Findings from the Africa Open Data Index and Africa Data Revolution Report
Today, we are pleased to announce the results of Open Knowledge International’s Africa Open Data Index. This regional version of our Global Open Data Index collected baseline data on open data publication in 30 African countries to provide input for the second Africa Data Revolution Report.
This blog was jointly written by Dikpal Khatri Chhetry and Dipti Gautam of Open Knowledge Nepal and has been reposted from the Open Knowledge Nepal blog
Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler der HHU beteiligten sich bislang sehr erfolgreich an dem Programm. Nach fünf Auszeichnungen im Jahr 2016 und zwei Auszeichnungen in 2017 erhielten im Dezember 2018 Dr. Witold Mucha und Dr. Julia Trinkert aus der Philosophischen Fakultät sowie PD Dr. Klaus Schaper aus der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät je ein Fellowship.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to change the way value is created and captured across all industries. For Germany, to fully tap into this potential, it is essential to understand which types of AI are produced in Germany and how they contribute to value creation.. The production process of AI is not magic, but…
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Reinventing our cities and re-enchanting the world. Who gets a say in designing where they live? What if more of us did? This week, we visit Mary Miss, a Guggenheim fellow and celebrated artist, whose organization, The City as Living Laboratory, strives to empower people to create not the cliché of the sustainable city, she says, but places of living and breathing, creative sustenance. Then we speak to scholars Silvia Federici and Peter Linebaugh about the promises of “commoning” for our environment – and our social health.
Landwehr, 1968 in Heilbronn geboren, studierte nach dem Abitur von 1990 bis 1995 Geschichte, Germanistik und Rechtswissenschaft in Augsburg, Freiburg, Basel und Dublin. 1999 wurde er in Freiburg mit einer Arbeit über die Implementation frühneuzeitlicher Policeyordnungen promoviert. 2003 wechselte er als Juniorprofessor für Europastudien an die Heinrich-Heine-Universität. Nach der Habilitation 2005 wurde Landwehr 2008 auf die Professur für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit am Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften berufen.
Originally posted on Medium on 21st January 2019.
I frequently encounter a notion, among those drawn to cooperatives, that a cooperative should be an amorphous, faceless collective in which old-world skills and norms of leadership can be discarded. How does this work out for them? Not well.
Originally posted on LabGov.City on 21st February 2019, written by Monica Bernardi, The Urban Media Lab
Internetabhängigkeit kann eine Verhaltenssucht darstellen. Ab wann sprechen wir von einem Missbrauch im Sinne einer psychischen Störung? Wie können wir diese möglichst frühzeitig erkennen? Welche Behandlungsansätze kann die Psychotherapie als Hilfestellung für Betroffene anbieten?.
Taxing the Internet: A social media tax in Uganda has prompted many users to quit those same sites, The Guardian reports. The tax, intended to raise government revenues and discourage “idle talk,” amounts to 200 Ugandan shillings, or about U.S. 5 cents, per day. More than one million people have quit taxed mobile apps, the story says.
On Monday 4th March 2019, Catherine Stihler, the new chief executive of Open Knowledge International, will deliver a keynote speech – Fighting for a more open world – at the Open Belgium 2019 conference in Brussels. Read the speech below and visit the Open Belgium website or follow the hashtag to learn more about the event.
This post by Marco Quaglia is cross-posted from Shareable
Digital connectivity plays an anchor role in unlocking innovation and prosperity around the world, but increasing cyber threat is a roadblock to collective path of progress.
The article by Dr. R. Seetharaman was published in the Gulf Times on February 24, 2019.
World Kashmir Awareness (WKA) Board in its meeting on February 23, 2019 regrets the death of 45 Indian soldiers recently killed at Pulwama, Kashmir.
The blog post was published in Kashmir Watch on February 25, 2019. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.
Gurshabad Grover participated in the fifteenth meeting of the Information Systems Security and Biometrics Sectional Committee (LITD 17) of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), which was conducted online on February 26.
Some of the things we discussed included:
More than 30 organisations and industry bodies, including Ficci, CII and the Cellular Operators Association of India, have written to the Electronics and IT Ministry (MeitY), urging it not to ban online content related to the Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS).
The article by Press Trust of India was carried in the Times of India on February 28, 2019.
Across the Planet Young People are Mobilizing
“I want you to act. I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is.” 16 year – old Greta Thunberg at Davos – January 2019
Towards a Co-operative CommonWealth: Transition in a Perilous Century
Yesterday, February 28, 2019, dozens of civic leaders, civil servants, and students gathered at New York University’s new building in downtown Madrid to hear leaders from Spain’s largest municipalities discuss the social and equitable challenges created by the housing market pressures in their respective cities.
Você já deve ter brincado de lego alguma vez na vida. Já pensou em como cada bloco tem versatilidade para integrar diferentes estruturas? É assim que dados abertos funcionam – mas em vez de brinquedos, com eles se constroem retratos da realidade. Nesse post especial do Open Data Day, data que ocorre há 9 anos e celebra iniciativas ao redor do mundo, vamos falar sobre como dados abertos podem ajudar a construir democracia.
A diferença entre dado e informação