Paper by J. Ojasalo and L. Tähtinen as part of the INTED2017 Proceedings: “The purpose of this paper is to increase knowledge of participation in collaborative innovation of cities with digital channels, as well as propose a model of digital participation system in an open innovation platform of a
Martí Cuquet, Guillermo Vega-Gorgojo, Hans Lammerant, Rachel Finn, Umair ul Hassan at ArXiv: “This paper presents the risks and opportunities of big data and the potential social benefits it can bri
Meg Miller at Co.Design: “If there’s one issue that this divided nation can agree upon, it’s a common hatred of the federal government’s dizzying, overly complicated tax forms. Show me one person who enjoys digging up last year’s return and embarking on a byzantine quest through tax credits, deductions, exemptions, and withholdings, all for a measly return, and I’ll show you a masochist.
Alexander Fink in AI & Society: “Social service organizations have long used data in their efforts to support people in need for the purposes of advocacy, tracking, and intervention. Increasingly, such organizations are joining forces to provide wrap-around services to clients in order to “move the needle” on intractable social problems. Groups using these strategies, called Collective Impact, develop shared metrics to guide their work, sharing data, finances, infrastructure, and services.
A Programmable City Working Paper by Sung-Yueh Perng, Rob Kitchin and Darach Mac Donncha: “Hackathons – quick prototyping events for commercial purposes – have become an important means to foster innovation, entrepreneurship and the start-up economy in smart cities. Smart and entrepreneurial cities have been critiqued with respect to the neoliberalization of governance and statecraft.
Josh Powell at Oxfam Blog: “While development actors are now creating more data than ever, examples of impactful use are anecdotal and scant. Put bluntly, despite this supply-side push for more data, we are far from realizing an evidence-based utopia filled with data-driven decisions.
(Open Access) Book by Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett, and Michael Woolcock: “…Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited impact, however; schools get built but children don’t learn, IT systems are introduced but not used, plans are written but not implemented.
Benjamin Y. Clark, Nicholas Zingale, Joseph Logan in the Journal of Public and NonProfit Affairs: “The hollowing of the state has added new challenges for administrators attending to the competing values of the administration. This article examines how the wisdom of the crowds can be used in a deliberative manner to extract new knowledge through crowdsourcing.
Fred Wilson at AVC: “Mankind has been inventing new ways to organize and govern since we showed up on planet earth. Our history is a gradual evolution of these organization and governance systems. Much of what we are using right now was invented in ancient Greece and perfected in western Europe in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
En el texto publicado en el Diario Financiero, el profesor del Departamento de Economía de la Universidad de Chile y director del Centro de Estudios para el Conflicto y la Cohesión Social (COES), Dante Contreras, explora la relación entre el hacinamiento y la pobreza, además de los nexos de la carencia de un hogar con espacio suficiente para los habitantes con los bajos resultados en indicadores internacionales de educación.
El proceso extraordinario de entrega de la Asignación Universitaria Complementaria Académica Incremental (AUCAI), permitió que más de mil quinientos académicos pudiesen ver reflejado en sus liquidaciones de marzo la asignación respectiva.1571 son los académicos de la U. de Chile que recibieron por primera vez en marzo, en sus respectivos salarios, la Asignación Universitaria Complementaria Académica Incremental (AUCAI), recursos que la U.
La reflexión sobre el concepto de universidad, su vigencia y los desafíos que deben enfrentar estas instituciones en el siglo XXI, son el tema del nuevo tomo de la Revista Anales de la Universidad de Chile, titulado "Pensar Universidad".
Una aleación de caucho con cobre es la clave de Pezanbac, la primera pezonera antibacteriana para vacas, elaborada por un equipo de cinco jóvenes profesionales entre los que se incluye Andrés Vargas Fernández, veterinario y magíster en Ciencias Animales y Veterinarias de nuestro plantel.
Em parceria com o Grupo de Estudos sobre Justiça e Direito Eletrônicos (GEDEL), o nosso diretor Professor Fabricio B. Pasquot Polido participou do evento no Tribunal Regional do Trabalho da 3ª Região, sobre democracia e direito no contexto do big data, da inteligência artificial e da linguagem maquinal. Aqui você confere a fala dele no evento.
The UCLA’s Garrick Institute held its first colloquium on Catastrophic And Existential Risk from March 27-29, with the opening keynote being delivered by CSER’s Executive Director Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, and a lecture being given by CSER’s Catherine Rhodes. Ó hÉigeartaigh gave an overview of recent global progress in the field of existential risk, and presented some of the challenges for traditional risk analysis posed by risks of global catastrophic magnitude.
The Famine Early Warning Systems Network: “…partnering with Tomnod to improve population information in five South Sudanese counties by using crowdsourcing to gather evidence-based food security analysis.
Through Tomnod, volunteers from around the world identify different elements such as buildings, tents, and livestock in satellite images that are hosted on Tomnod’s website. This approach creates data sets that can more accurately assess the level of food insecurity in South Sudan. …
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Arturo J. Carrillo is Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
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An exploration of issues related to digital incivility with an emphasis on cyber-violence. When digital turns incivil, how does the law respond?
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For 15 years there's been a heated battle over your right to privacy online -- from the Patriot Act to the Snowden revelations to the recent repeal of Internet privacy protections. What can we expect in the Trump Era? What's at stake? Who's at risk? And, most of all, what can you do to protect yourself and defend democracy in a digital world?May 9, 2017Oakland Library
Brian Forde at Harvard Business Review: “…Data is under attack. And it is the leaders of our government and economy who are waging this war.
Uma das tecnologias mais promissoras e potencialmente disruptivas desta década é a dos carros autônomos, ou carros auto-dirigíveis. Notícias a respeito de inovações, dilemas éticos ou mesmo dos primeiros acidentes envolvendo carros autônomos permeiam a mídia especializada. A Gartner Inc., empresa de consultoria em tecnologia da informação que desenvolve relatórios anuais sobre tendências e novas tecnologias, atualmente situa os carros autônomos na crista de seu gráfico de hype para inovações emergentes.