Happy New Year!
2018 offers exciting promise and opportunity for the Internet Society and the work of our global community for a better Internet. We’ll continue the positive momentum we started in 2017, when we celebrated our 25 year milestone and strengthened our impact around the globe.
Thank you to all who joined us on this amazing journey. Take a look back at many of last year’s highlights.
Technical report by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission: “… synthesises the results of our work on using new data sources for policy-making. It reflects a recent shift from more general considerations in the area of Big Data to a more dedicated investigation of Citizen Science, and it summarizes the state of play. With this contribution, we start promoting Citizen Science as an integral component of public participation in policy in Europe.
Skip Descant at GovTech: “Worried about the possibility of flooding near your home in Iowa? Soon, you can just ask Alexa.
Virpi Oksman and Minna Kulju in the International Journal of Services Technology and Management: “This article examines the challenge of involving various stakeholders in urban planning through user-driven innovation and collaborative design and leveraging these processes to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.
La actividad, que convocó a autoridades, monitores, académicos y funcionarios, tuvo por objetivo entregar toda la información sobre el Proceso de Admisión 2018 a los postulantes y sus familias, que llegaron en masa al evento durante sus cuatro jornadas, marcadas además por una nutrida agenda de actividades como charlas temáticas y visitas guiadas a los diferentes Campus de la casa de estudios.Con una gran convocatoria y un exitoso desarrollo culminó este viernes la Semana del Postulante, realizada este año en la Facultad de Economía y Negocios, a la cual as
Arte, música, política, diversidad sexual, género, cuidado animal, son algunas de las áreas que distinguen la variedad de organismos estudiantiles halladas durante la realización del estudio "Participación y Organización Estudiantil en la Universidad de Chile", elaborado por la Vicerrectoría de Asuntos Académicos a través de la Unidad de Autoevaluación, Acreditación y Calidad y la Vicerrectoría de Asuntos Estudiantiles y Comunitarios, en el marco de las actividades encomendadas para el Proceso de Acreditación.
En un encuentro en Casa Central, se homenajeó a los estudiantes que ejecutaron proyectos del Fondo de Desarrollo Institucional en su línea de emprendimiento estudiantil, y del Premio azul, durante este 2017. La ceremonia, encabezada por el vicerrector Juan Cortés, contó con la participación de autoridades del Ministerio de Educación y del Instituto Nacional de la Juventud, instancia donde también participaron representantes de todas las iniciativas que se ejecutarán el 2018.
Das Institut für Romanistik veranstaltet am 12. Januar den Workshop "El lenguaje multimodal del Tango". Er bietet den Teilnehmenden neben Vorträgen zum Kulturphänomen Tango vom Tanzsoziologen, Tänzer und Tanzlehrer Christophe Apprill (Marseille), von Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rolf Kailuweit (Universität Düsseldorf) und Jost Budde (Tanzhaus NRW) die Gelegenheit, praktische Erfahrungen mit dem Tango zu machen.
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This blog has been cross-posted from the OK Nepal blog as part of our blog series of Open Knowledge Network updates.
Best wishes for 2018 from OK Nepal to all of the Open Knowledge family and friends!!
Marcos García: Through its workshops, collaborative teams, classes and public events, Medialab has enabled the development of open design hives for urban beekeeping,1 sponsored collaborative translations of books,2 and assisted development of experimental video games.3 It has invited anyone who is interested to help develop a new data visualization for air quality in Madrid4 and a new citizen network of sensors to collect the data.5 It has hosted research teams that have produced a new typography font6 and designs for a massive LED screen as a vehicle for urban art and com
Our colleague Sharon Ede hipped us to this beautiful project. The following is reposted from northcottinnovation.com.au:
Science Trends: “Located at the complex intersection of economic development and environmental change, cities play a central role in our efforts to move towards sustainability. Reducing air and water pollution, improving energy efficiency while securing energy supply, and minimizing vulnerabilities to disruptions and disturbances are interconnected and pose a formidable challenge, with their dynamic interactions changing in highly complex and unpredictable manners….
Essay by Sean Martin McDonald, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, & Katja Lindskov Jacobsen in the Stanford Social Innovation Review: “Humanitarian organizations have an almost impossible task: They must balance the imperative to save lives with the commitment to do no harm.
Study by L’Aterlier BNP Paribas: “In the US, only 57% of the total voting population voted during the last American presidential elections. Nowadays, 1.57 million civic organizations encourage the American people to express their concerns to the government and public authorities outside of ballot boxes. The internet has indeed created other ways to mobilize people.
Sharon Fisher at HPE: “The notion of “open government” appeals to both citizens and IT professionals seeking access to freely available government data. But is there such a thing as data access being too open? Governments may want to be transparent, yet they need to avoid releasing personally identifiable information.
O professor da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro (FGV Direito Rio), Evandro Menezes de Carvalho, foi premiado pela China Radio International (CRI) na categoria artigo de opinião do prêmio anual de Jornalismo. A análise "As Duas Sessões e a promoção do Estado de Direito na China" foi considerada a terceira melhor do ano pela emissora de radiodifusão internacional chinesa, vinculada ao governo.
Pricing Review Shows They Provide Least-Expensive Local "Broadband"
Teaser
Our examination of advertised prices shows that community-owned fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks in the United States generally charge less for entry-level broadband service than do competing private providers, and don’t use initial low “teaser” rates that sharply rise months later.
Publication Date
10 Jan 2018
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Anjana Ahuja in the Financial Times: “Population counts are important tools for development, but also politically fraught…The UN describes a census as “among the most complex and massive peacetime exercises a nation undertakes”. Given that social trends, migration patterns and inequalities can be determined from questions that range from health to wealth, housing and even religious beliefs, censuses can also be controversial. So it is with the next one in the US, due to be conducted in 2020.