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2013/04/072013/04/07

Owl: US Department of Justice Now in Business of Shutting Down Web Sites Telling the Plain Truth

This article The U.S. Government Is Suing Barrett Brown’s Intelligence Research Site offers recent developments in the case of Barrett Brown, a journalist/activist whose web site “Project PM” runs a wiki that provides “a centralized, actionable data set regarding the intelligence contracting industry, the PR industry’s interface with totalitarian regimes, the mushrooming infosec/”cybersecurity” industry, and …

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2013/04/052013/04/05

Berto Jongman: GPS Mobile Emergency Bracelet

Smart bracelet protects aid workers A hi-tech bracelet could soon be helping civil rights and aid workers at risk of being kidnapped or killed. When triggered, the personal alarm uses phone and sat-nav technology to warn that its wearer is in danger. Warnings are sent in the form of messages to Facebook and Twitter to …

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2013/04/022013/04/09

INTERVIEW: Open Everything – with Robert David STEELE Vivas UPDATED to Add Parts V and VI

Open Everything – Interview with Robert David STEELE Vivas David Balaban Privacy PC, April 2-8, 2013 PART I Open Everything – Interview with Robert David STEELE Vivas This section open with Mr. Steele’s thoughts on CIA and CIA IT. PART II: Open Everything – Interview with Robert David STEELE Vivas. Part 2 This section of …

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2013/04/012013/04/03

Patrick Meier: Automatically Extracting Disaster-Relevant Information from Social Media

Automatically Extracting Disaster-Relevant Information from Social Media My team and I at QCRI have just had this paper (PDF) accepted at the World Wide Web (WWW 2013) conference in Rio next month. The paper relates directly to our Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Response (AIDR) project. One of our main missions at QCRI is to develop open source …

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2013/03/27

Patrick Meier: GDACSmobile: Disaster Responders Turn to Bounded Crowdsourcing

GDACSmobile: Disaster Responders Turn to Bounded Crowdsourcing GDACS, the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System, sparked my interest in technology and disaster response when it was first launched back in 2004, which is why I’ve referred to GDACS in multiple blog posts since. This near real-time, multi-hazard monitoring platform is a joint initiative between the UN’s …

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2013/03/262013/03/26

Patrick Meier: Zooniverse — The Answer to Big (Crisis) Data?

Zooniverse — The Answer to Big (Crisis) Data? Both humanitarian and development organizations are completely unprepared to deal with the rise of “Big Crisis Data” & “Big Development Data.” But many still hope that Big Data is but an illusion. Not so, as I’ve already blogged here, here and here. This explains why I’m on a quest to …

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2013/03/242013/03/26

Cory A. Booker of Newark: Politician From and For the Future? Data-Driven, Interactive, Separating from Party Dogma?

A Politician From the Future Anand Giridharadas New York Times, 22 March 2013 Cory A. Booker is hoping to be the next U.S. senator from New Jersey. But the constituency he seems keenest to represent is the future itself. Perhaps more than any prominent American politician, Mr. Booker — the 43-year-old Democrat and mayor of …

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