# data[].attributes.body
Tecnica de Arbol de Problemas

# data[].attributes.body
TECNICA DEL ARBOL DE PROBLEMAS

# data[].attributes.body
Introduccion

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.authors[].name
ACUMAR Autoridad de Cuenca Matanza Riachuelo

# data[].attributes.body
ACUMAR

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.authors[].name
ACUMAR Autoridad de Cuenca Matanza Riachuelo

# data[].attributes.body
Dimension del Objeto de estudio.

# data[].attributes.headline
Recorrida de Campo -Completa 1er tramo Riachuelo-Matanza.

# data[].attributes.subject
Recorrida de Campo -Completa 1er tramo Riachuelo-Matanza.

# data[].attributes.body
SON 27 minutos

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.authors[].name
ACUMAR Autoridad de Cuenca Matanza Riachuelo

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Río Matanza - Riachuelo partiendo desde Vuelta de Rocha

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Saneamiento de la Cuenca Matanza - Riachuelo. Fallo Mendoza

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Saneamiento de la Cuenca Matanza - Riachuelo. Salud

# data[].attributes.body
Los sedimentos de 200 años de contaminar/ Industria + actividad del desecho ambientaly social.

# data[].attributes.headline
UN PROBLEMA INVISIBILIZADO/ EXOLGAN   -Actor Social involucrado

# data[].attributes.subject
UN PROBLEMA INVISIBILIZADO/ EXOLGAN   -Actor Social involucrado

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Gustavo Mozeris es ingeniero agrónomo y docente de la Cátedra de Sistemas Alimentarios de la Facultad de Agronomía de la UBA. Hace dos años presentó junto al ingeniero Hugo Cetrángolo y a la Cátedra de Química Analítica de la Facultad un estudio que advertía sobre la contaminación que generaría el dragado de los sedimentos del Riachuelo y la decisión de volcarlos en las aguas abiertas del Río de la Plata. Mozeris afirma que la advertencia no fue tenida en cuenta y sostiene que ahora la calidad del agua que toman las 17 millones de personas que viven en Capital y Gran Buenos Aires está seriamente cuestionada. "Se trata de sedimentos que entran dentro de lo que se categoriza como residuo peligroso y deben tener un tratamiento especial, un confinamiento, un procesamiento. Son contaminantes cancerígenos". El especialista reconoce que desde el ACUMAR -creado en 2006 a partir de la intervención de la Corte Suprema- hay un trabajo muy fuerte en la superficie pero asegura que, en el fondo, el Riachuelo sigue tan sucio como siempre y dice que es necesario dar un debate público y urgente sobre este tema.

¿Cómo surgió el estudio que realizaron?
La facultad viene trabajando desde hace muchos años, te diría desde fines de los noventa en lo que es el relevamiento de los sedimentos de la Cuenca Matanza Riachuelo, en interacción además con la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, sobre el impacto de la contaminación de la cuenca en la gente que vive a los costados, desde la zona agrícola ganadera, más aguas arriba, en Las Heras y Cañuelas, hasta el puerto de Dock Sud. Siempre se habla en términos de Riachuelo -que es la última porción y la más contaminada- pero en realidad la cuenca es mucho más grande y viene atravesando zonas rurales y zonas urbanas.
¿Dónde tomaron la muestra?
Trabajamos en la evaluación de los contenidos de los metales pesados en los sedimentos de la cuenca en la última fracción. Es la zona conocida como Cuatro Bocas, donde desemboca el Riachuelo contra el Río de la Plata y se colecta todo lo que la cuenca viene arrastrando sedimentariamente. Entre Dock Sud y el Puerto de Buenos Aires.Sabíamos quesi evaluábamos ahí, íbamos a tener una idea de cómo había evolucionado después de las tomas de muestras que se habían hecho en los noventa y a principios de los 2000.

Y empeoró.
Y contra todo pronóstico, porque el ACUMAR viene trabajando fuertemente en la limpieza de la cuenca, la sorpresa fue que los contenidos eran tan elevados como en aquel entonces y más en algunos casos.
El agua que vos tomás ¿Cuáles fueron las conclusiones más preocupantes?
Los altos niveles de metales pesados encontrados en los sedimentos del Riachuelo. Tomamos conocimiento de una obra de dragado para poder entrar al Puerto con buques de mayor calado y de que la obra preveía tirar los sedimentos contaminantes en el Río de la Plata, aguas arriba de las tomas de agua de Bernal. Ahí, nosotros hicimos una presentación de los informes y alertamos porque según la normativa eso no se podía dragar y volcar libremente: entran dentro de lo que se categoriza como residuo peligroso y deben tener un tratamiento especial, un confinamiento, un procesamiento.
Pero no se hizo nada de eso.
No. El dragado a cargo de la empresa Exolgan fue la remoción de los sedimentos para que puedan ingresar los barcos. Pero de limpieza no hubo nada. Esos sedimentos no podían ser volcados en aguas abiertas del Río de la Plata porque -aunque fuera en lugares previstos con coordenadas- no tuvieron ningún tipo de tratamiento. Tanto la normativa española como la holandesa, indicaba que a esos niveles de concentración de cromo y de mercurio, estaba prohibido arrojarlos en aguas abiertas.

Exolgan tiró los sedimentos altamente contaminados del Riachuelo en el Río de la Plata, aguas arriba de las tomas de agua de Bernal.
¿Qué niveles de contaminación encontraron?
Según la normativa española, el caso del cromo era categoría 2 y 3, las más elevadas. Cuando vos evaluás un conjunto de metales pesados, con que haya uno solo por encima de los niveles, ese es el que actúa como limitante. El cobre y el zinc eran categoría 2.
Ustedes dicen que esos tres millones de metros cúbicos de sedimentos que se volcaron son una amenaza para la salud de la población.
Sí, porque el Río de la Plata es la fuente de agua de toda la ciudad de Buenos Aires y del Gran Buenos Aires. Eso existe en el Riachuelo, allá abajo, en el sedimento, ocluido y mezclado con un montón de otras sustancias orgánicas. Los contaminantes quedan en el fondo. A nadie se le ocurre ir a sacar agua del Riachuelo y tomársela. Si sacás esos sedimentos y los volcás en aguas abiertas, el cromo se diluye y ahí están las tomas de agua de Aysa, que abastecen a la ciudad. Por eso, nosotros decimos que hay que empezar a discutir cómo se autorizan estas obras que ponen en alto riesgo la salud de la población.
Las autoridades encargadas del dragado son Nación, provincia y ciudad.
Sí, porque en esta obra tomó participación la ACUMAR y la OPDS, la Organización de Producción de Desarrollo Sustentable, que es la que tiene competencia sobre las cuestiones de carácter ambiental.

Entonces se agrava la contaminación pese al fallo de la Corte Suprema y a la creación del ACUMAR.
Hay un trabajo muy fuerte desde el punto de vista social y de limpieza de cuestiones que están más a la vista. Barcos que estaban hundidos en las orillas, el sacado de las areneras del primer tramo en el Riachuelo. Hay mucho de limpieza pero nada concretamente con respecto a los sedimentos y a la discusión de qué hacer con esos sedimentos.
Miguel Ángel Lico que es miembro del ACUMAR y administrador del Puerto de Dock Sud afirma que el estudio de ustedes no fue tomado en cuenta por nadie.
El informe tomó estado público y se puso a disposición pero la verdad es que no se ha podido avanzar mucho. Hubo algunas reuniones en la ACUMAR hace dos años, después se discontinuaron y no fuimos convocados. Es necesario crear una normativa propia para ver cómo se deben manejar los sedimentos de los distintos puertos, el de Buenos Aires, el de Bahía Blanca. Hace falta armar una comisión con todos los especialistas, que hay muy buenos en el país, en torno a lo que tiene que ver con sedimentos y contaminantes.
¿De quién es la responsabilidad mayor?
Esto tiene una connotación claramente técnica y de competencia directa de los organismos técnicos de contralor. Hay mucho por discutir.
Pescado podrido ¿Cuál sería el mensaje para la sociedad y cuál sería el llamado o la advertencia a los distintos niveles del Estado?
El llamado es doble, efectivamente. A la sociedad le diría que se informe, que no compre pescado podrido cuando le dicen que el Riachuelo está limpio. Lo esencial del Riachuelo es invisible a los ojos, está allá abajo, es un peligro potencial para la salud de los 17 millones de habitantes de la ciudad de Buenos Aires y del Gran Buenos Aires. No se trata sólo de ver si está más limpio en términos de latas y de botellas sino de que haya un plan concreto de limpieza de lo que está ahí abajo. Ojo que, al momento de la pancarta, la limpieza del Riachuelo es un estandarte que no existe.
¿Ese plan concreto no existe?
No, no existe. El segundo llamado es a los que tienen su responsabilidad como funcionarios: recordarles que sus familias, sus hijos viven en la ciudad de Buenos Aires y que beben de esa agua: que tienen la responsabilidad de hacer cumplir las normas o de generar las normas que sean necesarias.

En el Riachuelo se limpió la superficie, pero lo esencial no es sacar latas y botellas sino los sedimentos contaminados que siguen amenazando a 17 millones de personas.
¿Qué tipo de enfermedades se pueden contraer?
¿Qué querés que te diga? En realidad estos contaminantes son cancerígenos. El cromo, el plomo...y es totalmente silencioso. Un hijo tuyo agarra de la canilla, toma...Aysa asegura un servicio de un agua que está en condiciones, pero qué pasa si no le prestamos atención a todos estos elementos.
¿Qué pasó con la presentación que hicieron ante la Justicia?
Nada. Fuimos a la Justicia para que se frene la obra y hoy está en la Corte Suprema, pero la verdad es que el dragado ya se hizo y el daño también. ¿Qué puede llegar a pasar? Que lo tomen en consideración y que hagan un fallo ex post y que ese fallo intime a las partes a sentarse a charlar con un plan concreto.
¿Por qué plantean la necesidad de un debate público?
Yo siempre cito el Himno de la Universidad de La Plata que dice: "ya nos dijeron que el mundo es malo, por obra nuestra será mejor". Por eso, pedimos el debate público con las universidades y los organismos de contralor. Es lo mismo para cualquier problema que abordes a nivel de desarrollo sostenible de la Argentina. Hablamos del impacto social y la competitividad de los sistemas productivos, no sólo en términos de ganancia sino de sustentabilidad. Lo social, lo económico y lo medioambiental. Esa ecuación sólo es viable cuando se logra un rédito económico sin dañar el medio ambiente. Si no, no tenés un espacio vivible.

¿En el caso del Riachuelo, la ecuación da inviable e invivible?
Exactamente. Porque económicamente vos me podés decir que si entran buques de mayor porte, todo mejora. Pero yo te digo si, hermano, pero me estás tirando toda la porquería que sacaste de ahí abajo en el Río de la Plata y no es viable -como sociedad- que me metas el cromo y el plomo en el agua que voy a tomar.
De María Julia a Cabandié ¿Qué piensa cuando vuelve a escuchar la frase de María Julia Alsogaray "en mil días limpiamos el Riachuelo"?
Primero que no lleva mil días, lleva toda una vida. Y segundo, que en algún momento tiene que llegar el primero de esos días: tiene que empezar pero responsablemente y ese día no llegó. Aunque me quieran decir que el Riachuelo está más limpio y está más lindo, que está pintado. Ese día va a empezar cuando los organismos de contralor y el Estado nacional y provincial puedan trabajar seriamente con las industrias para evitar el volcado de todos sus desechos.
El legislador Juan Cabandié fue el último que se mostró optimista con el tema.
Ese es el discurso. Por eso, yo digo que le pido a la sociedad que no compren pescado podrido y que se informen y antes de salir a flamear una bandera, que sepan realmente.
¿Qué se hace en los países que ustedes toman como referencia?
En Holanda, por ejemplo, arman planta de tratamientos de sedimentos. Tratan de aislar esos contenidos, hay otros sistemas a través de geomembranas, hay incineraciones, hay tratamiento progresivo. Obviamente es más costoso aunque lo paradójico es que las mismas empresas que operan acá, operan allá. Pero lo hacen de distinta manera. Mínimamente lo que pedimos es el mismo tipo de tratamiento.
La lógica de las empresas ya es conocida, lo que sorprende es la forma de actuar de las autoridades.
Uno, podría decir que ACUMAR está funcionando hace poco, hay mucho que ajustar en términos de procedimiento, darle mayor participación a las asociaciones de la sociedad civil y las universidades.
¿Cómo sigue esto de parte de ustedes?
Nosotros vamos a seguir adelante, tratando de hacer lo que hacen las universidades: aportando conocimiento para que se puedan tomar buenas decisiones.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
"El dragado del Riachuelo contaminó el agua que toma la gente"

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Gustavo Mozeris es ingeniero agrónomo y docente de la Cátedra de Sistemas Alimentarios de la Facultad de Agronomía de la UBA. Hace dos años presentó junto al ingeniero Hugo Cetrángolo y a la Cátedra de Química Analítica de la Facultad un estudio que advertía sobre la contaminación que generaría el dragado de los sedimentos del Riachuelo y la decisión de volcarlos en las aguas abiertas del Río de la Plata.

# data[].attributes.headline
Problemas Ambientales-Consigna reconocer 10 Problemas 

# data[].attributes.subject
Problemas Ambientales-Consigna reconocer 10 Problemas 

# data[].attributes.body
Comuna 4 LA BOCA/Desembocadura Riachuelo/Dique0/Isla Demarchi/Rio de la Plata.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
El juez responsable de la causa del saneamiento del Riachuelo, Jorge Rodríguez, dictó una medida cautelar que frenó los trabajos de dragado en la desembocadura del Riachuelo en el sector conocido como Cuatro Bocas. Fue a raíz de un recurso de amparo presentado por la Fundación Agronegocios y Alimentos, que denunció que los barros extraídos eran arrojados sin tratamiento en las aguas del Río de la Plata.

La decisión se basa en un informe de la UBA, que indica que los sedimentos están contaminados con metales pesados, como cromo, arsénico, zinc, plomo y cadmio, que representan una amenaza a la salud de la población.

La Fundación se presentó ante la Justicia por la sospecha de que los trabajos no se ajustaban a la normativa ambiental. Ahora el juez, que está al frente de la causa tras el apartamiento de Luis Armella, le ordenó a la Autoridad de Cuenca Matanza-Riachuelo (ACUMAR) que elabore un informe y que verifique que la obra no continúe.

Esta obra comenzó el 4 de marzo y se estaba realizando en Cuatro Bocas, que es el punto donde se conectan la desembocadura del Riachuelo, el Río de la Plata, Dock Sud y los diques de Puerto Madero. La encargó la terminal de contenedores Exolgan, con el objetivo de que puedan ingresar barcos de más de 300 metros de eslora.

Para esto hace falta recortar una de las cabeceras y mover 1.300.000 metros cúbicos de sedimentos del lecho del Riachuelo.

De esta manera, se duplicaría la profundidad actual del curso de agua, que es de apenas un metro.

En la Fundación reclaman la detención de los trabajos hasta que se realicen estudios complementarios de los suelos a dragar. El argumento es que estos barros estaban siendo volcados sin tratamiento ni control a cielo abierto en el Río de la Plata y sus costas. Y que esto implica un riesgo para la población, que se abastece de agua de este río.

"Estos sedimentos están altamente contaminados con metales pesados, como el plomo, el zinc, el cromo y el arsénico y son extraídos en aguas que tienen oxígeno cero. Todo esto no sólo es contrario a los parámetros que regulan el dragado en el Río de la Plata, sino que además consta claramente en un informe de laboratorio de la UBA, que se encuentra en conocimiento de la Justicia", explica su presidente, Gustavo Mozeris.

El informe fue realizado en febrero por la Cátedra de Química Analítica de la Facultad de Agronomía de la UBA, en base a muestras de sedimentos del fondo del cauce tomados en noviembre en cinco puntos de Cuatro Bocas. El trabajo revela que tienen una contaminación entre moderada y alta de cobre, cromo y plomo, que ofrecen una altísima probabilidad de tener efectos tóxicos.

También se encontraron distintas concentraciones de mercurio y arsénico.

"Sobre el análisis de las concentraciones de las sustancias contaminantes, los sedimentos del Riachuelo en la zona de Cuatro Bocas corresponden a la clase 4, asignación correspondiente al nivel del metal más restrictivo. Por lo tanto, utilizando como referencia la normativa holandesa, el material dragado no se puede relocalizar en aguas abiertas sin medidas de contención o tratamiento previo ", detalla el informe, que indica que el manejo inapropiado de los sedimentos puede producir un importante riesgo ambiental. Por eso recomienda no arrojarlos en el Río de la Plata y aconseja evaluar "otras alternativas para su reubicación".

El juez tomó en cuenta este informe y entendió que, más allá de la importancia de las obras para el desarrollo del Puerto, es necesario tomar "medidas preventivas que protejan el ambiente". Por eso ordenó la inmediata detención de la obra de dragado que está realizando Exolgan. Además, le pidió a la ACUMAR que haga cumplir la medida y le ordenó que inspeccione el predio cada diez días, que verifique que la empresa haya realizado un informe de impacto ambiental, y que realice un informe sobre el estado del dragado junto al Organismo Provincial para el Desarrollo Sostenible (OPDS). Desde la ACUMAR ayer dijeron que acatarán el fallo.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
La Justicia frenó obras de dragado en el Riachuelo

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
El juez responsable de la causa del saneamiento del Riachuelo, Jorge Rodríguez, dictó una medida cautelar que frenó los trabajos de dragado en la desembocadura del Riachuelo en el sector conocido como Cuatro Bocas.

# data[].attributes.headline
De Frente al Rio PLAN de DESARROLLO 2019-2023

# data[].attributes.subject
De Frente al Rio PLAN de DESARROLLO 2019-2023

# data[].attributes.body
Ultimo Insumo de Gestion Coordinada Multiactoral, Nacion-CABA- Provincia- Municipos-ACUMAR.

# data[].attributes.headline
El Bien + preciado y cada vez mas escaso. El "ORO" de mañana

# data[].attributes.subject
El Bien + preciado y cada vez mas escaso. El "ORO" de mañana

# data[].attributes.body
PROF. DR.MASARU EMOTO

# data[].attributes.body
PROF. DR.MASARU EMOTO

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
¿Tiene memoria el agua? Estudio de Masaru Emoto en cristales agua.

# data[].attributes.headline
Khrishnamurti. "Se tu el cambio que quieres para el mundo" Mahatma Ghandi.

# data[].attributes.subject
Khrishnamurti. "Se tu el cambio que quieres para el mundo" Mahatma Ghandi.

# data[].attributes.body
DESDE EL ECOCENTRISMO

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Krishnamurti - Conocerse uno mismo es el principio de la sabiduría

# data[].attributes.body
FILOSOFIA DE LA NATURALEZA

# data[].attributes.headline
Educarnos en la aceptación de la diversidad de pensamientos

# data[].attributes.subject
Educarnos en la aceptación de la diversidad de pensamientos

# data[].attributes.body
Como hablar con otros que piensan distinto!!!!

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Cómo hablar con otros que piensan distinto | Guadalupe Nogués | TEDxRiodelaPlata

# data[].attributes.body
Fractura del Habitat

# data[].attributes.headline
El valor del Proceso de acercamiento a la verdad antes que la verdad en si misma.

# data[].attributes.subject
El valor del Proceso de acercamiento a la verdad antes que la verdad en si misma.

# data[].attributes.body
Hoy podes ser tu heroe.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
In a highly politically charged environment, an oft-overlooked topic is the role of inequality in COVID-19 outcomes. In this post, I use data to explore the impact of income inequality on Covid mortality, and explain why I am continuing this effort in collaboration with the World Health Organization.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
In a highly politically charged environment, an oft-overlooked topic is the role of inequality in COVID-19 outcomes. In this post, I use data to explore the impact of income inequality on Covid mortality, and explain why I am continuing this effort in collaboration with the World Health Organization.

# data[].attributes.headline
"No estoy diciendo que haya sido perfecto durante el año pasado. Me he equivocado muchas veces. Pero creo que todos podemos aprender a acercarnos a la ciencia como un método para encontrar la verdad, en lugar de la verdad en sí misma ”. Youyang Gu

# data[].attributes.subject
"No estoy diciendo que haya sido perfecto durante el año pasado. Me he equivocado muchas veces. Pero creo que todos podemos aprender a acercarnos a la ciencia como un método para encontrar la verdad, en lugar de la verdad en sí misma ”. Youyang Gu

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Skip to Content

He made a machine-learning model in a week and ran it daily on his laptop (it only took an hour), generating remarkably accurate covid-19 predictions.

The data scientist Youyang Gu thinks of himself as a realist-he declares it in his Twitter profile: "Presenter of unbiased takes. Realist."

When he noticed the scattershot covid-19 projections last spring-one model projected 2 million US deaths by the summer, another predicted 60,000-Gu questioned whether that was as good as the modeling could be. He decided to take a shot at making a covid-19 model himself. "My whole entire goal was to produce the most accurate model possible," Gu says, from his apartment in Manhattan. "No 'if this' or 'if that.' Basically, no 'ifs.' It doesn't really matter what the scenarios are. I just wanted to lay it out: 'This is the most likely or realistic forecast for what's going to happen.'"

Within a week, he'd built a machine-learning model and launched his COVID-19 Projections website. He ran the model every day-it only took one hour on his laptop-and posted covid-19 death projections for 50 US states, 34 counties, and 71 countries.

By the end of April, he was attracting attention-ultimately, millions checked his website daily. Carl Bergstrom, a professor of biology at the University of Washington, took notice and commented on Twitter that Gu's model was "making predictions that seem as good as any I've seen."

"I can be a bit of an ML skeptic. But in this case, don't let the 'machine learning' text fool you into thinking this is snake oil," Bergstrom tweeted.

An MIT grad with a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science (plus a degree in math), Gu, 27, had been working on a sports analytics startup when the pandemic hit. But he put that venture on pause as major league sports shut down. And then, by simply googling "epidemiology," he began his foray into covid-19 modeling.

"I had zero background in infectious-disease modeling," he says. But he did have a few years' experience as a data scientist in finance, working with statistical models-models that, based on certain statistical assumptions, analyze data and make projections about, say, where the price of a stock will be in the future.

"It turns out that a lot of infectious-disease modeling is basically statistical modeling," says Gu. And the finance industry's profit-driven goal for accuracy served him well in the epidemiological domain. "If you can't make an accurate model in finance, you won't have a job anymore," he says. By contrast, the goal in academia-from Gu's perspective, at least-is not so much to make accurate models, but rather to publish papers and inform public policy. "That's not to say they don't make accurate models-just that they don't optimize specifically for accuracy," he says.

Gu's model combines machine learning with a classic infectious-disease simulator called an SEIR model (factoring in individuals in the population who are susceptible, exposed, infectious, recovered, or removed due to death).

The SEIR component uses as input a simulated set of parameters-a best-guess range for variables such as the basic reproduction number (the rate at which new cases arise in an entirely susceptible population at the start of an outbreak, before interventions or immunity), infection rate, lockdown date, reopening date, and effective reproduction number (the rate at which new cases arise after some interventions). In terms of outputs, the SEIR simulator first computes the infections over time, and then computes the deaths (multiplying infections by the infection fatality rate).

Gu's machine-learning layer then generates thousands of different combinations for those parameter sets in trying to find the real-life parameters for each geographical region. It learns which parameters generate the most accurate death projections by comparing the SEIR predictions with real data on daily deaths from Johns Hopkins University. "It tries to learn what parameter sets generate deaths that most closely match the actual observed data, looking back," says Gu. "And then it uses those parameters to forecast and make projections about deaths into the future."

The forecasts proved remarkably accurate. For instance, on May 3, he made an appearance on CNN Tonight and shared his model's projections that the US would reach 70,000 deaths on May 5, 80,000 deaths on May 11, 90,000 deaths on May 18, and 100,000 deaths on May 27. On May 28, he tweeted, "covid19-projections.com got all 4 dates exactly correct." With some rounding, that was true.

"I'm not saying I've been perfect over this past year. I've been wrong many times. But I think we can all learn to approach science as a method of finding the truth, rather than the truth itself." Youyang Gu

The model wasn't perfect, of course, but it impressed Nicholas Reich, a biostatistician and infectious-disease researcher at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, whose lab, in collaboration with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, aggregates results from about 100 international modeling teams. Among all the aggregated models, Reich observed, Gu's model was "consistently among the top."

On October 6, Gu posted his final death forecast, just before the fall wave. The model projected there would be 231,000 deaths in the US by November 1. The total recorded by that date: 230,995.

Gu shut down his first model in early October because by then there were lots of teams doing good death forecasts. He turned instead to modeling true infections versus reported infections. And then in December he started tracking vaccine rollout and the elusive " pat h to herd immunity"-which in early 2021 he revised to "path to normality." Whereas herd immunity is achieved when a sufficient portion of a population is immune to the virus, thus curtailing further spread, Gu defines normality as "the lifting of all covid-19-related restrictions for the majority of US states."

"It became clear that we're not going to reach herd immunity in 2021, at least definitely not across the whole country," he says. "And I think it's important, especially if you're trying to instill confidence, that we make sensible paths to when we can go back to normal. We shouldn't be pegging that on an unrealistic goal like reaching herd immunity. I'm still cautiously optimistic that my original forecast in February, for a return to normal in the summer, will be valid."

In early March, he packed up shop entirely-he figured he'd made what contribution he could. "I wanted to step back and let the other modelers and experts do their work," he says. "I don't want to muddle the space."

He's still keeping an eye on the data, doing research and analysis-on the variants, the vaccine rollout, and the fourth wave. "If I see anything that's particularly troubling or worrisome that I think people aren't talking about, I'll definitely post it," he says. But for the time being he is focusing on other projects, such as " YOLO Stocks," a stock ticker analytics platform. His main pandemic work is as a member of the World Health Organization's technical advisory group on covid-19 mortality assessment, where he shares his outsider's expertise.

"I've definitely learned a lot this past year," Gu says. "It was very eye-opening."

Lesson #1: Focus on fundamentals

"From the data science perspective, my models have shown the importance of simplicity, which is often undervalued," says Gu. His death forecasting model was simple in not only its design-the SEIR component with a machine-learning layer-but also its very pared-down, "bottom-up" approach regarding input data. Bottom-up means "start from the bare-bones minimum and add complexity as needed," he says. "My model only uses past deaths to predict future deaths. It doesn't use any other real data source."

Gu noticed that other models drew on an eclectic variety data about cases, hospitalizations, testing, mobility, mask use, comorbidities, age distribution, demographics, pneumonia seasonality, annual pneumonia death rate, population density, air pollution, altitude, smoking data, self-reported contacts, airline passenger traffic, point of care, smart thermometers, Facebook posts, Google searches, and more.

"There is this belief that if you add more data to the model, or make it more sophisticated, then the model will do better," he says. "But in real-word situations like the pandemic, where data is so noisy, you want to keep things as simple as possible."

"I decided early on that past deaths are the best predictor of future deaths. It's very simple: input, output. Adding more data sources will just make it more difficult to extract the signal from the noise."

Lesson #2: Minimize assumptions

Gu considers that he had an advantage in approaching the problem with a blank slate. "My goal was to just follow the data on covid to learn about covid," he says. "That's one of the main benefits of an outsider's perspective."

But not being an epidemiologist, Gu also had to be sure that he wasn't making incorrect or inaccurate assumptions. "My role is to design the model such that it can learn the assumptions for me," he says.

"When new data comes along that goes against our beliefs, sometimes we tend to overlook that new data or ignore it, and that can cause repercussions down the road," he notes. "I certainly found myself falling victim to that, and I know that lots of other people have as well."

"So being aware of the potential bias that we have and recognizing it, and being able to adjust our priors-adjusting our beliefs if new data disproves them-is really important, especially in a fast-moving environment like what we've seen with covid."

Lesson #3: Test the hypothesis

"What I've seen over the last few months is that anyone can make claims or manipulate data to fit the narrative of what they want to believe in," Gu says. This highlights the importance of simply making testable hypotheses.

"For me, that is the whole basis of my projections and forecasts. I have a set of assumptions, and if those assumptions are true, then this is what we predict will happen in the future," he says. "And if the assumptions end up being wrong, then of course we have to admit that the assumptions we make are not true and adjust accordingly. If you don't make testable hypotheses, then there is no way to show whether you are actually right or wrong."

Lesson #4: Learn from mistakes

"Not all the projections that I made were correct," Gu says. In May 2020, he projected 180,000 deaths in the US by the beginning of August. "That is much higher than we saw," he recalls (there were about 155,000 deaths). His testable hypothesis proved incorrect-"and that forced me to adjust my assumptions."

At the time, Gu was using a fixed infection fatality rate of approximately 1% as a constant in the SEIR simulator. When in the summer he lowered the infection fatality rate to about 0.4% (and later to about 0.7%), his projections returned to a more realistic range.

Lesson #5: Engage critics

"Not everyone will agree with my ideas, and I welcome that," says Gu, who used Twitter to post his projections and analysis. "I try to respond to people as much as I can, and defend my position, and debate with people. It forces you to think about what your assumptions are and why you think they are correct."

"It goes back to confirmation bias," he says. "If I am not able to properly defend my position, then is it really the right claim, and should I be making these claims? It helps me understand, by engaging with other people, how to think about these problems. When other people present evidence that counters my positions, I have to be able to acknowledge when I may be incorrect in some of my assumptions. And that has actually helped me tremendously in improving my model."

Lesson #6: Exercise healthy skepticism

"I am now much more skeptical of science-and it's not a bad thing," Gu says. "I think it's important to always question results, but in a healthy way. It's a fine line. Because a lot of people just flat-out reject science, and that's not the way to go about it either."

"But I think it's also important to not just blindly trust science," he continues. "Scientists aren't perfect." It is appropriate, he says, if something doesn't seem right, to ask questions and find explanations. "It's important to have different perspectives. If there is anything we've learned over the past year, it's that no one is 100% right all the time."

"I can't speak for all scientists, but my job is to cut through all the noise and get to the truth," he says. "I'm not saying I've been perfect over this past year. I've been wrong many times. But I think we can all learn to approach science as a method of finding the truth, rather than the truth itself."

Stay connected

Illustration by Rose Wong

Get the latest updates from
MIT Technology Review

Discover special offers, top stories, upcoming events, and more.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Lessons from the pandemic's superstar data scientist, Youyang Gu

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Skip to Content He made a machine-learning model in a week and ran it daily on his laptop (it only took an hour), generating remarkably accurate covid-19 predictions. The data scientist Youyang Gu thinks of himself as a realist-he declares it in his Twitter profile: "Presenter of unbiased takes. Realist."

# data[].attributes.headline
PROBLEMAS  de La Comuna 4 gestion participativa

# data[].attributes.subject
PROBLEMAS  de La Comuna 4 gestion participativa

# data[].attributes.body
Dentro del proceso participativo desde el Cosejo Consultivo

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Actualización Vecinal PUA, Comuna 4, presentación por Silvia Cornejo.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Con referencias como el Támesis y el Nervión, cómo imaginar –y lograr– que las riberas se conviertan en lugares de esparcimiento turístico y de ocio

# data[].attributes.body
Para subir la practica de AP

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
PU 2022 Comision 12 E2 Arbol de Problemas - - Google Jamboard

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
The version of the browser you are using is no longer supported. Please upgrade to a supported browser. Dismiss

# data[].attributes.headline
PLANET UNA EMPRESA DE RELEVAMIENTO DE IMAGENES SATELITALES

# data[].attributes.subject
PLANET UNA EMPRESA DE RELEVAMIENTO DE IMAGENES SATELITALES

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Big data, bigmission

In 2009, we set out to image the entire world every day. Nine years and almost 200 satellites later, we've released a geospatial platform, achieved daily, global imaging capacity, and are hard at work analyzing our data to deliver insights.

These are the types of challenges that get us excited and we're looking for colleagues who share our passion.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Careers - Satellite Imagery and Monitoring | Planet

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
We image the world everyday and make global change visible, accessible and actionable. We understand that images can tell the most powerful stories and we are dedicated to being a voice for our Planet to tell them. Join us. Become a part of our story.

# data[].attributes.headline
COMO ENTENDER LA IMPORTANCIA DE "LA MODELIZACION"

# data[].attributes.subject
COMO ENTENDER LA IMPORTANCIA DE "LA MODELIZACION"

# data[].attributes.body
LA CIENCIA Y LA INVESTIGACION, MODELIZA LA REALIDAD, PARA ANALIZAR, CONOCER , COMPRENDER Y COMPRENDER Y  OPERAR SOBRE LA MISMA

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
The following institutions participate in the TRANSMEDIA LITERACY project:

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain) (Coordination)

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain)

Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)

University of Jyväskylä (Finland)

Universidade do Minho (Portugal)

Universidad de la República (Uruguay)

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia)

Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy)

With the collaboration of RMIT University (Australia)

Researchers

Carlos A. Scolari (Principal Investigator) - Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) - Carlos A. Scolari has a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and Communication Languages (Catholic University of Milan, Italy) and a Degree in Social Communication (University of Rosario, Argentina). He is Associate Professor (tenure) at the Department of Communication of the University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). Researcher specialized in transmedia storytelling, collaborative culture, user-generated contents, narratology, and semiotics of new media. He coordinated the Latin American Network of Digital Communication (ICOD Network) / Digital Communicators Project - ALFA Programme (2004-06). Author of 15 books about digital media, theories of communication and semiotics of media. His articles have been published in New Media and Society, Communication Theory, International Journal of Communication, Semiotica, Information, Communication & Society, Comunicación y Sociedad, etc. Professor in different master and PhD courses in Europe and Latin America.

Joan Ferrés Prats - Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) - Joan Ferrés Prats has a Ph.D in Information Sciences (Autonomous University of Barcelona), a Degree in Information Sciences (Autonomous University of Barcelona) and a Degree of Teacher in Primary Education (Barcelona University). He is Associate Professor (tenure) at the Department of Communication of the University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). Researcher specialized in media literacy, communication and education and emotional competence. He has been the PI of different projects related with media literacy as Undergraduate teaching faced with the audiovisual communication competence in a digital environment and Evaluation of the media competence of Spanish citizenship.

Óliver Pérez Latorre - Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) - Oliver Pérez Latorre has a Ph.D. in Social Communication (University Pompeu Fabra, 2010) and a Degree in Audiovisual Communication (UPF, 2002). He is Lecturer at the Department of Communication of the University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). His work is focused on game studies, studies of visual language and audiovisual narrative and new trends of popular culture in audiovisual media. He has published the book El Lenguaje Videolúdico. Análisis de la significación del videojuego ( The Videoludic Language. Analysis of videogame signification) (2012).

Maria-Jose Masanet - Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) - Maria-Jose Masanet has a Ph.D. in Social Communication (University Pompeu Fabra, 2015), a Degree in Audiovisual Communication (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain), a MA in Social Communication (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain) and a MA in Secondary and Upper Secondary Education, Vocational Training and Foreign Language Teaching (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain). She is researcher at the Pompeu Fabra University. She has been visiting researcher at the Loughborough University (2013), at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (2014), at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 (2015) and at the Centre de Liaison de l'Enseignement et des Médias d'Information (2015) . Her main research lines are related with media education, adolescence, series and the representation of sexuality and love relationships in the media. Email: mjose.masanet@upf.edu

Mar Guerrero - Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) - Mar Guerrero works as a research assistant at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain). She holds a PhD in Social Communication (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016), a MA in Communication and Creative Industries (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2010) and a BA in Journalism (Universidad de Navarra, 2007). Her articles have been published in journals such as Communication & Society, Signo y Pensamiento, Comunicación y Sociedad (Mexico) and Palabra Clave. Her research interests include transmedia storytelling, online fandom, television shows and social media.

Nohemi Lugo Rodríguez - Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) - Nohemi Lugo has a PhD on Transmedia Storytelling and Education (Department of Communication, UPF).She has a Master's Degree in Literature from Western Michigan University, USA and, a Bachelor's Degree in Communication from Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. She is an associate professor at the Department of Communication and Digital Arts at the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Queretaro, Mexico. She has published "Relato digital. Continuidad y rompimiento en la narrativa" (Digital Storytelling: continuity and change in narrative). Her studies focus on collective, interactive and transmedia storytelling, as well as media literacy in formal education settings.

María José Establés - Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) - María José Establés works as predoctoral researcher at Pompeu Fabra University. Her PhD is founded by the Ministry of Economy of Spain. She holds a B.A. in Communication Studies (UCM ), an M.A. in Journalism (UCM) and a M.A. Communication and Learning in the Digital Society (UAH). She has also been a visiting researcher at the Agora Game Lab at University of Jyväskylä (Finland), participating in several research projects on media education in Finnish and Spanish schools. She has been a visiting researcher at Bournemouth University (UK) for six months too. Her research interests are focused on fandom and online communities, with special interest in fan content for social, pedagogical and political purposes. In addition, she has published articles and chapters about online journalism, e-politics and audiovisual narrative.

Elisenda Ardevol - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Barcelona) - Dr. Elisenda Ardévol is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Humanities at the Open University of Catalonia where she teaches Social and Cultural Anthropology and Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences. She also collaborates with the Ph.D. International Interdisciplinary Program in the Information and Knowledge Society (UOC) and post-graduate courses in Visual and Digital Anthropology. Her main research lines are related with digital ethnography, experience, sensoriality, visuality and media. Recently she has explored creativity and participatory practices in digital culture. Her publications in these topics include scientific articles, books and book's chapters around ethnography, visual methodologies, e-research, playful practices and public's media production. Currently, she is coordinator of the Digital Culture Interdisciplinary Research Group Mediaccions, founder member of the Media Anthropology Network of the EASA (European Social Anthropologists Association) and chair of the Section of Digital Culture and Communication ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association).

Israel Márquez - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Barcelona) - Israel Márquez has a Ph.D in Information Sciences (Complutense University of Madrid/Extraordinary Ph.D Award 2012/2013), a Master in Information and Knowledge Society (Open University of Catalonia), and a Degree in Journalism (Complutense University of Madrid). He has been visiting researcher at the School of Literature, Media & Communication (Georgia Institute of Technology) and at the IT University of Copenhagen. He is now a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Open University of Catalonia (Juan de la Cierva Research Grant Program - Spanish Government) and member of the Digital Culture Interdisciplinary Research Group Mediaccions. He has published the book Una genealogía de la pantalla. Del cine al teléfono móvil (A Genealogy of the Screen. From Cinema to Mobile Phone) (Anagrama, 2015).

Débora Lanzeni - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Barcelona) - Social and Cultural Anthropologist (UBA) holds an interdisciplinary Phd. in Information and Knowledge Society (international mention). She is currently a junior researcher at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and member of mediaccions research group. Her training has been in anthropology, filmmaking and incorporates visual and digital anthropology. Her research focuses upon understanding how digital technology and its processes of creation, imagination and production are being made in the context of Urban Labs. She is currently focusing on developments of interface of Smart City and Internet-of-things, the study of materiality, moral orders and future. She has proven experience conducting ethnographic studies in the market and her expertise is working with technology developers and designers.

is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, where she holds a joint appointment between the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and the Department of Education. Since 2000 her research has focused on education, learning and inequalities. Her work has been supported by a range of funders including the British Academy, BECTA, the EC, the Economic and Social Research Council and the NominetTrust. Rebecca is co-editor of Rebecca Eynon - Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (UK) - Rebecca Eynon Learning, Media and Technology. Her recent publications include Teenagers and Technology (Routledge, 2013). Prior to joining Oxford in 2005 Rebecca held positions as an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, City University (2004-2005); as a Research Fellow, Department of Education, University of Birmingham (1999-2000) and as a Researcher and part-time Lecturer, Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester (1997-1999).

Huw Davies - Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (UK) - Huw Davis has a PhD in Web Science and specialises in combining mixed, digital and ethnographic, methods with sociological theory to study digital literacies and practices in relation to social structures and inequality. In practice this means: borrowing methods from computer science; comparing and evaluating digital data with qualitative data; and using Bourdieu, Foucault, and STS theory to interpret the results.

Raine Koskimaa - University Of Jyväskylä (Finland) - PhD Raine Koskimaa, professor of contemporary culture, conducts research in the fields of digital textuality, programmable media, and game studies. He has published widely around the issues of digital literature, game studies, and narratology. He is the co-founder and co-editor of the Cybertext Yearbook ( http://cybertext.hum.jyu.fi), member of the Literary Advisory Board for the Electronic Literature Organization and the Review Board for Gamestudies.

Tero Kerttula - University Of Jyväskylä (Finland) - Tero Kerttula holds an MA degree in Art Education, and he is currently writing his PhD Dissertation Thesis on Young Adults as Game Video Producers and Audience.

Aino Kaisa Koistinen - University Of Jyväskylä (Finland) - Aino Kaisa Koistinen is postgraduate student in The Gender Studies Doctoral Programme (GSDP), University of Helsinki, Finland (2012-2015). Her PhD project discusses gender and humanity in science fiction.

Sara Pereira - Universidade do Minho (Portugal) - Sara Pereira is assistant professor at the Communication Sciences Department at the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal) and researcher at the Society and Communication Research Centre. She holds a PhD in Education Sciences based in a research on television for children presented in 2004. She lectures in the areas of Media Literacy, Reception Studies and Media, Participation and Citizenship. She has been involved in national and European research projects, either as principal investigator or as a team member, on topics of children, young people and media, media literacy and technological policies for education. These are also some of the main topics of her publications in scientific journals and books. Currently she is Director of the Communication and Sciences Department and she also directs the Master's Degree on 'Communication, Citizenship and Education'. Email: sarapereira@ics.uminho.pt

Manuel Pinto - Universidade do Minho (Portugal) - Manuel Pinto is full professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho. His PhD in Communication Sciences was based in research on TV in the daily lives of children, presented in 1996. He lectures in the areas of Media Literacy and Journalism Studies and has been developing research on Media Literacy, Media Sociology and Communication Policy. He has coordinated the Portuguese component of EMEDUS project (European Media Literacy Education Study), funded by the European Commission. He is director of the Ph.D. programme in Communication Sciences and is a board member of the Communication and Society Research Centre. He was elected member of the General Council of the University of Minho and joined the Independent General Council of Radio and Television of Portugal S.A. in 2014. Email: mpinto@ics.uminho.pt

Rosalía Winocur - Universidad de la República (Uruguay) - Rosalía Winocur has a Master in Social Sciences from FLACSO, and a PhD in Anthropological Sciences from Mexico's Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM). She is a Researcher Professor in the UAM's Education and Communication Department, and Visiting Professor in the Communication Faculty in Uruguay's Universidad de la República (UDELAR). She is a member of Mexico's Sistema Nacional de Investigadores ("National Researchers System") and of the Academia Mexicana de las Ciencias ("Mexican Sciences Academy"). In the last five years she has conducted research on digital inclusion public policies and programs in the region, particularly those related to Uno a Uno programs ("One lap, one child"). She is currently coordinating, along with Néstor García Canclini and Eduardo Nivón, the project De la Galaxia de Gutenberg a la Nube de Android. Cambios en los modos de leer en México. ("From Gutemberg Galaxy to Android's Cloud. Transformations in Mexico's modes of reading").

María Gladys Ceretta Soria - Universidad de la República (Uruguay) - María Gladys Ceretta Soria has a PhD in Documentation and a Master in Investigation Research at University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain. She also has a degree in Library Science at Universidad de la República (Uruguay). She is a full-time teacher (Grade 5) and a researcher in the Information Institute of the Information and Communication Faculty at Universidad de la República (Uruguay). Researcher specialized in Information Literacy, Reading and Reading Competencies; evaluation of information resources; scientific production and open access policies. Active Researcher, Level 1, National Researcher System, Uruguay. She belongs to researcher teams in Brazil, Spain and Portugal.

Carlos Barreneche - Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia) - Carlos Barreneche is an Assistant Professor at Universidad Javeriana (Colombia) Communication Department. He received his PhD at CAMRI, University of Westminster (UK) in 2012. He also received degrees in Philosophy and Psychology. His articles have appeared in journals such as Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Computational Culture, and Media, Culture & Society.

Eduardo Gutiérrez - Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia) - Eduardo Gutiérrez has a Masters in Communication from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and a degree in Languages at the National Pedagogical University. Full-time Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Javeriana University. Researcher specialized in communication and education, media and technology use and appropriation in education contexts and history of communication as a social process and as an academic field.

Simona Tirocchi - Università degli Studi di Torino (Italia) - Simona Tirocchi has a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) and a Degree in Communication Sciences (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy). She is assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences of the University of Turin (Italy), where she currently teaches Sociology of education. Researcher specialized in Media education and Media literacy, young people and media, cyberbullying, social representations. She coordinated the Cl@ssi 2.0 project in Piedmont (Italy), whose goal was the integration of digital and web 2.0 technologies in the learning environment. Her recent publications include Sociologie della Media education. Giovani e media al tempo dei nativi digitali (FrancoAngeli, 2013).

Silvia Amici - Ars Media (Italia) - Silvia Amici has a degree in Social Communication at the University of Rosario (Argentina). She specialized in semiotics and cinema at the University of Bologna. Since 1989 she is the head of Ars Media ( www.ars-media.it), a multimedia communication company based in Turin, Italy. She has been the coordinator and director of more than a hundred of titles in the edutainment and communication fields.
She has participated in many European projects in the framework of URBAL, ALFA and MEDIA PROGRAMME. She is co-founder of Eclectica ( www.eclectica.it) and Pari-Go Onlus ( www.pari-go.it). She has been member of the Jury of the international contest eContent and Digital Creativity.

Gabriella Taddeo - Indire (Italia) - Gabriella Taddeo (Ph.D. in Communication Science) is researcher at Indire (National Institute for Documentation, Innovation and Research in the Educational field) and she teaches Social Networking: Technologies and Applications in the Course of Cinema and Media Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino. Her research interests are on the Web 2.0: from media production to the new forms of bottom-up fruition up to the engagement and participatory approach in the learning sphere. She is national coordinator of the European project MENTEP. Mentoring Technology Enhanced Pedagogy ( www.mentep.eun.org), which is aimed to empower the digital competences of teachers through a self-assessment approach.
With the collaboration of:
Sarah Pink - RMIT University (Australia) - Sarah Pink has a PhD in Social Anthropology (University of Kent, UK), MA in Visual Anthropology (University of Manchester, UK) and a 1 st class BA Hons in Social Anthropology (University of Kent, UK). She is the Professor of Design and Media Ethnography at RMIT University (Australia) 20% Professor of Social Sciences at Loughborough University (UK), 10% Professor of Applied Social and Cultural Analysis at Halmstad University (Sweden), Guest Professor the Free University in Berlin (Germany) honorary and adjunct Professor at Griffith and La Trobe Universities respectively in Australia, and a member of the Mediacions research group at the IN3, Barcelona. Her work is usually interdisciplinary and brings ethnographic methodologies to complex scholarly and applied research questions.

Heather Horst - University of Sydney (Australia) - Heather Horst is Professor in the Department of Media in Communications at the University of Sydney. Heather joined the Department in March 2017. Prior to this she was Professor in the School of Media and Communication and the Co-Founder of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT University. She sits on the editorial board for New Media & Society, Mobile Media & Communication, Information Technologies & International Development, Journal of Legal Anthropology and Emerald Studies in Media and Communication. Her current research, supported by an ARC Discovery Grant, two ARC Linkage grants and the Smart Services CRC, explores transformations in the telecommunications industry and the emergence of new mobile media practices such as mobile money and locative media across the Asia-Pacific region.

Cristóbal Cobo Romaní - Plan Ceibal (Uruguay) - Cristóbal Cobo (Phd) is a research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, where he coordinates research on innovation, open knowledge initiatives and future of learning research projects. Currently he works on Internet Science and OportUnidad project (funded by European Commission). Cristobal has been distinguished by the British Council of Economic and Social Research (ESRC) and associate research fellow at the Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance, University of Oxford. He was Professor and director of Communication and New Technologies at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Mexico. He has served as external Evaluator for the Inter-American Development Bank; the National Science Foundation and MIT Press (US), International Labour Organization (UN), and the International Development Research Centre (Canada). Invited Expert for RAND EU in future trends on technology and education commissioned by the Bureau of European Policy Advisors (BEPA). Dr Cobo currently serves on the board of the Global Open Educational Resource (OER) Graduate Network. He has PhD "cum laudem" Communication Sciences at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

luke gaspard - RMIT University (Australia) - luke gaspard is a researcher, teacher, and offering course coordinator in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. His research and teaching interests span television and digital studies with a particular focus on how children and youth incorporate and exploit media in their everyday lives and contexts. He possess a PhD from RMIT University completed in October 2015, a Masters degree from the University of East Anglia, and a BA Hons in Journalism from the University of Eas London. He is also a UK primary school qualified teacher with many years of classroom practice. Typically he works with large data sets (multiples of hundreds) across a range of qualitative tools including creative and productive.

He has published widely on a number of topics relating to digital culture, particularly in the areas of digital photography, digital ethnography and visual methods. His recent publications include the book Edgar Gómez - RMIT University (Australia) - Edgar Gómez Cruz is a Vice-Chancellor Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT University. De la cultura Kodak a la imagen en red. Una etnografía sobre fotografía digital. and the co-edited volumes Digital Photography and Everyday Life. Empirical Studies on Material Visual Practices (Routledge, 2016) with Asko Lehmuskallio and Refiguring Techiques in Visual Digital Research (Palgrave, 2017) with Shanti Sumartojo and Sarah Pink). Gómez Cruz also has several articles in top journals. His current research investigates different manifestations of digital culture in everyday life and digital inequalities, exploring innovative and creative methods, which is funded by a Vice-Chancellor, ECP and FAPESP research grants.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
The following institutions participate in the TRANSMEDIA LITERACY project: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain) (Coordination) Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain) Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (United Kingdom) University of Jyväskylä (Finland) Universidade do Minho (Portugal) Universidad de la República (Uruguay) Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia) Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy) Indire (Italy) Ars Media (Italy) With the...

# data[].attributes.headline
El escenario de la Transmedia, en la Educacion

# data[].attributes.subject
El escenario de la Transmedia, en la Educacion