Open Science Summit

By On 21/10/2011 · 1 Comment

The second edition of the Open Science Summit is opening tomorrow. According to the organizers’ presentation,

The Open Science Summit unites researchers, life science industry professionals, students, patients and other stakeholders to discuss the future of collaborative science and innovation.

If you cannot make it to Mountain View, you can follow the […]

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Mines of data released

By On 21/10/2011 · Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Safer streets thanks to Blackberry outage

By On 19/10/2011 · Leave a Comment

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.

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Yellow cabs could get green

By On 19/10/2011 · Leave a Comment

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 […]

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15Oct, Ushahidi for global change

By On 14/10/2011 · Leave a Comment

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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