Internet Rules! Media Change & Innovation @ AoIR 2016

It is hard to count how many times we have been saying that the current European copyright regime is outdated. Sometimes the focus is on the negatives: what it should not be like. The ongoing copyright reform reinforces that tendency with proposals such as the content filter.

Open Knowledge Belgium in collaboration with Wikimedia Belgium has launched Civic Lab Brussels – a biweekly action-oriented gathering of open enthusiasts with different backgrounds and skills who work together on civic projects.
This post was first published on Open Knowledge Belgium’s website.

Courtney Kennedy at Pew Research Center: “… we are often asked about how we conduct our research. We work hard to make our methodologies transparent and understandable, but we also know that survey mode effects and data weighting aren’t on everyone’s short list of water-cooler conversation topics.

Al Baker in the New York Times: “It was a policing invention with a futuristic sounding name — CompStat — when the New York Police Department introduced it as a management system for fighting cri

Contact: cmpf@eui.eu
Title: Media Pluralism at risk in Europe
 
The Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) has released the 2016 edition of the Media Pluralism Monitor, one the principal measures of the risks to media pluralism in Europe. The Monitor has examined 30 European countries in 2016 and the results show that none of these countries is free from risks.

 CPRsouth 2017: Connecting the next billion
                                                                         
                                                                         Yangon, Myanmar
30th August- 1st September
 CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS
 Extended deadline for submissions: 08 March 2017
Paper proposal on policy relevant research on ICTs from the Asia Pacific and Africa may be submitted for review.
 

CPRsouth 2017: Connecting the next billion

Yangon, Myanmar
30th August- 1st September
 CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS
 Extended deadline for submissions: 08 March 2017
Paper proposal on policy relevant research on ICTs from the Asia Pacific and Africa may be submitted for review.

Submission guidelines may be found at this link.

Even though the market continues to develop innovative broadband, competition in the market has remained dull. Competitors do not aggressively seek to increase their market shares and revenue, hence, first-mover Mascom, continues to dominate the market. Between 2014 and 2016, Mascom owned close to 55% of the market, while Orange owned around 28% and beMOBILE 17% on average. 

Iniciativa visa analisar aspectos regulatórios dos BRICSA Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro (Direito Rio) acaba de criar o Núcleo de Estudos China-Brasil, que tem como objetivo lançar um olhar sobre os aspectos regulatórios no Brasil, seus avanços e os desafios que impõem às empresas chinesas. Na via contrária, o Centro também se debruçará sobre os traços do Direito Regulatório dos BRICS (Brasil, Rússia, Índia, China e África do Sul), com ênfase na evolução do Estado de Direito na China.

The current rapid social and technological change is giving rise to enormous uncertainties – and a great need for explanations and sense-making. How do we understand the digital society? When... MORE

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La iniciativa del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la U. de Chile (MAC) propone extender a Arica, Antofagasta y Coquimbo la plataforma virtual e interactiva de intercambio entre educadores del museo, docentes de artes visuales y estudiantes. El programa fue beneficiado con un Fondo Concursable Fomento al Arte en la Educación (FAE) 2017.

"El amanecer de la telemedicina -que permite a los médicos controlar a los pacientes desde lejos- es prometedor, sobre todo para aquellos que viven en zonas remotas. Muy útil para un país largo y angosto como Chile", señalan en la siguiente columna publicada este 2 de mayo en El Mercurio, el Prorrector de nuestro plantel, Rafael Epstein, el director del MIT Sloan Latin America Office (MSLAO), Lee Ullmann, y el miembro del Consejo Asesor del (MSLAO), Marcelo Larraguibel.

Seminario organizado por la Universidad de Chile congregó a especialistas para abordar la experiencia israelí en el manejo y uso eficiente del agua. El esfuerzo público y privado en investigación, riego eficiente, reutilización y desalinización fueron algunos de los temas centrales de la actividad.

Más de un centenar de estudiantes extranjeros asistieron a la bienvenida que la Casa de Bello brindó a estos nuevos alumnos internacionales. El evento contó con la participación de diversas autoridades y académicos, quienes además presentaron el universo de opciones que la Universidad ofrece en ámbitos como investigación, formación, movilidad y bienestar.

El académico e investigador de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades de la Universidad de Chile, fue escogido para incorporarse a dicho organismo en base a sus aportes en materias relacionadas con las ciencias y las artes del idioma.

Paper by Matheus Araujo et al at ArXiv: “Every day, millions of users reveal their interests on Facebook, which are then monetized via targeted advertisement marketing campaigns. In this paper, we explore the use of demographically rich Facebook Ads audience estimates for tracking non-communicable diseases around the world.

Featured innovations for the second STI Forum: “…The theme of the 2017 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) is “Eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world“, and the Member States have decided that the HLPF 2017 shall focus on six SDGs (1, 2, 3, 5, 9 and 14) in addition to SDG 17 that will be considered at each HLPF.