Experimental Tribe: (not so) serious games for scientific purposes
The Everyaware team will participate to the “Second Workshop on Computational Social Science and the Wisdom of Crowds” (within NIPS2011) with a presentation of Experime ...Citizen cyberscientists gather in 2012
The 2012 edition of the London Citizen Cyberscience Summit has been recently announced. It will take place in London from 16 to 18 February 2012, and some leading figures of worldw ...The net delusion of the healthcare system
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, eve ...How many birds are there?
Humans are still the best systems in recognizing acoustic patterns. For example, volunteers perform much better than machines in associating vocalizations to the corresponding spec ...SeGiochiFaiScienza
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) ...
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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
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.
The idea that ICT can help individuals in acquiring awareness and collectively adopt sustainable living strategies is now well rooted in the EU research agenda. EU-financed everyAware, of course, is a living proof of such. But events in this field are increasing in number and frequency, and are gaining more and more institutional credit. For […]
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 […]
There has been a lot of buzz in the Internet about the icelandic “crowdsourced” constitutional reform. The Iceland government is actually doing a very good job by involving people through social networks in the reform process. However, it is not clear how comments collected through Facebook and the other social tools will be taken […]
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