Dan Chenok and Alan Howze at the IBM Center for The Business of Government: “The IBM Center for The Business of Government and the Partnership for Public Service recently co-hosted a Roundtable to discuss how agency leaders can continue to bring innovation into government, in a way that integrates with agency activities to dri
Starting last Monday, school life for students in 150 primary schools in Kenya is supposed to change significantly. They will be part of the first 12 week roll-out phase of the Digital... MORE
Melody Barnes & Paul Schmitz at Stanford Social Innovation Review: “…Data-driven and evidence-based practices present new opportunities for public and social sector leaders to increase impact while reducing inefficiency. But in adopting such approaches, leaders must avoid the temptation to act in a top-down manner.
Google’s Official Blog: “The recent Zika virus outbreak has caused concern around the world. We’ve seen more than a 3,000 percent increase in global search interest since November, and last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a Public Health Emergency.
The Centre for Public Impact: “Traditional approaches to policymaking have left policymakers and citizens looking for alternative solutions. Despite the best of intentions, the standard model of dispassionate expert analysis and subsequent implementation by a professional bureaucracy has, generally, led to siloed solutions and outcomes for citizens that fall short of what might be possible.
La comunicación "Surviving suicide" y el vídeo "Diagrama habitable de la familia", ganadores de FORUN 2016
"La huella de la familia" ha sido el tema central del congreso en el que han participado 450 personas entre profesores y alumnos
Los ganadores del congreso junto al vicerrector de alumnos, Tomás Gómez-Acebo
FOTO: Manuel Castells
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Big Data and Human Development on 7 March 2016 at 11:34AM The narrative of misleading development statistics has been iterated in recent years. Morton Jerven’s well-known text, How We are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It, challenges the reliability of development statistics and calls for new approaches to data collection. More recently, Michael Robbins and Noble Kuriakose [...]
Tijdschrift Boekman nummer 106 is gewijd aan de nieuwe kunstkritiek en kwam tot stand in samenwerking met Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur, PublishingLab en Domein voor Kunstkritiek.
INC-medewerkers Miriam Rasch, Leonieke van Dipten en Sonja van der Valk leverden een bijdrage aan het nummer.
Policy and Internet Blog on 7 March 2016 at 09:49AM Online support groups are being used increasingly by individuals who suffer from a wide range of medical conditions. OII DPhil Student Ulrike Deetjen‘s recent article with John Powell, Informational and emotional elements in online support groups: a Bayesian approach to large-scale content analysis uses machine learning to examine the role [...]
The Spanish Supreme Court (TS) has recently ruled on the legality of using someone else’s trademark as a keyword to trigger sponsored ads in Google Adwords. The case is Maherlo v Charlet (pdf, in Spanish).
«Em breve, na 2.ª edição da «Cyberlaw by CIJIC» será disponibilizado um artigo em inglês sobre este pertinente tema».
A inovadora característica global da Internet oferece-nos desafios judiciais igualmente globais. Com efeito, em respeito às atividades online, diversas jurisdições podem ser acionadas, e a discussão concentra-se em como os países podem exercer sua autoridade judicial neste espaço internacional. De facto, percebe-se o paradigma complexo e dinâmico deste novo segmento elevado pela Internet, com características naturalmente internacionais.
Much consideration has been given to the role of tools in recruitment to extremist violence, the desirability of restricting the use of tools for those purposes, the collateral effects of such restrictions, and the opportunity to use tools for alternative narratives.
Following up on our discussion in class on Tactical Media approaches, and especially after the Headline Remixing exercise using http://newsjack.in/, I remembered an article I wrote around two years ago for the English version of the Lebanese newspaper, Al-Akhbar. At the time, I was a weekly contributor for Al-Akhbar in a column titled “The Farewell Chronicles” aimed at linking political, social and cultural issues in a light, narrative format.
About HeroX, “The World’s Problem Solver Community”: “On October 21, 2004, Scaled Composites’ SpaceShipOne reached the edge of space, an altitude of 100km, becoming the first privately built spacecraft to perform this feat, twice within two weeks.
In so doing, they won the $10 million Ansari XPRIZE, ushering in a new era of commercial space exploration and applications.
We Hate This Hate Story Too! By Aarushi Mahajan and Shweta Kabra Here is a line from the movie to give you a trailer of what lies ahead: “Tum toh pehle bhi bikao thi, ab tumhari keemat badal gayi hai” (You’re an item whose value in the market has changed). In a story about rich, […]
Book edited by Jarman, Holly and Luna-Reyes, Luis F: “This book investigates the ways in which these systems can promote public value by encouraging the disclosure and reuse of privately-held data in ways that support collective values such as environmental sustainability.
Gabriel Puron-Cid et al in the International Journal on Public Administration in the Digital Age: “Contemporary societies face complex problems that challenge the sustainability of their social and economic systems. Such problems may require joint efforts from the public and private sectors as well as from the society at large in order to find innovative solutions.
Marcia McNutt in Science: “In the midst of steady progress in policies for data sharing, a recent editorial expressed a contrarian view.* The authors described the concern of some scientists about the rise of an underclass of “research parasites” who exploit data sets that are collected and curated by others.
