A Federal Court of Canada decision has forced the Federal Government of Canada to release the pollution data related to the mining activity to the National Pollution Release Inventory. For a comparison, a similar inventory has been active in the U.S. since 1998, but before the decision the Canadian mining industry had no obligation […]
EveryAware, as many other research groups, companies, non-profit organizations, is based on the idea that information and communication technologies may help people to adopt healthier and safer collective behaviors. It turns out that it is not always the case, as the recent Blackberry outage shows.
Do you often complain about taxi (yes, we always do)?
Well, your trouble may be ending now. A paper, presented at the First Workshop on Pervasive Urban Application summarized on the last issue of “IEEE Pervasive Computing”, shows that taxi performance in cities can be largely improved by analyzing and modeling their GPS […]
Tomorrow it’s October, 15th: a D-Day for global changers around the world, as hundreds of demonstrations will take the roads following the Indignad@s and the #OccupyWallSt examples – and the Middle East spring, for those who seek for quite successful examples. Thanks to Ushahidi, this revolution will be crowdmapped.
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As crowdsourcing become a standard way of data collection, cities seem more and more the ideal ecosystem for this activity due to the high density of sensors and communication networks. The examples collected by the Ushaidi blog show how user-generated and geo-located news can be represented by current mapping software. Of course, watching data […]
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