La plataforma interactiva busca ser una herramienta al servicio de académicos, investigadores y planificadores de políticas públicas, buscando estimular la competitividad del país gracias a un acceso más sencillo y completo de los datos producidos por las instituciones públicas.
The Crowd & the Cloud (TV series): “Are you interested in birds, fish, the oceans or streams in your community? Are you concerned about fracking, air quality, extreme weather, asthma, Alzheimer’s disease, Zika or other epidemics? Now you can do more than read about these issues. You can be part of the solution.
How does the relation between humans and machines change in light of growing artificial intelligence and is human intelligence decreasing, because more and more humans are being programmed by their... MORE
Fcomunav ya está entre las 50 mejores facultades de Comunicación del mundo, según el ranking QS by subject
La Facultad de Comunicación de la Universidad se sitúa en el puesto 42 global, siendo además la quinta entre las de tamaño medio, y la novena entre las europeas
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08/03/17 09:25
Álvaro Pérez
The is a liveblog of the “The Civic State of the Union” panel on March 7, 2017, part of the Tisch College Distinguished Speaker Series at Tufts University. The video is on YouTube. Note: this is not a transcript, any errors are mine.
Subtitle
with Dylan Mulvin, Postdoctoral Researcher at MSR New England
Teaser
What really happened in the Y2K crisis and did it matter? With a growing consensus that the United States is in a state of infrastructural crisis, the Y2K bug and its aftermath appears as a key moment of imagined collapse. What lessons might this recent crisis provide for demystifying technology and helping populations who are made vulnerable through interdependent technologies?
Parent Event
Huub Dijstelbloem in Nature: “As debates over migration, refugees and freedom of movement intensify, technologies are increasingly monitoring the movements of people. Biometric passports and databases containing iris scans or fingerprints are being used to check a person’s right to travel through or stay within a territory.
“Onze Supremos: o Supremo em 2016” foi escrito em parceria com o JotaOperação Lava-Jato, Impeachment e Reforma Política. Esses foram alguns dos muitos temas que passaram pelas mesas dos ministros do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) em 2016, ano em que os olhos dos brasileiros estiveram, como nunca, direcionados para o plenário onde sentam as 11 pessoas mais importantes do Judiciário brasileiro.
Thamy Pogrebinschi at Open Democracy: “The advancement of tools of information and communications technology (ICT) has the potential to impact democracy nearly as much as any other area, such as science or education.
"Vida de familia" es la cinta co-dirigida por la profesora del Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen (ICEI), Alicia Scherson, junto al cineasta Cristián Jiménez, que a partir de un modelo de producción independiente, colaborativo y asociado, rescata los vínculos personales de una familia, desde la perspectiva de un personaje que finge una vida diferente a la suya.
El Rector de la U. de Chile y presidente del Consorcio de Universidades del Estado de Chile (CUECH), Ennio Vivaldi dijo al término de la reunión en La Moneda que "las universidades estatales no pueden ser limitadas en su derecho a conversar con el Estado.
En el Salón de Honor de la Casa Central fueron recibidos los nuevos estudiantes que se integraron a la Universidad de Chile a través del Sistema de Ingreso Prioritario de Equidad Educativa (SIPEE) y del Programa de Acompañamiento y Acceso Efectivo a la Educación Superior (PACE), iniciativas que buscan asegurar el acceso a la institución a jóvenes provenientes de contextos vulnerables que tengan excelencia académica. Durante tres días podrán participar en talleres y visitas a distintos campus de la U.
Monday 13th of March, 17:00 – 18:15 @Spui25, Amsterdam.
With keynote lectures by Michiel de Lange and, Emma Fraser and Clancy Wilmott.
From Mah-Jong to the introduction of Prussian war-games, through to the emergence of location-based play: maps and play share a long and diverse history. In this programme, we will launch the book Playful Mapping in The Digital Age, which shows how playing and mapping can be liberating, dangerous, subversive and, performative.
O mundo digital e globalizado permite de forma fácil que utilizadores e organizações criem e partilhem dados por e entre diversas redes.
O IP Guarda vai promover e debater a cibersegurança uma vez que diariamente surgem novos ataques que podem comprometer a segurança de redes e sistemas.
O evento pretende ser um marco de encontro para todos os interessados na área. Este ano, o evento irá realizar-se no dia 15 de março de 2017 no Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Portugal.
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Open Review of Book by Matthew J. Salganik: “In the summer of 2009, mobile phones were ringing all across Rwanda. In addition to the millions of calls between family, friends, and business associates, about 1,000 Rwandans received a call from Joshua Blumenstock and his colleagues. The researchers were studying wealth and poverty by conducting a survey of people who had been randomly sampled from a database of 1.5 million customers from Rwanda’s largest mobile phone provider.
Executive Summary: “This government’s Plan for Britain is a plan to build a stronger, fairer country that works for everyone, not just the privileged few. …Our digital strategy now develops this further, applying the principles outlined in the Industrial Strategy green paper to the digital economy. The UK has a proud history of digital innovation: from the earliest days of computing to the development of the World Wide Web, the UK has been a cradle for inventions which have changed the world.