Jyoti Choudrie at the Conversation: “…Following the Arab Spring, citizens of the Persian Gulf state of Oman became aware of Twitter’s potential and decided to adopt it as a platform for addressing social problems, rather than instigating revolutions.
Kaushik Basu at Project Syndicate: “… it is important to recognize that data alone are not enough to determine future expectations or policies. While there is certainly value in collecting data (via, for example, randomized control trials), there is also a need for deductive and inductive reasoning, guided by common sense – and not just on the part of experts. By dismissing the views and opinions of ordinary people, economists may miss out on crucial insights.
Paper byAraz Taeihagh in Policy Sciences: “Crowdsourcing is rapidly evolving and applied in situations where ideas, labour, opinion or expertise of large groups of people is used. Crowdsourcing is now used in various policy-making initiatives; however, this use has usually focused on open collaboration platforms and specific stages of the policy process, such as agenda-setting and policy evaluations.
Paper by Carl E Koppeschaar et al in the Special Issue of JMIR Public Health and Surveillance on Participatory Disease Surveillance: “The wide availability of the Internet and the growth of digital communication technologies have become an important tool for epidemiological studies and health surveillance. Influenzanet is a participatory surveillance system monitoring the incidence of influenza-like illness (ILI) in Europe since 2003.
Siobhan Kenna at the Huffpost: “Azraq Refugee Camp is a 15 kilometre-wide sea of corrugated aluminium houses in the heart of the vast Jordanian desert.
Am 24. November verstarb Frau Professor Kahl. Sie war Direktorin des Instituts für Toxikologie an der Medizinischen Fakultät der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Fünfzehn Jahre lang leitete sie, hoch geschätzt als akademische Lehrerin und Wissenschaftlerin, das Institut. Sie konzentrierte ihre Forschung auf den Zusammenhang zwischen Umwelt und Gesundheit des Menschen in einer Zeit, in der diese Verbindung zunehmend an Bedeutung gewann. Ihre Kenntnis stellte sie auch Politik und Öffentlichkeit beratend zur Verfügung.
The Media Cloud project is seeking a contract collections curator to help assess the state of our existing media collections and work towards improving the quality and reach of our data to support data-driven research about the role of online media in civic discourse. The curator will collaborate with the research and technology teams to understand the current coverage and health of the different collections and contribute to their improvement.
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What happens when our criminal justice system uses algorithms to help judges determine bail, sentencing, and parole?
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Cross-posted from Nature (vol 551) Nov 30, 2017
Beth Simone Noveck reviews Geoff Mulgan’s new book, Big Mind: How collective intelligence can change our world
Jaime Gómez Ramírez at Open Mind: “Democracy, the government of the majority typically through elected representatives, is undergoing a major crisis. Human societies have experimented with democracy since at least the fifth century BC in the polis of Athens.
Paper by Martijn de Waal and Marloes Dignum: “Smart city-policy makers and technology vendors are increasingly stating they want to bring about citizen-centered smart cities. Yet, it often remains unclear what exactly that means, and how citizens are envisaged as actors in smart cities. This article wants to contribute to this discussion by exploring the relation between smart cities and citizenship.
CDT Paper by Natasha Duarte, Emma Llanso and Anna Loup: “Governments and companies are turning to automated tools to make sense of what people post on social media, for everything ranging from hate speech detection to law enforcement investigations. Policymakers routinely call for social media companies to identify and take down hate speech, terrorist propaganda, harassment, “fake news” or disinformation, and other forms of problematic speech.
Paper by Robert M. Groves and Adam Neufeld: “The public pays for and provides an incredible amount of data to governments and companies. Yet much of the value of this data is being wasted, remaining in silos rather than being shared to enhance the common good—whether it’s helping governments to stop opioid addiction or helping companies predict and meet the demand for electric or autonomous vehicles.
Christopher Ingraham at the Washington Post: “A team of computer scientists has derived accurate, neighborhood-level estimates of the racial, economic and political characteristics of 200 U.S. cities using an unlikely data source — Google Street View images of people’s cars.
In einer Sonderausgabe der ITM-Podcast-Reihen informiert Toshihiro Wada, aktuell Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft am ITM, über die Grundzüge des japanischen Datenschutzgesetzes Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI). Dabei geht er auf die Grundaussagen des Gesetzes, die Neuerungen der Reform aus dem Jahr 2015 sowie die Möglichkeiten einer (rechtskonformen) grenzüberschreitenden Datenübermittlung ein.
Nach der erfolgreichen Premiere im vergangenen Jahr, erwartet Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter, Patientinnen und Patienten sowie alle Besucher auch in diesem Advent ein erweitertes Essens- und Getränkeangebot mit süßen Schmankerln, Flammkuchen sowie Kalt- und Warmgetränken auf dem UKD-Weihnachtsmarkt. Unterstützt werden die Buden vom UKD-Foodtruck, der weihnachtliche Burger und Spezialitäten präsentiert.In einer weiteren Bude bietet die "Wir-Gefühl-Gruppe" aus der Pflege einen Flohmarkt für den guten Zweck.
CMPF researcher, Mario Viola De Azevedo Cunha will be speaking about the 2016 Media Pluralism Monitor at the conference, The role and functions of contemporary journalism, December 5-6 in Poznan, Poland.
Bart Grugeon Plana: After the breakthrough of the internet, Yochai Benkler, a law professor at Harvard University, quickly understood that new online forms of collaboration such as Wikipedia or Linux responded to a completely new economic logic. Specializing in the digital culture of the networked society, Benkler worked on a coherent economic vision that guides us beyond the old opposition between state and markets.
Por primera vez en el marco de las celebraciones de aniversario de la Casa de Bello, se realizó un encuentro en el cual se premiaron los proyectos ganadores del Fondo Valentín Letelier 2017 y con ello, se destacó el rol de la extensión como una de las tareas fundamentales del quehacer universitario.