Artificial e Internet das Coisas, na qualidade de Senior Fellow.