The idea that ICT can help individuals in acquiring awareness and collectively adopt sustainable living strategies is now well rooted in the EU research agenda. EU-financed everyAware, of course, is a living proof of such. But events in this field are increasing in number and frequency, and are gaining more and more institutional credit. For […]
A great news in the field of social media research: data collected through the Ushahidi platform during its main deployments so far are now available on the Ushahidi community website. “Ushahidi” means “testimony” in Swahili. That’s where the name of the event mapping website comes from. Ushahidi.com was created to monitor the riots following 2008 […]
There has been a lot of buzz in the Internet about the icelandic “crowdsourced” constitutional reform. The Iceland government is actually doing a very good job by involving people through social networks in the reform process. However, it is not clear how comments collected through Facebook and the other social tools will be taken […]
Muki Haklay, UCL group leader in the everyAware consortium, has just been awarded by Google a grant to investigate how Google Earth Tours can be employed in education, a research project based on the expertise Haklay has developed in the geospatial information usability field. The awarded program will be carried on together […]
Thousands of radioactivity monitoring stations in Germany are now linked on a single interactive map. Hiding health threats today is not as easy as it was at the Chernobyl epoch.
Few people know him, but Marian Steinbach has been one of the most relevant worldwide independent sources about the Fukushima nuclear crisis. He is […]
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