Joseph D Tucker at the Journal of  Medical Internet Research: “Crowdsourcing contests (also called innovation challenges, innovation contests, and inducement prize contests) can be used to solicit multisectoral feedback on health programs and design public health campaigns. They consist of organizing a steering committee, soliciting contributions, engaging the community, judging contributions, recognizing a subset of contributors, and sharing with the community.

Jane Kaye et al in Human Genomics: “Governments, funding bodies, institutions, and publishers have developed a number of strategies to encourage researchers to facilitate access to datasets. The rationale behind this approach is that this will bring a number of benefits and enable advances in healthcare and medicine by allowing the maximum returns from the investment in research, as well as reducing waste and promoting transparency.

Open Access Book by Justin Parkhurst: “There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how this influences the ways in which evidence will be used (or misused) within political areas.

Paper by Michael McGann, Emma Blomkamp and Jenny M. Lewis in Policy Sciences: “Governments are increasingly turning to public sector innovation (PSI) labs to take new approaches to policy and service design. This turn towards PSI labs, which has accelerated in more recent years, has been linked to a number of trends.

Paper by Rachel Baker, Thomas Dee, Brent Evans and June John: “While online learning environments are increasingly common, relatively little is known about issues of equity in these settings. We test for the presence of race and gender biases among postsecondary students and instructors in online classes by measuring student and instructor responses to discussion comments we posted in the discussion forums of 124 different online courses.

Our colleague Jan Žorž will be promoting RIPE-690 “Best Current Operational Practice: IPv6 prefix assignment for end-users – persistent vs non-persistent, and what size to choose” as the opening keynote at the forthcoming Netnod Meeting on 14-15 March 2018 in the Sheraton Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Benson S. Hsu, MD and Emily Griese in Harvard Business Review: “At Sanford Health, a $4.5 billion rural integrated health care system, we deliver care to over 2.5 million people in 300 communities across 250,000 square miles. In the process, we collect and store vast quantities of patient data – everything from admission, diagnostic, treatment and discharge data to online interactions between patients and providers, as well as data on providers themselves.

By Victoria Alsina
Beginning today, the GovLab is organizing a three-day conference taking place in the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center located at the heart of Lake Como in Northern Italy.
We start from the premise that crowdlaw, especially at the municipal level, could offer the potential for a two-way conversation that could channel more and more diverse opinions and expertise at every stage of the law- and policy-making cycle, and may thereby improve the quality and diversity of information in the process and the effectiveness of resulting outcomes.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an increasingly hot buzzword around the Internet industry and the broader technology and innovation business arenas. We are often asked what the IETF is doing in relation to IoT and in this short Rough Guide to IETF 101 post I’d like to highlight some of the relevant sessions scheduled during the upcoming IETF 101 meeting in London.

Christina Oatfield: Have you noticed how many tech start-ups are interested in food these days? We have. There are now dozens of apps you can use to order food to be delivered to your door — either by a human being or sometimes even by a robot. You can order take-out, groceries, or partially prepared meals through apps. And, as we’ve previously written about on our Food News Blog, there are now on-demand pick-up and delivery apps for homemade food.

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On March 6, 2018, The GovLab, Reboot and Reaktor held a panel event about understanding the demand for open data during NYC Open Data Week 2018Photo credit: The GovLab
Anniversaries allow us to pause, reflect and consider plans for what can come next. The second annual NYC Open Data Week, taking place from March 3-10, 2018, provides a similar occasion for members of the burgeoning open data movement to take stock of the distance traveled and consider strategies for advancing to the next stage.

La inédita jornada -organizada por la Dirección de Comunicaciones de la Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones-, contó con la participación de casi un centenar profesionales de las diversas unidades académicas de nuestro plantel. Exposiciones y mesas temáticas de trabajo fueron parte del encuentro, en el que los comunicadores pudieron hacer un diagnóstico de su situación actual, plantear sus necesidades y fortalezas del trabajo diario y trazar líneas a futuro para mejorar el despliegue de las comunicaciones de la primera universidad del país.

Un total de 18 países de América Latina, incluido Chile, participarán este año de la Encuesta Latinoamericana por Internet para Hombres que tienen sexo con Hombres (LAMIS por su sigla en inglés), que tiene por objetivo identificar las necesidades de salud psico-socio-sexual en hombres gays, bisexuales, transexuales y otros hombres que tienen relaciones sexuales con hombres, en un esfuerzo por combatir el impacto del VIH y otras infecciones de transmisión sexual. En nuestro país, la investigadora principal será Valeria Stuardo, de la Escuela de Salud Pública de la U.

En un encuentro realizado el pasado viernes 26 de enero en Casa Central, el Comité conformado por los cuerpos colegiados de nuestro plantel, además de representantes de los funcionarios y estudiantes, revisó el nuevo cuerpo legal, concluyendo un trabajo a través del cual encabezaron la reflexión interna y la participación de la Casa de Bello en este proceso de reforma educacional.

AI on the job: Many U.S. residents believe that artificial intelligence will replace some workers over the next decade or so, but it won’t take theirs, according to a story in the New York Times.

In 2015, the NGO Prajwala sent the Supreme Court a letter raising concerns about videos of sexual violence being distributed on the internet. Over the years, an expert committee was established, which has recommended auto-blocking select search terms and setting up online portals to register complaints against sexual abuse material, amongst others. Our coverage on […]

Das Phänomen ist bekannt: Biologische Organismen, etwa Bakterien, und künstliche aktive Partikel tendieren dazu, sich zu Schwärmen und Mustern zu organisieren. Kaum erforscht hingegen ist, wie genau diese Selbstorganisation funktioniert und welche Kräfte dabei wirken. Experimente zur Dynamik mikroskopischer Partikel sind schwer durchzuführen; auch Simulationen stoßen an ihre Grenzen, wenn grundlegende Wechselwirkungsmechanismen noch unverstanden sind.

We’re excited to share news of the third edition of the Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW2018), which will take place in Montreal, Quebec, on Monday, July 16 at the venue of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) 102 meeting. The workshop program already includes some great invited talks and the Call for Papers is open now, with a deadline of 20 April.