Justin Longo, Evan Kuras, Holly Smith, David M. Hondula, and Erik Johnston in Special Issue of Policy & Internet on Data and Policy: “Policy analytics combines new data sources, such as from mobile smartphones, Internet of Everything devices, and electronic payment cards, with new data analytics techniques for informing and directing public policy. However, those who do not own these devices may be rendered digitally invisible if data from their daily actions are not captured.

On the 6th of April, Alina Ostling will be a panellist “in the event “Come imparare ad informarsi”. Hotel Sangallo, 14:30 .
Find out more in the following page.
http://www.festivaldelgiornalismo.com/programme/2017/media-and-information-literacy

Unbubble: “We all live in bubbles – communities of people from similar backgrounds who think similar things.
If we are going to work together, we need to get beyond these bubbles to understand what ALL of our fellow citizens are experiencing and thinking….
Unbubble is a cross-partisan, non-commercial, non-profit, non-ideological project. There is no special interest behind it – other than some private citizens who feel we need to get beyond our bubbles and talk to each other as Americans.

This blog is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2017. On Saturday 4 March, groups from around the world organised over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

This blog is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2017. On Saturday 4 March, groups from around the world organised over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

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Page Type: Eventmercoledi12 aprile 2017
Antonio Aloisi (Università Bocconi di Milano)
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Wed, 12/04/2017 - 18:00 to 20:00luogo: Via Boggio 65/a | Torino (primo piano)

Cerca de 700 personas llegaron al Parque Vicuña Mackenna de Arica para ser parte de la clausura de esta tercera versión de la Escuela de Temporada en regiones. Con el Morro de fondo, autoridades regionales, locales y universitarias compartieron palabras de reconocimiento al trabajo desplegado, y ariqueños y ariqueñas disfrutaron de presentaciones artísticas que sellaron una semana de trabajo en conjunto entre la U. de Chile, la U. de Tarapacá y la Dirección Regional del Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes de Arica y Parinacota.

Una cumbre de música en vivo organizada por la Federación de Estudiantes de la Casa de Bello en las puertas de la FECh, la recolección de dinero, víveres y otros utensilios para cubrir las necesidades de los bomberos y la población civil, la realización de trabajos voluntarios de emergencia, el despliegue de académicos y estudiantes a la zona afectada y la coordinación de miembros de nuestro plantel con el Ministerio de Agricultura con el fin de planificar la recuperación de los suelos, son parte de las iniciativas que los tres estamentos de la comunidad universitaria llevan adelant

Digital Asia Hub and the United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society (UNU-CS) held a new networking initiative. Digital Asia Hub and the United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society co-hosted a series of events aimed at fostering engagement and knowledge sharing at the intersection of technology, society, law, policy and international development.
CIS shared its insights on the Pervasive Technologies project.

Tom Cheshire at SkyNews: “On a beach in Kent, Peter Koehler and Ellie Mackay are teaching a drone how to see.

Rania Fakhoury at the Conversation: “Privacy is no longer a social norm, said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in 2010, as social media took a leap to bring more private information into the public domain.

Evento marca lançamento de projeto sobre Plano Nacional AnticorrupçãoA Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro, em parceria com o governo britânico e o Ministério da Justiça e Segurança Pública, realiza, nos dias 21 e 22 de março, o “Seminário Internacional Brasil – Reino Unido – Combate à Corrupção: Novos Estudos e Tecnologias”. O evento acontecerá no auditório do Ministério da Justiça e Segurança Pública, em Brasília.

This blog is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2017. On Saturday 4 March, groups from around the world organised over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

This blog is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2017. On Saturday 4 March, groups from around the world organised over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

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United States

See map: Google Maps

Location

United States

See map: Google Maps

“Seeing Theory is a project designed and created by Daniel Kunin with support from Brown University’s Royce Fellowship Program. The goal of the project is to make statistics more accessible to a wider range of students through interactive visualizations.

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Tim Hartford: “…In 1995, Robert Proctor, a historian at Stanford University who has studied the tobacco case closely, coined the word “agnotology”. This is the study of how ignorance is deliberately produced; the entire field was started by Proctor’s observation of the tobacco industry. The facts about smoking — indisputable facts, from unquestionable sources — did not carry the day. The indisputable facts were disputed. The unquestionable sources were questioned.