How to use Google Earth at school

By On 20/06/2011 · Leave a Comment

Muki Haklay, UCL group leader in the everyAware consortium, has just been awarded by Google a grant to investigate how Google Earth Tours can be employed in education, a research project based on the expertise Haklay has developed in the geospatial information usability field. The awarded program will be carried on together […]

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Open radiation data now available for Germany

By On 20/06/2011 · 2 Comments

Thousands of radioactivity monitoring stations in Germany are now linked on a single interactive map. Hiding health threats today is not as easy as it was at the Chernobyl epoch.

Few people know him, but Marian Steinbach has been one of the most relevant worldwide independent sources about the Fukushima nuclear crisis. He is […]

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Democracy is back in town

By On 17/06/2011 · Leave a Comment

Chiara Camponeschi has written an interesting post on the MIT CoLab Radio blog about everyday democracy in the urban environment. Public involvement in the collective decision making is now shifting from formal politics to an informal ongoing participation process. This has been made possible by a number […]

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Participatory research is not an easy task

By On 08/06/2011 · Leave a Comment

A recent paper by Jill Lindsey Harrison from University of Wisconsin-Madison analyzes the difficulties in involving lay people in participatory research projects. She has interviewed several participants to the monitoring of pesticide pollution in the U.S., local […]

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The Internet of things for a sustainable future

By On 06/05/2011 · Leave a Comment

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.

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