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Paper by Julie Simon, Theo Bass, Victoria Boelman and Geoff Mulgan: “… shares lessons from Nesta’s research into some of the pioneering innovations in digital democracy which are taking place across Europe and beyond.
Key findings

Alice Charles: “…The World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Cities chronicled a list of Top 10 Urban Innovations from around the world, that are providing best practice examples of how cities are creating innovative solutions to a variety of urban problems.

Top 10 Urban Innovations

Leo Kelion at BBC News: “Facebook has begun using artificial intelligence to identify members that may be at risk of killing themselves.
The social network has developed algorithms that spot warning signs in users’ posts and the comments their friends leave in response.
After confirmation by Facebook’s human review team, the company contacts those thought to be at risk of self-harm to suggest ways they can seek help.
A suicide helpline chief said the move was “not just helpful but critical”.

Post by Graeme Stuart: “The Spectrum of Public Participation was developed by the International Association of Public Participation (IAP2) to help clarify the role of the public (or community) in planning and decision-making, and how much influence the community has over planning or decision-making process

Simons Foundation: “Ever wish there was a quick, easy way to connect your research to the public?

Emily Matchar in Smithsonian: “In many ways, the ocean is the Wild West. The distances are vast, the law enforcement agents few and far between, and the legal jurisdiction often unclear. In this environment, illegal activity flourishes.

(Open Access) book edited by Mirko Tobias Schäfer & Karin van Es: “As more and more aspects of everyday life are turned into machine-readable data, researchers are provided with rich resources for researching society. The novel methods and innovative tools to work with this data not only require new knowledge and skills, but also raise issues concerning the practices of investigation and publication.

The Keio International Center for the Internet & Society is pleased to present the following invitation from Sasakawa USA and the Keio University Cyber Security Research Center. Please refer to the invitation details for venue and program information.
Event Registration & Homepage are here.
Cyber Security Conference March 2-3 at Keio University, Tokyo

この度、インターネツト　ガバナンス　フォーラム　ジャパン(IGF-JAPAN）より、 2017 IGF-Japanのご案内をいただきましたのでお知らせ致します。 開催地、報告会の内容につきましては、以下をご参照ください。
The Keio International Center for the Internet & Society is pleased to present the following invitation from the Internet Governance Forum – Japan. Please refer to the invitation details for venue and program information. Please note that the program and invitation will be in Japanese.

Opening Keynote Address | Session One | Luncheon Address | Session Two | Session Three | Key Takeaways

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Today, Open Knowledge International is launching the Frictionless Data Tool Fund, a minigrant scheme offering grants of $5,000 to help extend the implementation of software libraries — code that is used to develop software programs and applications—  for the Frictionless Data specifications by developing them in a range of programming languages.

Las competencias se realizarán hasta el viernes 20 de enero en las disciplinas de ajedrez, básquetbol, baby fútbol, voleibol, entre otros, en el Campus Deportivo Juan Gómez Millas y en la Facultad de Economía y Negocios. Este miércoles 18 de enero se iniciaron los 1° Juegos Deportivos de Verano Fenafuch 2017, competencia deportiva destinada a los funcionarios y funcionarias de nuestra Casa de Estudios.

Springwise: “Berlin-based Kiron works with refugee students to put together an online course of study, rigorous enough to provide entry into a partner university’s second year of study. Using Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Kiron helps students master their new country’s language while studying basic prerequisites for a chosen university degree. Already working with more than 1,500 students in Germany, Kiron recently expanded into France.

Paper by Igor Calzada: “This paper explores the substantial effect that the critical understanding and techno-political consideration of data are having in some smart city strategies. Particularly, the paper presents some results of a comparative study of four cases of smart city transitions: Glasgow, Bristol, Barcelona, and Bilbao.

Geoff Mulgan at Nesta: “In the heady days of 1989, with communism collapsing and the Cold War seemingly over, the political theorist Francis Fukuyama declared that we were witnessing the “end of history” which had culminated in the triumph of liberal democracy and the free market.

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, Simeon Oriko talks about his work carrying out an embedded data fellowship with Oxfam in Kenya as part of the Open Data for Development (OD4D) programme. 

In their first blogpost the authors argued for the conduction of more replication studies that e.g. use the same data. In this entry they look at how reputation and replication are entangled.... MORE

Now Available: Handbook on the Economics of the Internet