Location

United States

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United States

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Dražen Prelec,H.

Subtitle

Sandra Braman, Abbott Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University

Parent Event

Berkman Klein Luncheon Series

Event Date

Feb
21
2017
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21
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at 12:00 pmBerkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
 

March 4th is Open Data Day! Open Data Day is an annual celebration of open data all over the world. For the fifth time in history, groups from around the world will create local events on the day where they will use open data in their communities. Here is a look at how groups can use the data.world platform to identify data sources and collaborate with open data users.

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Thursday, March 2, 2017 @ The GovLab, 2 Metrotech Center, 9th Floor, Brooklyn 11201
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Is Data the Oil of the 21st Century?
Learning from History: From a Century of Oil to a Century of Data

Global Partners Digital: “Today we’re launching a new series of podcasts – titled In beta – with the aim of critically examining the big questions facing human rights in the digital environment.
The series will be hosted by GPD’s executive director, Charles Bradley, who will interview a different guest – or guests – for each episode.

Jeremy R. Levine in Social Forces: “From town halls to public forums, disadvantaged neighborhoods appear more “participatory” than ever. Yet increased participation has not necessarily resulted in increased influence. This article, drawing on a four-year ethnographic study of redevelopment politics in Boston, presents an explanation for the decoupling of participation from the promise of democratic decision-making.

Jeremy Berg in Science: “In 1854, physician John Snow helped curtail a cholera outbreak in a London neighborhood by mapping cases and identifying a central public water pump as the potential source. This event is considered by many to represent the founding of modern epidemiology. Data and analysis play an increasingly important role in public health today.

Tomas Urbina at Motherboard: “In 2015, after finishing a soccer game in Chile’s capital, Santiago, engineering student Cristián Lara and his friends noticed an older man picking through a dumpster nearby. He was searching for anything that could be recycled, and loading it onto his bike.

Book by Gohar Feroz Khan: “This book provides practical know-how on understanding, implementing, and managing main stream social media tools (e.g., blogs and micro-blogs, social network sites, and content communities) from a public sector perspective. Through social media, government organizations can inform citizens, promote their services, seek public views and feedback, and monitor satisfaction with the services they offer so as to improve their quality.

For the past few years, the USA has been an example of how governments can manage open government initiatives and open data particularly. They have done this by introducing positions like federal chief information officer and chief data officers.

Location

United States

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Location

United States

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Location

United States

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No one wants to live in a “dumb” city.  But I question whether anyone ought to want to live in a really smart city either.  I’d prefer to just live in a smarter city -- one that puts my privacy and security first before rolling out ubiquitous sensors and broad-scale data collection in the name of some larger public good.
Location

United States

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Language
English

Date: Tue, 02/21/2017

• Governments have a key role to play in advancing connectivity in the region
• Multiple opportunities for countries to collaborate in developing Internet infrastructure

Subtitle

Eric Osiakwan, Managing Partner of Chanzo Capital

Teaser

Join Eric Osiakwan, Managing Partner of Chanzo Capital, for a discussion about the KINGS of Africa’s Digital Economy.

Event Date

Feb
20
2017
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20
2017
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NBER Working Paper by Jon Kleinberg, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Jure Leskovec, Jens Ludwig, and Sendhil Mullainatha: “We examine how machine learning can be used to improve and understand human decision-making. In particular, we focus on a decision that has important policy consequences.