Discover: I was on a call with Teresa Murphy-Skorzova, Community Growth Manager for OpenSignal, an app that uses crowd-sourcing to aggregate cell phone signals and WiFi strength data throughout the world.
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Date: Tue, 11/24/2015Multiple organizations sign statement; support calls for open processes at pivotal U.N. meeting [Washington, D.C. and Geneva, Switzerland] – The Internet Society today announced that it has joined more than 200 organizations and individuals who have signed a statement intended for leaders and governments participating in the United Nations General Assembly's 10 Year Review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+10 Review).
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Robin Chase will lay out a near term future where communications and software platforms will deliver us smart cities, smart homes, and ubiquitous clean low cost shared transport.
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Alexandra Ma at HuffPost: “A group of German tech entrepreneurs wants to help refugees in their country by providing them with an enriching way to receive meals and make connections to their new communities.
Five members of Berlin-based startup Memorado created “Refoodgee,” an app that helps pair newly arrived refugees with the city’s locals based on food preferences and shared languages.
Hachem, Sara et al in Research and Technologies for Society and Industry Leveraging a better tomorrow (RTSI): “While the design of smart city ICT systems of today is still largely focused on (and therefore limited to) passive sensing, the emergence of mobile crowd-sensing calls for more active citizen engagement in not only under
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This post is second in a series of four “reports from the field” on #crowdlaw
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Tony Hirst at IODC: “Whilst promoting the publication of open data is a key, indeed necessary, ingredient in driving the global open data agenda, promoting initiatives that support the use of open data is perhaps an even more pressing need….
Vadym Pyrozhenko at Administration & Society: “This article places the Obama administration’s open government initiative within the context of evolution of the U.S. information society. It examines the concept of openness along the three dimensions of Daniel Bell’s social analysis of the postindustrial society: structure, polity, and culture.
Book by Arthur Lupia: “Research polls, media interviews, and everyday conversations reveal an unsettling truth: citizens, while well-meaning and even passionate about current affairs, appear to know very little about politics. Hundreds of surveys document vast numbers of citizens answering even basic questions about government incorrectly. Given this unfortunate state of affairs, it is not surprising that more knowledgeable people often deride the public for its ignorance.
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Date: Tue, 11/24/2015Internet Environment Assessment in the Kyrgyz Republic reveals access outpaces adoption
Joaquim Falcão concedeu entrevista ao jornal O Estado de S.PauloContar a história do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) após a redemocratização (1988-2013) do país a partir da ótica dos próprios ministros. Essa é a proposta do projeto História Oral do STF, desenvolvido pelas Escolas de Direito do Rio de Janeiro (Direito Rio) e de São Paulo (Direito SP) e pela Escola de Ciências Sociais (CPDOC) da FGV. Na última semana foram lançados mais cinco volumes da coleção com depoimentos dos ministros Nelson Jobim, Célio Borja, Eros Grau, Néri da Silveira e Carlos Velloso.
This article was published first by the Internet Policy Review. Once, Mike Savage predicted the downfall of sociology – but now, he revises his pessimism. In 2007, his famous essay... MORE
"Lorca, vida de un socialista ejemplar" del periodista Juan Azócar da a conocer la historia y el legado de este destacado personaje de la política nacional, quien fue detenido en junio de 1975 y desaparecido por la dictadura militar. El lanzamiento de este libro, publicado por ediciones Radio Universidad de Chile, se enmarca en la Cátedra de Derechos Humanos de la Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones.
Pew Research Center: “A year ahead of the presidential election, the American public is deeply cynical about government, politics and the nation’s elected leaders in a way that has become quite familiar.
The inaugural ASEAN Economic Integration Forum jointly organised by the Asian Studies Centre, St. Antony’s College; the World Trade Institute, University of Bern (WTI); and the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (IKMAS) took place on 10 November at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. This initiative, which focused on the state of play of ASEAN Economic Integration, is in line with a growing research interest in ASEAN.
W ostatnich dniach pełno nas było w Polsce i w Europie. Nadal jednak śledziliśmy dla Was najciekawsze artykuły dotyczące prawa autorskiego. W tym tygodniu piszemy m.in. o liście MEN nt. dozwolonego użytku edukacyjnego, kontrowersjach związanych z eksploracją danych, “czarnej dziurze” w dziełach zdigitalizowanych, nowościach w światowym ruchu za rzecz Otwartych Zasobów Edukacyjnych i próbach wydłużenia czasu ochrony majątkowych praw autorskich, zarówno przez podmioty prywatne, jak i kolejne państwa.
O’Leary, Daniel E. at Intelligent Systems, IEEE : “The goals of big data and privacy are fundamentally opposed to each other. Big data and knowledge discovery are aimed reducing information asymmetries between organizations and the data sources, whereas privacy is aimed at maintaining information asymmetries of data sources.
Matthew Woollard at LSE Impact Blog: “…Data made available for reuse, such as those in the UK Data Service collection have huge potential. They can unlock new discoveries in research, provide evidence for policy decisions and help promote core data skills in the next generation of researchers.
