El Informe del Observatorio Docente, iniciativa del Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación (CIAE) de la U.

Paul Vöhringer, académico de la U. de Chile, participó de un estudio internacional sobre depresión mixta, patología que sufrirían cerca del 30 por ciento de quienes presentan episodios depresivos mayores. Estos pacientes, advierte el psiquiatra, no sólo no estarían siendo diagnosticados en la Atención Primaria de Salud, sino además estarían siendo tratados con antidepresivos, fármacos que agudizan sus síntomas y aumentan fuertemente su riesgo suicidal.

Without a doubt, this will be a busy week for the Internet Society in Latin America and the Caribbean!  In addition to the 11th LACIGF, we will be holding discussions on gender and youth, as well as a workshop for Chapter leaders in the region.
LACIGF 11: The Coming of Age of the Regional Conversation

Além do debate sobre fake news, outro tema importante sobre as eleições gira em torno do uso de bots nas redes sociais, para promover campanhas e debates políticos. A palavra é um diminutivo de robot, e pode ser definida, de forma simples, como um software que busca automatizar determinada tarefa repetitiva, como informar a previsão do tempo ou mesmo simular uma conversa humana.

Shrabonti Bagchi at LiveMint: “I have never seen economists having fun!” Anantha K. Duraiappah, director of Unesco-MGIEP (Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development), was heard exclaiming during a recent conference.

Für viele Patientinnen und Patienten ist die Diagnose ein Schock: Brustkrebs ist die häufigste Krebserkrankung der Frau in Deutschland. Rund 70.000 Frauen und 700 Männer bekommen laut dem Robert-Koch-Institut hier jedes Jahr eine Brustkrebsdiagnose. Viele Projekte arbeiten daran die Diagnose und Behandlung von Brustkrebs immer weiter zu verbessern: Das „Heart Pillow Project“ wurde im Jahr 2006 in Dänemark ins Leben gerufen. Die Kissen in Form eines Herzens mit deutlich verlängerten „Flügeln“ werden von Patientinnen und Patienten mit Brustkrebs unter den Achseln getragen.

You look like a criminal: Amazon.com’s facial recognition technology falsely flagged 28 U.S. lawmakers as criminals in a test run by the American Civil Liberties Union, The Guardian reports. Whoops! Five members of Congress have demanded an explanation from Amazon, CNET says.

Weaponized information seeks a new target in cyberspace: Users' minds
Cyberattacks target Americans’ thinking.
Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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El MERC suscribe un acuerdo de colaboración con CECE
 

Teresa Sádaba, directora académica del MERC, y Alfonso Aguiló, presidente de CECE
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Jorge Aliende

The Amrta initiative works to end water privatization in Jakarta and enable a transition to good, publicly run water services. Through research, public discussions and collaboration with civil society, this initiative has pushed the city government to announce plans to remunicipalize Jakarta’s water supply.

Michel Bauwens:  Basic income has been very much in the news in the last decade, with an increasing number of reports and policy experimentations. Even though it has conquered the support of the majority of progressive voters in Europe, there are voices that see in the basic income a ‘neoliberal plot’, citing the support of Silicon Valley luminaries. But with the basic income, the devil is in the details, and to distinguish a socially progressive version of the basic income, we must be able to judge the proposals with concrete principles in mind.

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Author(s): Brett FrischmannPublication Date: July 30, 2018Publication Type: Other WritingCross-posted from Scientific American. 

Mike Loukides, Hilary Mason and DJ Patil at O’Reilly: “(This post is the first in a series on data ethics) The hard thing about being an ethi

Julia Keutgen: On March 13–17, 2018 The GovLab brought together two dozen crowdlaw experts from around the world to collaborate on developing new ways to include more and more diverse opinions and expertise at every stage of the law- and policy-making process. The convening was held at the Rockefeller Foundation’s famed Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy. This post is the second in a series of blog posts from the crowdlaw conference participants.
A session in progress at the CrowdLaw conference at the Rockefeller Foundation conference center in Bellagio, Italy

The draft Data Protection Bill is likely to have significant impact on how companies and startups use customer data, particularly as it would increase costs and make it difficult for them to take data outside the country.
The article by Mugdha Variyar and Pratik Bhakta was published in Economic Times on July 28, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

Rules for protection of personal data in the telecom space are not sufficient, regulator TRAI said today while suggesting that consumers be given the right to choice, consent and to be forgotten to safeguard their privacy.
This was published by Bloomberg Quint on July 16, 2018. Pranesh Prakash was interviewed.

This will be a stop-gap measure before the creation of a privacy bill.
The article by Gopal Sathe was published in Huffington Post on July 16, 2018. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.

Between 2015 to 2017, Facebook nearly doubled its user base to about 250 million in India. The two other popular Facebook products, WhatsApp and Instagram, became swimmingly popular in the country, too – the messaging platform counts 200 million users here and the photos and videos sharing app some 60 million.
The article by Sunny Sen and Jayadevan PK was published by Factor Daily on July 25, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

Centre directs social media platforms to take prompt action against fake messages
The article by Komal Gupta was published in Livemint on July 27, 2018. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.

The government has written to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking an enquiry into London-based political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, and asked all social media platforms to take prompt action against fake messages, including tracing their origin. Cambridge Analytica is at the centre of a Facebook data breach row, including those of around 562,000 Indian users.

The Srikrishna committee draft law on data protection is days away. Here’s a bucket list of issues that will matter
The article by Mihir Dalal and Anirban Sen was published in Livemint on July 26, 2018. Amber Sinha was quoted.