According to a widely accepted view, the current ICT trend will enhance the wisdom of crowds and challenge the role of experts. For instance, projects like Wikipedia already outperform traditional knowledge systems based on specialists’ effort. Still, this scenario encounters some residual resistance.
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 […]
Vittorio Loreto, Muki Haklay and Jan Theunis took part to the
ESF Exploratory Workshop on “The Internet Of Things For A Sustainable Future“,
9-13 May 2011, Vielsalm, Belgium.
The kick-off meeting of the new EveryAware project took place in Torino on March 14-15th 2011 at the ISI Foundation
EveryAware Enhance environmental awareness through social information technologies
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- 20 Mar 13 - Kassel - EveryAware Meeting - Kassel, 20-22th March 2013
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