Data for Black Lives (D4BL)  is "a group of activists, organizers, and mathematicians committed to the mission of using data science to create concrete and measurable change in the lives of Black people." This is a liveblog from the opening panel for the D4BL 2017 Inaugural Conference. Liveblogging contributed by Rahul Bhargava and Catherine D'Ignazio. They apologize for any errors or omissions.
Yeshimabeit opens with a reminder that data and technologies have far too often been weaponized against black communities.
Panelists:

Kevin Stark: The word Decidim translated from Catalan means we decide, and it’s the name of Barcelona’s digital infrastructure for participatory democracy. One part functional database and one part political statement, organizers say Decidim is key to a broad digital transformation that is taking place in Barcelona — its institutions, markets, and economy.

Helen Margetts in OpenDemocracy: “In the course of the World Forum for Democracy 2017, and in political commentary more generally, social media are blamed for almost everything that is wrong with democracy. They are held responsible for pollution of the democratic environment through fake news, junk science, computational propaganda and aggressive micro-targeting.

Making All Voices Count: “Maputo has a population of over 1.1 million people, with 54 per cent living below the poverty line and 70 per cent living in informal settlements. The majority of the city’s roads are unpaved and flood control is limited, particularly in informal settlements in peri-urban areas. During the rainy season, streets flood and gutters quickly fill with debris and garbage, blocking the drainage of rainwater.

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Die Westdeutsche Kieferklinik ist als eine Keimzelle der heutigen Düsseldorfer Universitätsmedizin ein historisches Beispiel dafür, wie durch ein schreckliches Ereignis, den 1. Weltkrieg mit vielen traumatisierten und gesichtsverletzten Frontkämpfern, die Entwicklung einer ganzen medizinischen Disziplin – der Mund-Kiefer und Gesichtschirurgie – angestoßen wurde, die später ihre segensreiche Wirkung entfalten konnte. Aus dem allerersten Lazarett des Düsseldorfer Zahnarztes Christian Bruhn entwickelte sich schließlich die Westdeutsche Kieferklinik bzw.

Am 17. November haben Vertreter aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft, Politik und Kultur der Region den Gründungsbeschluss des Vereins zur Förderung der Wissensregion e.V. im Haus der Universität unterschrieben. Anja Steinbeck (Rektorin der Heinrich-Heine-Universität) wurde zur Vereinsvorsitzenden, Brigitte Grass (Präsidentin der Hochschule Düsseldorf) zu ihrer Stellvertreterin gewählt. Der Politikwissenschaftler Ulrich von Alemann wurde mit der Geschäftsführung betraut.

Der Freundeskreis hat mit seinen 25 Stiftungen, die er inzwischen betreut, im Jahr 2016 die Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (HHU) mit ca. 1,8 Millionen Euro gefördert. Dies war nur durch eine noch relativ günstige Rendite aus dem Kapital von 3 % und großzügigen Spenden für den Studiengang European Studies möglich.
Hervorzuheben ist, dass trotz Erhöhung des Kapitals des Freundeskreises und seiner Stiftungen die Verwaltungskosten stabil gehalten werden konnten.

[…] if we aim to change the energetic metabolism of modern industrial societies, for example, we should be aware of the scope of the project. It will not just be a technological task: it will in the end imply profound socio- economic, historical change […] you cannot profoundly alter a system’s output (i.e. its waste and emissions) without changing also its inputs and the ways it works internally […] to be able to deal with industrial metabolism, social and natural sciences must co-operate intimately.
Fischer-Kowalski (2003: 44–45)

The following paper was submitted for a parallel event at the 17th Congress of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), held in Portugal from 25-27 September 2017. Written by Victoria Gater and Sonja Scherndl.

La selecciones de estas disciplinas de la Casa de Bello triunfaron en el certamen que se desarrolló en la ciudad de Talca, y que contó con la participación de 28 instituciones de Educación Superior de todo el país. El pasado 30 y 31 de octubre se realizaron las Ligas Deportivas de Educación Superior (LDES) en la pista atlética del Estadio Fiscal de Talca.

La directora del Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación y Profesora Titular del Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, se suma al equipo directivo de esta institución encargada de promover el desarrollo científico y tecnológico en nuestro país, que actualmente preside otro profesor de la Universidad de Chile, el Premio Nacional de Ciencias Exactas Mario Hamuy.

El próximo miércoles 15 de noviembre se realizará en Casa Central la feria "Futuros Científicos para Chile", iniciativa en la que se presentarán 14 propuestas de investigación científica, realizadas en el marco del proyecto de Laboratorios Portátiles que lidera nuestro plantel.

El experimento, realizado con un grupo de universitarios, encontró que éstos recordaban más las imágenes fijas que las en movimiento. La explicación está en la teoría de la carga cognitiva, que plantea que nuestra memoria de trabajo, aquella con la que procesamos la información, tiene una capacidad limitada.Vivimos en un ambiente donde lo visual se impone cada vez más. Por eso, los videos, animaciones y otras imágenes en movimiento son cada vez más usados como herramientas educativas.

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New book by Stefaan Verhulst and Andrew Young: “Recent years have witnessed considerable speculation about the potential of open data to bring about wide-scale transformation. The bulk of existing evidence about the impact of open data, however, focuses on high-income countries.

Rachel Thomas in Fast.AI on “What is the ethical responsibility of data scientists?”…What we’re talking about is a cataclysmic change… What we’re talking about is a major foreign power with sophistication and ability to involve themselves in a presidential election and sow conflict and discontent all over this country… You bear this responsibility. You’ve created these platforms.

Report by Agnes Czibik, Mihaly Fazekas, Monika Bauhr and  Jenny de Fine Licht for Digiwhist: “Transparency is widely promoted as an essential condition for good governance, and as an effective tool against public sector corruption more specifically. Although the empirical evidence on the impact of transparency on corruption is growing, empirical evidence remains mixed.

Chapter by Stefania Milan and Miren Gutierrez in the book on Networks, Movements and Technopolitics in Latin America: ‘Big data’ offer novel opportunities for civic engagement and foster the emergence of data activism, a form of technopolitics from the ground–up that assumes people’s active engagement with data for empowerment.

This blogpost was jointly written by Aleksi Knuutila and Georgia Panagiotidou. Their bio’s can be found at the bottom of the page.