Rachel Willcox in Public Finance: “The ability to anticipate demands will improve planning and financial efficiency, and collecting and analysing data will enable the public sector to look ahead…

An analysis of “Participants’ Motives for Participation” by Per Gustafson and Nils Hertting: “Despite the growing body of literature on participatory and collaborative governance, little is known about citizens’ motives for participation in such new governance arrangements. The present article argues that knowledge about these motives is essential for understanding the quality and nature of participatory governance and its potential contribution to the overall political and administrative system.

Adam Mann at PNAS: “Cell phone tower data predicts which parts of London can expect a spike in crime (1).

Come help us build the next generation of tools to collect and understand online media coverage about issues that matter! Our MediaCloud project is hiring a Technical Lead to shape both the concept and contribute to the hands-on development of our existing tools, and new ones. This is an amazing chance to work on software that can directly impact our understanding of public health communication and gender norms online.  Lots of big data, quantitative text analysis, and social good!

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O Centro de Justiça e Sociedade da Escola de Direito da Fundação Getulio Vargas (CJUS FGV DIREITO RIO) torna pública a abertura de Processo de Seleção para projeto de pesquisa “Judiciário e o Sistema Prisional do Brasil”.

GeoNet Project on 28 January 2016 at 15:54PM All are invited to our new ‘big data’ and development seminar series. The schedule for the coming term is, as follows: 26 January 2016: “Big Data, Data Activism, and the Global Civil Society” Speaker: Professor Stefania Milan Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, Univ. of Amsterdam Register interest here! 9 February 2016: “Big [...]

Kannada Wikipedia community is celebrating 13th year of Kannada Wikipedia. As part of the cebrations 4 pre-event theme based editathons are planned. Two editathons were conducted already. The third editathon in the series was held in Mysore from January 11 to 13 at Centre for Proficiency Development and Placement Services (CPDPS), Manasa Gangotri, University of Mysore.

There is a group called Padartha Chintamani (ಪದಾರ್ಥ ಚಿಂತಾಮಣಿ) in Facebook. This group discusses about (Kannada) words, their meanings, their etymology, etc. They also regularly coin new words. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja is one of the active members of the group.
A workshop was held at Indian Institute of World Culture, Bengaluru, organised by this group on January 17, 2016. Dr. Pavanaja was one of the speakers. He gave a demo of Kannada Wiktionary. Download the Invite.

It occupies the 10th place among Indian languages.
The article by Muralidhara Khajane was published in the Hindu on January 19, 2016. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja was quoted.

La iniciativa impulsada por la Universidad de Chile en conjunto con la Universidad de Magallanes y el Consejo Regional de la Cultura busca democratizar el conocimiento y descentralizarlo, llevando a las distintas regiones del país diversos talleres gratuitos y abiertos a todo el público.Con alta cantidad de participantes se desarrolló este miércoles la tercera jornada de la Escuela de Temporada, que este año se desarrolla en la Región de Magallanes.

Las salas Pablo Neruda, Domingo Edwards, Universidad de Chile y la Sala Museo Gabriela Mistral, fueron parte del recorrido que realizaron 25 niños y niñas adolescentes para conocer más de la historia republicana y cultural del país.

La firma de un acuerdo por parte de los Rectores del CUECH y un Convenio Marco que posee cada universidad con el Ministerio de Educación marcan el inicio del trabajo colaborativo entre los planteles del Estado, lo que busca revertir la situación actual y consolidar un estándar de calidad común para todas. "Es un hito en la forma de entender las relaciones entre las universidades", destacó el Rector Vivaldi.

El nuevo director de Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad de Chile, explicó los principales lineamientos que espera impulsar a la cabeza de esta unidad.

"Cada proyecto que comenzamos tiene vocación de impacto; queremos producir cambios con nuestras historias"
Paul Steiger, fundador de ProPublica y exdirector de The Wall Street Journal, imparte una masterclass a los alumnos de la Facultad de Comunicación

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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is pleased to release Amber, a free software tool for WordPress and Drupal that preserves content and prevents broken links. When installed on a blog or website, Amber can take a snapshot of the content of every linked page, ensuring that even if those pages are interfered with or blocked, the original content will be available.

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Tuesday, February 9, 2016, 12:30-2pm @ The GovLab, 2 Metrotech Center, 9th Floor, Brooklyn 11201
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“The Brookings Democracy Dashboard is a collection of data designed to help users evaluate political system and governmental performance in the United States. The Democracy Dashboard displays trends in democracy and governance in seven key areas: Elections administration; democratic participation and voting; public opinion; institutional functioning in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches; and media capacity.

Ministério da Justiça iniciou nesta quarta segunda fase das discussõesA Secretaria de Assuntos Legislativos do Ministério da Justiça (SAL/MJ) lançou, no dia 27 de janeiro, uma nova etapa de consulta à população sobre o texto do decreto que regulamentará o Marco Civil da Internet. As discussões sobre o tema tiveram início em 2009, com a elaboração do anteprojeto de lei, pensado e construído em conjunto pelo Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade (CTS) da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da FGV (Direito Rio) e pelo Ministério da Justiça.

Ever realised that the famous, red hot Naga Mirchi (a special variety of chilli from Nagaland) doesn’t have a Wikipedia page?
The article by S. Anandan was published in the Hindu on January 26, 2016.