The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Towards a Community Data Commons Greg Bloom This all points to a question that the civic technology movement must consider: whose responsibility is it to produce and share knowledge about a community?
I was glad to respond to an invitation to write “Beyond Data Monitoring,” a Background Paper for the UN International Expert Advisory Group (IEAG) on the Data Revolution, co-chaired by Robin Li of Baidu, which is good, with Open Source represented by Tim “algorithms rule” O’Reilly, which is bad. Although the paper gained no traction …
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Chasing Non Swimmers from the Data Lake If you are one of the Big Data believers, you will find “Clearing Up Muddied Waters in the ‘Data Lakes’” a reminder about the plasticity of concepts and their connotations. The write up addresses a clever phrase used to describe a storage pool into which You store raw …
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Global Witness and Open Knowledge – Working together to investigate and campaign against corruption related to the extractives industries Sam Leon, one of Open Knowledge’s data experts, talks about his experiences working as an School of Data Embedded Fellow at Global Witness. Phi Beta Iota: We are seeing convergence. See also #TrueCost and #ConflictFree See …
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FCC Chair Sounds Like He’s Going to Ignore President Obama’s Plan to Save the Internet Wheeler was described by the Post, which relied on anonymous sources, as “visibly frustrated.” He is said to be going ahead with his own proposal, which would offer companies like Comcast and Verizon the ability to charge a premium for …
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Computing Research Institutes as an Innovation Pathway for Humanitarian Technology The World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) is an initiative by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to improve humanitarian action. The Summit, which is to be held in 2016, stands to be one of the most important humanitarian conferences in a decade. One key pillar of WHS is humanitarian innovation. “Transformation …
Brown Dog Chases Answer to Uncurated Data Depending on one’s field, it may seem like every bit of information in existence is now just an Internet search away. However, as researchers well know, there is a wealth of potentially crucial information that is still difficult to access. In fact, GCN tells us that marketing firm …
