Book edited by Norichika Kanie and Frank Biermann: “In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Sustainable Development Goals built on and broadened the earlier Millennium Development Goals, but they also signaled a larger shift in governance strategies.
Salesforce Research: “To understand how Americans today engage with local and federal government agencies, Salesforce released its “2017 Connected Citizen Report.” The survey was conducted online by Harris Poll on behalf of Salesforce, Dec. 9-13, 2016, among 2,057 adults, ages 18 and older, in the United States.
“OpenAerialMap (OAM) is a set of tools for searching, sharing, and using openly licensed satellite and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery.
Built on top of the Open Imagery Network (OIN), OAM is an open service that provides search and access to this imagery…
Este 21 de marzo se celebra el Día Internacional del Síndrome de Down, fecha cuyo fin es concientizar a la población respecto a la existencia y necesidades de la población que vive con esta alteración genética. En Chile, uno de cada 300 nacidos vivos tiene esta condición, superando la media internacional de uno cada 600 o 700. A pesar de ello, el avance en términos de inclusión educativa y social, según los expertos, es comparativamente más lento que en otras partes del mundo.
Stands, material informativo y experimentos fueron parte de la oferta de la actividad organizada por la Facultad de Ciencias, donde niños del Colegio Lo Boza Dra. Rosalba Lagos Mónaco realizaron pasantías científicas. Con versiones anteriores en la Plaza de Armas y la Plaza de la Constitución, este año replicarán esta experiencia en otras localidades de la Región Metropolitana.La Plaza de Armas de Renca fue el lugar donde este miércoles 15 de marzo la comunidad del Colegio Lo Boza Dra.
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with Professors Michal Gal, University of Haifa, and Niva Elkin-Koren, Visting Professor of Law at HLS
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Hate shopping? The next generation of e-commerce will be conducted by digital agents, based on algorithms that will not only make purchase recommendations, but will also predict what we want, make purchase decisions, negotiate and execute the transaction for the consumers...
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The Aadhaar number has been made compulsory for filing tax return. With both the government and private parties insisting on it for various activities despite the Supreme Court's assertion that is not mandatory, you need to get one at the earliest.
The article by Priya Nair and Sanjay Kumar Singh was published in the Business Standard on March 27, 2017. Udbhav Tiwari was quoted.
Helen Margetts in Nature: “Social networks are not a new phenomenon — people have always associated with like-minded others — but the advent of social media has led to a vast increase in the amount of social information that we see.
Ana Brandusescu and Renée Sieber in Data Driven Journalism: “Crowdsourced data, especially for mapping, is a boon for data driven journalism. In 2015, Nepal’s earthquake was mapped in an astounding 48 hours.
Innar Liiv in The Conversation: “Big Brother does “just want to help” – in Estonia, at least. In this small nation of 1.3 million people, citizens have overcome fears of an Orwellian dystopia with ubiquitous surveillance to become a highly digital society.
Matthew Longshore Smith and Ruhiya Seward in First Monday: “Since the early 2000s, there has been an explosion in the usage of the term open, arguably stemming from the advent of networked technologies — including the Internet and mobile technologies. ‘Openness’ seems to be everywhere, and takes many forms: from open knowledge, open education, open data and open science, to open Internet, open medical records systems and open innovation.
Matthew Zook et al in PLOS Computational Biology: “The use of big data research methods has grown tremendously over the past five years in both academia and industry. As the size and complexity of available datasets has grown, so too have the ethical questions raised by big data research.
Open Knowledge International is a member of OD4D, a global network of leaders in the open data community, working together to develop open data solutions around the world. Here, the Women Environmental Programme (WEP) of Nigeria talks about their work on assessing the state of infrastructural development in three Area Councils of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) of Nigeria.
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What is so special about webseries? And how relevant is this short format? In this article I will provide insights into financing and distribution of german webseries, recent developments of... MORE
This blog is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2017. On Saturday 4 March, groups from around the world organised over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.
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Author(s): Arvind NarayananPublication Date: April 4, 2017Publication Type: Other Writing