Vittorio Loreto gave a plenary talk on “Participation, awareness and learning” at the first Global Systems Science conference, November 8–10, 2012 Brussels, Belgium.
The aim of the Conference was that of contributing to the development of Global Systems Science (GSS). The study of problems as diverse as global climate change and global financial […]
EveryAware presenta la prima edizione di SeGiochiFaiScienza.
Vi invitiamo sabato 9 giugno 2012 presso la libreria Assaggi dalle 10 alle 20, Via degli Etruschi 4, Roma (San Lorenzo) per una giornata interattiva di giochi e scienza.
Dozens of new citizen science projects are generated daily. Most of them include beautiful maps, fair amounts of crowdsourced data, amazing visualization tools. But how many of these projects provide a really good representation of the monitored projects? In other words: we can ask birdwatchers to monitor birds’ migration paths, but are we really […]
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 […]
In our latest post, we argued that a social network is NOT a wise crowd unless it comprises an efficient method to rate information and information sources in order to select good from bad user generated content. Well, it seems to be a hot topics: after Pachube, Ushahidi staff too is receiving
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