Luis Capelo
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Humanitarian by passion. Open-data lover. Works at +UNOCHA.
Humanitarian by passion. Open-data lover. Works at +UNOCHA.
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Hey folks, it's worth reading Morozov's new piece on privacy here: http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520426/the-real-privacy-problem/
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Completely agree with this piece. If only we had more +Andrej Verity s at the UN we would be in a much better place today.
This piece is utterly brilliant, an important manifesto on how the DIY movement is enabling a new era of citizen exploration (far beyond the vision of "citizen science.")
One sample:
"People have been talking about the Internet of Things for years. But the aesthetic of the industrial internet always conjured up visions of connected devices that spoke quietly to each other: thermostats that never needed tending, plants that watered themselves and toasters that knew the day’s weather. It was always a promise of convenience (and automation and sleekness). What wasn’t obvious, to me anyway, was that an Internet of Things could usher in a golden age for curiosity. Where everyone, even a luddite like me, was constantly at the edge of what was possible. Where a new adventure — a new set of questions about our world and our place in it — was only a group friends and an internet connection away."
Or as Stewart Brand said, in the memorable quote that opens the piece:
“[In] the last century, discovery was basically finding things. And in this century, discovery is basically making things.”
One sample:
"People have been talking about the Internet of Things for years. But the aesthetic of the industrial internet always conjured up visions of connected devices that spoke quietly to each other: thermostats that never needed tending, plants that watered themselves and toasters that knew the day’s weather. It was always a promise of convenience (and automation and sleekness). What wasn’t obvious, to me anyway, was that an Internet of Things could usher in a golden age for curiosity. Where everyone, even a luddite like me, was constantly at the edge of what was possible. Where a new adventure — a new set of questions about our world and our place in it — was only a group friends and an internet connection away."
Or as Stewart Brand said, in the memorable quote that opens the piece:
“[In] the last century, discovery was basically finding things. And in this century, discovery is basically making things.”
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I really think this is a brilliant visualization that demonstrates how you can create relationships between two completely different datasets to produce a compelling story: http://projects.aljazeera.com/2013/syrias-refugees/index.html#47.156105/-108.317385
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Sometimes it is great to work with authoritative sources such as FAO, even considering its--considerable--limitations.
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+ReliefWeb helping sort huge amount of information available about humanitarian issues.
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Interesting prototype by UNHCR Innovation and the IKEA Foundation. Maybe in the future shelters refugee shelters will be easier to assemble and last longer.
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Creative, ingenuous and forward-looking: how to create innovative solutions with a combination of current and old technologies? Meet Google's Project Loon. https://plus.google.com/u/0/103068231639729844333/posts/8Tq5foufo1z
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Why strong presidential speeches (and other forms of communication) makes presidents less effective. Great New Yorker article by +Ezra Klein The more prominently the president makes an appeal, the harder it is for the opposition to embrace it. Ezra's got the data to back this up. His conclusion? U.S. democracy is f*cked.
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