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Kick-off meeting of the EveryAware project
The kick-off meeting of the new EveryAware project took place in Torino on March 14-15th 2011 at the ISI Foundation EveryAware Enhance environmental awareness through social information technologies ...
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Democracy is back in town
Chiara Camponeschi has written an interesting post on the MIT CoLab Radio blog about everyday democracy in the urban environment. Public involvement in the collective decision making is now shifting...
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Crowdsourcing policy making
Iceland citizen's assembly to discuss Constitutional reform There has been a lot of buzz in the Internet about the icelandic “crowdsourced” constitutional reform. The Iceland government is actually...
View ArticleToo late, Mr Cameron
Despite David Cameron protests, social networks have played multiple roles in the whole UK riot story. For example, crowdmaps have been created to gather real-time information about ongoing events...
View ArticleFrom Ars Electronica 2011: Place Pulse
The MIT Media Lab online application Place Pulse (presented at Ars Electronica 2011) aims to make quantitative estimates of fuzzy qualities by crowdsourcing binary choices from the public: if you visit...
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Data: visualize or analyze?
At the Eye On Earth Summit, a special working group has been devoted to crowdsourcing for environmental purposes. The White Paper introducing the discussion is a very clear presentation of the field,...
View ArticleGeographies of enthusiasm
An excerpt from one of the most exciting call for papers i have received recently: This session is interested in people, places and cultures that have for various reasons been overlooked, regarded as...
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