Springwise: “With food waste a substantial contributor to both environmental and social problems, communities around the world are trying to find ways to make better use of leftovers as well as reduce the overall production of unused foodstuffs. One of the biggest challenges in getting leftovers to the people who need them is the logistics of finding and connecting the relevant groups and transporting the food.
This blog originally appeared on RegardsCitoyens.org and has been translated by Pierre Chrzanowski and Samuel Goëta (Open Knowledge France).
We are born in an age in which most of the major human rights treaties (there are nine “core” treaties) have been ratified by the vast majority of countries. Yet it seems that the human rights agenda has fallen on hard times. Women lack equality, political freedom is getting curtailed, child labour and forced slavery is rampant in much of the world. Socio economic inclusion of persons with disabilities in society is still a distant dream. Further, the heavy weight champions of human rights i.e.
When I started working in internet development I saw it as a great tool of liberation for the global South. 18 years down the road I see it as a great facilitator of absolute control. It is not now but may become a threat to human civilization in coming years.
Video on “The Actionable Intelligence (AI) model is a new approach to policy development. The AI approach is supported by Integrated Data Systems (IDS) which link administrative records from multiple agencies to give a broader view of social problems and policy solutions. The use of linked administrative data allows policy analysts, program evaluators and social innovators to test new social program ideas at a much lower cost and higher speed.
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featuring General Counsel of Hyperloop One, Marvin Ammori
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The future of transportation may include Google's autonomous vehicles, Uber's flying cars, and Amazon's delivery drones--all bound together by a high-speed hyperloop backbone. You may not be able to take a hyperloop flight until at least 2020, but lawyers and governments are already working out the new legal framework necessary for a high-speed, safe, sustainable new network. Join the general counsel of Hyperloop One to learn more...
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"Indians in general have yet to understand the meaning and essence of privacy," says Member of Parliament, Tathagata Satpathy.
The blog post was published by Mashable India on February 14, 2017. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
Louise Crabtree in The Conversation: “…big data… is an inconceivably vast mass of information, which at first glance would seem a giant mess; just white noise.
Unless you know how to decipher it.
Adam Azzoug and Sakdirat Kaewunruen in Frontiers in Built Environment: “Among the many million train journeys taking place every day, not all of them are being measured or monitored for ride comfort. Improving ride comfort is important for railway companies to attract more passengers to their train services.
Interview in Metode with Londa Schiebinger, director of Gendered Innovations: “We were interested, because the methods of sex and gender analysis are not in the university curriculum, yet it is very important. The first thing our group did was to develop those methods and we present twelve methods on the website.
