Social Trends Institute

10/04/2023

Ana Marta González and Inés Olza expand on the purpose of the experts meeting "Accessing the Public Space through Intercultural Mediation: Challenges in a Changing World," and the manner in which each presentation contributed to a comprehensive understanding of the relevant issues.

Intercultural mediation can improve social dynamics outcomes even in situations of conflict.

06/04/2023

The March 2023 gathering of Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67) —the UN’s largest annual gathering on gender equality, the empowerment of all women and girls and their human rights— closed its two-week long session with the acknowledgment of the critical role of technology and innovation in achieving gender equality.

The March 2023 gathering of Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67) —the UN’s largest annual gathering on gender equality, the empowerment of all women and girls and their human rights— closed its two-week long session with the acknowledgment of the critical role of technology and innovation...

05/04/2023

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In a globalized world marked by rapid change, it behoves individuals and societies to embrace diversity as enriching rather than divisive, and to take measures to include all people in the shared goal of human thriving. Efforts to take advantage of plurality of opinion, to support gender equality, t...

30/03/2023

Las asociaciones público-privadas pueden ser una herramienta útil para mantener el ritmo de inversión en proyectos de infraestructura y desarrollo. Además, incorporan el conocimiento técnico y directivo del sector privado a proyectos de interés público.

29/03/2023

“[Entre los hombres] el acceso al mercado laboral es el factor que determina las diferencias en la fecundidad, en lugar del nivel de instrucción, como ocurre entre las mujeres” – Pau Miret

En España cada vez se tienen menos hijos. La fecundidad se ha desplomado hasta posicionarse como una de las más bajas del mundo, y este es un hecho

24/03/2023

“[Stay-at-home] mothers can also define the value of their lives in terms of purposeful domestic work, which never seems to end.” - Jennifer Frey

With All Her Mind, in compiling the hard-won wisdom of women from many different states in and ways of life, encourages its reader to cultivate compassion toward women whose balances of work, family, children, and study look different from her own. The intellectual life need not be a source of compe

23/03/2023

"Converging technologies and the ethical issues that they raise, are linked to structural features of contemporary modern societies and should be addressed as such. Neither science nor technology emerges in a vacuum but is co-produced with the society in which it takes place." - Roger Strand

Results of the XXVIII General Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life

21/03/2023

"Given that city administrations often own large portfolios of buildings, from schools and hospitals to housing units and cultural landmarks, and that we have urban planning competencies, there is much that we can do for ourselves, with our partners, and to encourage a market shift towards greener buildings." - André Sobczak

Buildings account for a large share of EU energy consumption. To reduce energy demand and increase efficiency, cities need dedicated funding and support for local initiatives and households, writes André Sobczak.

20/03/2023

Ya está disponible la traducción al español del libro 'The Political Philosophy of IA', del profesor Mark Coeckelbergh

Ediciones Cátedra, A la luz del creciente desarrollo de las tecnologías y aplicaciones relativas a la inteligencia artificial, problemas acuciantes de nuestra sociedad, tales como el racismo, el cambio climático o la calidad de la democracia, cobran una mayor urgencia y una relevancia renovada

17/03/2023

The Real Problems with the Problem of News Deserts: Toward Rooting Place, Precision, and Positionality in Scholarship on Local News and Democracy

"The concern over the loss of local journalism in the U.S. has become a moral panic." - Nikki Usher

While “news deserts” are rhetorically powerful, we argue the concept is deeply problematic due to its normative presumptions and its descriptive fuzziness. The concern over the loss of local journa...

13/03/2023

Heritable genome editing is gaining support as a morally acceptable practice when it complies with certain caveats. Nevertheless, heritable genome editing under any circumstances may well be in conflict with a progressive and inclusive society in which all persons are considered equal.