Suvodeep Mazumdar, Stuart Wrigley and Fabio Ciravegna in Remote Sense: “The impact of Crowdsourcing and citizen science activities on academia, businesses, governance and society has been enormous. This is more prevalent today with citizens and communities collaborating with organizations, businesses and authorities to contribute in a variety of manners, starting from mere data providers to being key stakeholders in various decision-making processes.

“The first available textbook on the rapidly growing and increasingly important field of government analytics” edited by Benjamin Ginsberg, Kathy Wagner Hill and Jennifer Bachner:  “This first textbook on the increasingly important field of government analytics provides invaluable knowledge and training for students of government in the synthesis, interpretation, and communication of “big data,” which is now an integral part of governance and policy making.

Book by Chandra Clarke: “It’s so easy to be overwhelmed by everything that is wrong in the world. In 2010, there were 660,000 deaths from malaria. Dire predictions about climate change suggest that sea levels could rise enough to submerge both Los Angeles and London by 2100. Bees are dying, not by the thousands but by the millions.
But what can you do? You’re just one person, right? The good news is that you *can* do something.

Oliver Wainwright at The Guardian: “Imagine if next time you saw a plan for an oversized monster tower block proposed for your street, you could get out your smartphone and swipe left to oppose it? Or see a carefully designed scheme for a new neighbourhood library and swipe right to support it?

Davide Arcidiacono and Giuseppe Reale in PArtecipazione e COnflitto: “Young citizens show an increasing interest for direct democracy tools and for the building of a new relationship with public administration t

Los cambios globales desarrollados en las últimas décadas a partir de la globalización han debilitado la democracia tal y como se desarrolló en el período de la postguerra.

En el marco de la primera función del Festival Strauss se conmemoró un nuevo aniversario de la orquesta, instancia que contó con la presencia de numerosas autoridades universitarias, encabezadas por el Rector Ennio Vivaldi, además del público habitual que llegó al Teatro Universidad de Chile.La Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Chile inició el pasado viernes 6 de enero su Temporada 2017 con un festivo programa que incluyó algunos de los valses y polkas más reconocidos de Johann Strauss -padre e hijo-, concierto en el que además se conmemoró el

El intercambio de conocimiento, experiencias y nuevas soluciones para hacer frente a los terremotos alrededor del mundo son los propósitos de la 16° Conferencia Mundial de Ingeniería Sísmica (16WCEE, por su sigla en inglés), organizada por la Asociación Internacional de Ingeniería Sísmica, la Asociación Chilena de Sismología e Ingeniería Antisísmica y la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de nuestro plantel, entre otras instituciones, que fue inaugurada este 9 de enero y se extenderá hasta el viernes 13.Más de 2 mil expertos vinculados a la ingenier

"Diálogos entre integración intercultural y desarrollo" es el título de la nueva versión de esta actividad tradicional de la Casa de Bello que este año se realizará en la ciudad de Arica, organizada por las universidades de Chile y de Tarapacá y el Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes.

La Comunidad Electroacústica de Chile (CECh) presenta por tercera vez en el MAC esta actividad para disfrutar durante la noche del viernes 13 de enero de un concierto de música electroacústica, que acompañará el sueño de los asistentes.Este viernes, desde las 22.00 hrs. a las 8.30 hrs.

Por decisión unánime, el jurado presidido por el Rector Ennio Vivaldi decidió otorgarle a la académica de la Facultad de Derecho el reconocimiento que desde 1976 entrega la Universidad de Chile a mujeres universitarias que se hayan destacado en el campo de su profesión, en el dominio de la cultura o en el servicio del país.María Angélica Figueroa, profesora con más de 50 años de servicio y dedicación en la U.

1.SUMÁRIO

Review of several books by Massimo Mazzotti at LARB: “…As a historian of science, I have been trained to think of algorithms as sets of instructions for solving certain problems — and so as neither glamorous nor threatening. Insert the correct input, follow the instructions, and voilà, the desired output.

Nicky Rogge, Tommaso Agasisti, and Kristof De Witte in Public Policy and Administration: “The increasing availability of statistical data raises opportunities for ‘big’ data and learning analytics.

Homero Gil de Zúñiga and Trevor Diehl introducing Special Issue of the Social Science Computer Review: “This special issue of the Social Science Computer Review provides a sample of the latest strategies employing large data sets in social media and political communication research.

Justin Longo at the Center for Policy Informatics: “…I became interested in the potential for using GitHub to facilitate collaboration on text documents. This was largely inspired by the 2012 TED Talk by Clay Shirky where he argued that open source programmers could teach us something about how to do open governance:

Lydia Dishman at Fast Company: “Unconscious bias is exactly what it sounds like: The associations we make whenever we face a decision are buried so deep (literally—the gland responsible for this, the amygdala, is surrounded by the brain’s gray matter) that we’re as unaware of them as we are of having to breathe.

Abstract

Center for Data Science and Public Policy: “Want to know if your organization is ready to start a data-driven social impact project? See where you are in our data maturity framework and how to improve your organizational, tech, and data readiness.
The Data Maturity Framework has three content areas:

• Problem Definition
• Data and Technology Readiness
• Organizational Readiness

The Data Maturity Framework consists of:

John Manzoni at Civil Service Quaterly: “Government holds massive amounts of data. The potential in that data for transforming the way government makes policy and delivers public services is equally huge.