A Research Briefing by Wood, Alexandra and O’Brien, David and Gasser, Urs: “Political leaders and civic advocates are increasingly recommending that open access be the “default state” for much of the information held by government agencies. Over the past several years, they have driven the launch of open data initiatives across hundreds of national, state, and local governments.
Book by Ryan Avent: “None of us has ever lived through a genuine industrial revolution. Until now.
Robert M. Patton, Christopher G. Stahl and Jack C. Wells at DLib Magazine: “Measuring scientific progress remains elusive. There is an intuitive understanding that, in general, science is progressing forward. New ideas and theories are formed, older ideas and theories are confirmed, rejected, or modified. Progress is made. But, questions such as how is it made, by whom, how broadly, or how quickly present significant challenges.
Anna Lauren Hoffmann at O’Reilly: “When I explain the value of ethics to students and professionals alike, I refer it as an “orientation.” As any good designer, scientist, or researcher knows, how you orient yourself toward a problem can have a big impact on the sort of solution you develop—and how you get there.
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The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is excited to announce that it is one of nine winners of the “6th Digital Media and Learning (DML) Competition: Playlists for Learning,” and has received funding to develop four “Digital Citizenship” playlists: My Digital Self, College Career, Advocacy, and Authorship.
The only conference's public Panel Discussion "Who Rules the Internet?" with Kate Crawford, Fieke Jansen and Carolin Gerlitz took place on 6 October 2016, 7 – 9pm Audimax der HU Berlin. Who are the actors both in practices of rule-making and rule-breaking online, what are their motivations and resources, and how can their power relations and communicative figurations be described? How does the Internet influence the proliferation of the values that its platforms, services and infrastructures embody, and what spaces of creative resistance persist?
Since mid September 2017, Marta Portalés Oliva works as guest researcher at the institute for three months. Marta Portalés Oliva is a PhD candidate at the “Gabinete de Comunicación y Educación” Research Group of the Journalism Department at the Communication Sciencies Faculty of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).
Say you want to digitally manipulate a photo to send it in for an online contest, are you violating the original photographer’s copyright, if you don’t ask for permission? In... MORE
Ken Doctor at Politico: “Get ready to hear a lot about the “uberfication” of user-generated content.
Open Knowledge International is a member of Open Data for Development (OD4D), a global network of leaders in the open data community, working together to develop open data solutions around the world. In collaboration with the OD4D program, Open Knowledge International coordinates the Africa Open Data Collaboration Fund which is designed to provide seed support to empower Africa’s emerging open data civic organisations and entrepreneurs.
The Telangana government has over the past year made information technology (“IT”) a major focus area for development. It aims to double IT exports within a period of five years. It has, to this end, created a single-stop online clearance mechanism for companies. Amongst other activities, it has also signed MoUs and letters of understanding […]
La entidad que actualmente cuenta con más de 500 mil dominios inscritos y que se apronta a cumplir 30 años de historia, comenzará un plan piloto para que entidades internacionalmente certificadas puedan comercializar los dominios .CL junto a otros servicios vinculados, como casillas de correos electrónicos y diseño web, mejorando el servicio a los usuarios.
El pasado 14 de septiembre, una delegación de la Academia de Bellas Artes Jan Matejko de Cracovia, encabezada por su prorrector para ciencia y asuntos internacionales, Bogdan Achimescu, visitó la Casa Central de nuestro plantel, donde fue recibida por el Rector (s) Rafael Epstein y otras autoridades universitarias. En la ocasión conversaron sobre la necesidad de generar un acuerdo de colaboración con el objetivo de revitalizar el arte y enriquecer la actividad académica de ambas instituciones.“El desarrollo de las artes es una problemática de carácter nacional.
"Piensa Cobre" es el nombre de este concurso cuya segunda versión fue presentada para promover investigaciones, innovaciones y proyectos relacionados con la industria minera, y contribuir de esta forma con el desarrollo del país. Estudiantes de pre y postgrado están invitados a poner todas sus capacidades y creatividad al servicio de la mayor industria chilena.
Springwise: “It’s unlikely that cars will ever completely disappear, so cities are finding ways to help two wheels and four wheels safely co-exist. In-ground LED lights warn cars when a cyclist is approaching, and this app provides a driver’s safety performance report after each journey.
Dissertation by David Merritt: “Crowdsourcing systems promise to leverage the “wisdom of crowds” to help solve many kinds of problems that are difficult to solve using only computers. Although a crowd of people inherently represents a diversity of skill levels, knowledge, and opinions, crowdsourcing system designers typically view this diversity as noise and effectively cancel it out by aggregating responses.
Book by James Hendler and Alice Mulvehill: “Will your next doctor be a human being—or a machine? Will you have a choice? If you do, what should you know before making it?
Report by Rwitwika Bhattacharya and Mohitkumar Daga: “The importance of data in informing the policy-making process is being increasingly realized across the world. With India facing significant developmental challenges, use of data offers an important opportunity to improve the quality of public services. However, lack of formal structures to internalize a data-informed decision-making process impedes the path to robust policy formation.