Minouche Shafik at Project Syndicate: “…public confidence in experts is at a crossroads. With news becoming more narrowly targeted to individual interests and preferences, and with people increasingly choosing whom to trust and follow, the traditional channels for sharing expertise are being disrupted. Who needs experts when you have Facebook, Google, Mumsnet, and Twitter?
Alfredo J. Morales, Vaibhav Vavilala, Rosa M. Benito, and Yaneer Bar-Yam in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface: “Social media are transforming global communication and coordination and provide unprecedented opportunities for studying socio-technical domains. Here we study global dynamical patterns of communication on Twitter across many scales. Underlying the observed patterns is both the diurnal rotation of the earth, day and night, and the synchrony required for contingency of actions between individuals.
Panthea Lee at Reboot: “The promise of open government is unlocked when diverse actors work together toward a common vision. It requires engagement by citizens, government, civil society, the private sector, and others with a stake in good governance.
Jo Pedder at the Information Commissioner’s Office Blog: “Today sees the publication of the ICO’s updated paper on big data and data protection.
But why now? What’s changed in the two and a half years since we first visited this topic? Well, quite a lot actually:
Peter Bruce in Scientific America: “…The science of predictive modeling has come a long way since 2004. Statisticians now build “personality” models and tie them into other predictor variables. … One such model bears the acronym “OCEAN,” standing for the personality characteristics (and their opposites) of openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
Eric Afful-Dadzie and Anthony Afful-Dadzie in Government Information Quarterly: “Open Government Data (OGD) continues to receive considerable traction around the world. In particular, there have been a growing number of OGD establishments in the developed world, sparking expectations of similar trends in growing democracies.
Michael Touchton, Natasha Borges Sugiyama and Brian Wampler in the American Political Science Review: “How does democracy work to improve well-being? In this article, we disentangle the component parts of democratic practice—elections, civic participation, expansion of social provisioning, local administrative capacity—to identify their relationship with well-being.
Sarah-Kristin Thiel, Michaela Reisinger, Kathrin Röderer, Peter Fröhlich in the Journal of Democracy and Open Government: “Albeit a wide range of e-participation platforms being already available, the level of public participation remains low. Governments around the world as well as academia are currently exploring new ways to design participation methods that are more engaging to use and will foster participation. One of the strategies is gamification.
Handbook by Albert Y. Zomaya and Sherif Sakr: “…offers comprehensive coverage of recent advancements in Big Data technologies and related paradigms. Chapters are authored by international leading experts in the field, and have been reviewed and revised for maximum reader value. The volume consists of twenty-five chapters organized into four main parts. Part one covers the fundamental concepts of Big Data technologies including data curation mechanisms, data models, storage models, programming models and programming platforms.
Meghna Tare in TriplePundit: “….UNESCO tapped into online crowdsourcing to help achieve Education for All. The project on crowdsourcing girls’ education in Ethiopia and Tanzania launched in July 2011 took a community-based approach to lowering drop-out rates in secondary schools in those countries.
Steven Livingston at Brookings: “Governments hoping to evade responsibility for war crimes and rights abuses are having a much tougher time of it these days.
Blog written by Freyja van den Boom (FutureTDM researcher) and Lieke Ploeger.
Late last month, I posted to SSRN a draft of my forthcoming article, “Notice and Takedown in the Domain Name System: ICANN’s Ambivalent Drift into Online Content Regulation.” The article takes a close look at ICANN’s role in facilitating a new program of extrajudicial notice and takedown in the DNS for domain names associated with accused “pirate sites.” The program is a cooperative, private venture between Donuts, the registry operator for hundreds of new gTLDs in the DNS, and the Motion Picture
"Trump y sus asesores parecen no entender que, de ponerse en práctica políticas proteccionistas y retirarse de acuerdos de libre comercio se perderán muchos trabajos en el propio Estados Unidos", señala Manuel Agosin, decano de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios de nuestro plantel en la siguiente columna de opinión, publicada en el diario La Tercera, donde se refiere a las posibles consecuencias del ascenso de Donald Trump a la Presidencia de Estados Unidos.Donald Trump asumió la Presidencia del país más poderoso del mundo. Vale la pena preguntarse qué pued
Diversas ciudades y regiones de Chile han sido afectadas por sucesivas ondas de calor. Los datos meteorológicos que permiten identificarlas y caracterizarlas son obtenidos de estaciones localizadas en sitios estandarizados que, sin embargo, no corresponden, a las temperaturas que se registran al interior de los barrios y diversos sectores de una ciudad. Hugo Romero, académico del Departamento de Geografía Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, explica las causas y advierte sobre los desafíos en materia de políticas públicas respecto a las variaciones de los climas urbanos.
La equidad, la convivencia, el deporte y la salud fueron algunos de los temas que concentraron la atención del trabajo realizado por la Vicerrectoría de Asuntos Estudiantiles y Comunitarios de nuestra Casa de Estudios, encabezada por el profesor Juan Cortés.
Assista à segunda palestra do segundo dia do II Seminário Governança das Redes e o Marco Civil da Internet: Globalização, tecnologias e conectividade, que ocorreu nos dias 26 e 27 de outubro de 2016 na Faculdade IBMEC em Belo Horizonte.
Painel: Direito, Políticas Púbicas e Inovação
Participantes: André Belfort, Alexandre Veronese, Mariana de Oliveira e Virgínia Kirchmeyer Vieira.
Evento organizado por IRIS, GNet, Direito UFMG, IBMEC e FGV Direito SP.
Two days before the ongoing MAG meeting, the 2017 MAG renewal was announced. The CSCG protested the lack of civil society representatives among the new MAG members. This brought back focus on the need for MAG reform. Our report on multistakeholderism had identified the lack of transparency and geographic diversity in MAG selections. These issues remain […]
This week Frictionless Data will be at Always Already Computational: Library Collections as Data. Sierra Williams looks at the containers for museum and library collections data and why storytelling is important for understanding these collections in the digital age.
This Saturday 4 March marks the 7th International Open Data Day. Groups from around the world are organising events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data. It is a great opportunity to show the benefits of open data and encourage the adoption of open data policies in government, business and civil society. This year the focus is on four key areas: Open research data, Tracking public money flows, Open data for environment and Open data for human rights.