Big data analytics, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things—these are just some of the products of research and development that have become regular fixtures of our daily lives. Our private and professional lives ...

This study reflects on the term information society widely used in articles in the area of Information Science, trying to comprehend whether the term is used in a passive or critical way and what impacts this notion brings ...

The Open Data Index for cities was created by FGV DAPP (Department of Public Policy Analysis of FGV) and OKBr (Open Knowledge Brazil) to assess the level of data openness in the local level. The evaluation was conducted ...

What is the role of information in autonomous action in data-driven societies? This question is addressed in the present paper, which aims to discuss the role of information in the dynamics of habits that guide action. A ...

The Ibero Latin American College of Dermatology, CILAD, the largest dermatologic organization in the region, was established in 1948 during the course of the V International Congress of Leprosy held in Havana, Cuba. ...

Participation in democracy, in today's digital and datafied society, requires the development of a series of transversal skills, which should be fostered in higher education (HE) through critically oriented pedagogies that ...

Today we are witnessing an increased use of data visualization in society. Across domains such as work, education and the news, various forms of graphs, charts and maps are used to explain, convince and tell stories. In ...

The growth of Information and CommunicationTechnology has delivered such a vast amount of information that the term ‘information society’ was created to refer to a society characterized, above all, by the global and massive ...