Andy Oram from O’Reilly has written a beautiful report from the Medical Device Connectivity conference held in Boston last week. Manufacturers, doctors and administrators have been discussing there on how new sensing devices connected to communication networks can provide a better service to patients, and massive amounts of data to be analyzed to […]
The 5th annual OpenStreetMap Conference (State of the Map 2011) is opening within hours in Denver, Colorado. OpenStreetMap is “a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you.” It allows people to fully exploit the potential of geographical data: instead of releasing geographical data with strict copyright […]
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 pulse.media.mit.edu, you are shown two photos and asked to select the one referring to the “hotter” […]
Some week ago, i signaled the short-lived attempts of crowd-mapping illegal waste dumps in Naples, Italy: it was an example of how political and media hype does not necessarily help in raising the environmental awareness of a community. Instead, individual commitment can do much more. It is shown by two projects carried on […]
It is traditionally believed that a more informed population about the risks of a pandemics is the best weapon against the contagion. Well, it turns out that is not always the case. A new research paper appearing on Scientific Report shows that well-informed travelers, avoiding regions with the highest rates of infection, actually help […]
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