The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Anonymous takes down over 550 Israeli sites, wipes databases, leaks email addresses and passwords When the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) this week began taking military action in the Gaza strip against Hamas (as the IDF announced on Twitter), Anonymous declared its own war as part of #OpIsrael. Among the casualties are thousands of email addresses …
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What Percentage of Tweets Generated During a Crisis Are Relevant for Humanitarian Response? More than half-a-million tweets were generated during the first three days of Hurricane Sandy and well over 400,000 pictures were shared via Instagram. Last year, over one million tweets were generated every five minutes on the day that Japan was struck by …
Intelligence, this is. Predicting presidents, storms and life by computer Associated Press, Saturday, November 10, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — Forget political pundits, gut instincts, and psychics. The mightier-than-ever silicon chip seems to reveal the future. In just two weeks this fall, computers models displayed an impressive prediction prowess. It started when the first computer model …
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Crowdsourcing the Evaluation of Post-Sandy Building Damage Using Aerial Imagery Posted on November 1, 2012 | 1 Comment My colleague Schuyler Erle from Humanitarian OpenStreetMap just launched a very interesting effort in response to Hurricane Sandy. He shared the info below via CrisisMappers earlier this morning, which I’m turning into this blog post to help him recruit more …
Open education has at least three components: free access to learning resources; digital access to formerly analog learning resoources (e.g. instructors in classrooms); and learning accomplishment validation (becoming common) or credentialing (rare at this time). More broadly defined, open education is “root” for any society desiring to be both democratic and prosperous. Open education has …
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To be Part of the Future You Have to Hack It Alan Moore Huffington Post, 6 August 2012 Embracing an ambiguous world In 2006 IBM produced a report called ‘The enterprise of the future’. The survey of CEOs revealed that 8 out of 10 CEOs saw significant change ahead and yet the gap between expected …
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