Charlotte Kellogg joins the EveryAware community today to discuss ways in
which the 2010 Haiti earthquake sheds light on the importance of climate
control and innovative ways technology can be used to mitigate disaster.
This builds on prior discussions of global warming [socialdynamics.it/everyaware] that
have happened both here and in the […]
In a recent blog post, Andy Oram complains about the difficulty of applying a Silicon-Valley-like attitude toward innovation at the U.S. healthcare system. Lots of regulations, even in the U.S., block care managers from introducing new – and more ICT-based – methodologies in providing information and services. In a similar direction goes a recent […]
A new interesting article on volunteered “GIS systems, OpenStreetMap and all that stuff is out, whose long long title is “Crowdsourcing, citizen sensing and Sensor Web technologies for public and environmental health surveillance and crisis management: trends, OGC standards and application examples”. It is authored (among others) by Maged N. Kamel Boulos and […]
“Bad Science” is the Ben Goldacre’s column on the Guardian about the frequent misuse of scientific facts in our media. So, his endorsement in favor of citizen science (and of open data too, reported here with a great delay, sorry for that) has a doubled value:
Yes, folk trials would have flaws. They […]
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 […]
Events
- 16 Feb 12 - London - The Second London Citizen Cyberscience Summit
- 9 Jun 12 - Roma - SeGiochiFaiScienza
- 29 Oct 12 - Bologna - Smart City Exhibition
- 20 Mar 13 - Kassel - EveryAware Meeting - Kassel, 20-22th March 2013
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