#OSE Open Source Everything – Page 160 – Public Intelligence Blog

OpenCorporates, which has received an initial grant from Alfred P Sloan, one of the funders of Wikipedia, takes its business model from the open source software movement.

OpenCorporates makes company data public

Company data that shows the complex relationships between companies and their subsidiaries worldwide is being made available as part of an initiative to place more government data in the public domain.

OpenCorporates, part of the Open Data Institute established by web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, is publishing data on millions of international companies and their subsidiaries – the first time the data has been made freely available.

The move is one of the first concrete actions to follow the G8 summit, where member states signed an Open Data Charter, committing them to make data available in ways that are easily discoverable, usable or understandable by the public.

The OpenCorporates website uses sophisticated analytics technology to map the relationships between companies registered in different jurisdictions, revealing complex networks of ownership.

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2013/07/11

Graphic: Transparency International Defense Corruption Elements

Corruption, Corruption, Government, Graphics, Military

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Phi Beta Iota: A good first effort but spectacularly off on the USA and completely lacking in total life cycle costs and in operational test & evaluation — most systems cost far more than they should, do not work as advertised, have huge logistics tails and intelligence needs that are rarely met, and so on. A good start, a long way to go.

Owl: GOVERNMENT DEFENCE ANTI- CORRUPTION INDEX 2013

2013/07/10

Robin Good: Supermap of Over 400 Content Curation Services

Crowd-Sourcing, Culture, Design, Education, Governance, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Software, Sources (Info/Intel)

If you are looking for your ideal content curation toolkit here is my new completely updated supermap, listing in over 30 categories all of the tools and services you may need to curate any content, from video to news. This new supermap includes all of the tools and services that were already listed on NewsMaster Toolkit, with the addition of 25 new tools and with a much better organization of categories and labels. My choice for organizing and recreating this supermap has now fallen on Pearltrees, the only content curation tool that can easily handle most of my key requirements for such a large collection of tools. Nonetheless there are over 400 tools listed in this supermap, Pearltrees makes it a breeze to navigate through them, and to add new ones to the relevant branches. The supermap is now being updated daily.

P.S.: I already feel the need for having a PRO account, which could allow me to further edit the pearls collected, to preserve original web pages saved, and to add images to pearls that weren't able to capture one from the web.

Enjoy the new supermap here: http://bit.ly/ContentCurationToolsSupermap. Try it out and let me know what you think. (*and if you think I am missing some tools or can improve with my taxonomy, feel free to send me in your suggestions!)

2013/07/102013/07/10

Patrick Meier: Analyzing Crisis Hashtags on Twitter

#OSE Open Source Everything, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Analyzing Crisis Hashtags on Twitter

Hashtag footprints can be revealing. The map below, for example, displays the top 200 locations in the world with the most Twitter hashtags. The top 5 are Sao Paolo, London, Jakarta, Los Angeles and New York.

A recent study (PDF) of 2 billion geo-tagged tweets and 27 million unique hashtags found that “hashtags are essentially a local phenomenon with long-tailed life spans.” The analysis also revealed that hashtags triggered by external events like disasters “spread faster than hashtags that originate purely within the Twitter network itself.” Like other metadata, hashtags can be informative in and of themselves. For example, they can provide early warning signals of social tensions in Egypt, as demonstrated in this study. So might they also reveal interesting patterns during and after major disasters?

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2013/07/092013/07/09

Patrick Meier: Boston Marathon Explosions: Analyzing First 1,000 Seconds on Twitter

Crowd-Sourcing, Geospatial, Governance, Resilience

Boston Marathon Explosions: Analyzing First 1,000 Seconds on Twitter

My colleagues Rumi Chunara and John Brownstein recently published a short co-authored study entitled “Twitter as a Sentinel in Emergency Situations: Lessons from the Boston Marathon Explosions.” At 2.49pm EDT on April 15, two improvised bombs exploded near the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon. Ambulances left the scene approximately 9 minutes later just as public health authorities alerted regional emergency departments of the incident.

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2013/07/08

Graphic: Middle Class Protesting Globally — Except in the USA

Citizen-Centered, Corruption, Graphics, Political

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2013/07/08

Patrick Meier: Egypt Twitter Map of iPhone, Android and Blackberry Users

Crowd-Sourcing, Geospatial, Politics

Egypt Twitter Map of iPhone, Android and Blackberry Users

Colleagues at GNIP and MapBox recently published this high-resolution map of iPhone, Android and Blackberry users in the US (click to enlarge). “More than 280 million Tweets posted from mobile phones reveal geographic usage patterns in unprecedented detail.” These patterns are often insightful. Some argue that “cell phone brands say something about socio-economics – it takes a lot of money to buy a new iPhone 5,” for example (1). So a map of iPhone users based on where these users tweet reveals where relatively wealthy people live.

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