data

See the following -

USAID Uses Data.gov for Crowdsourcing

Molly Bernhart Walker | FierceGovernment | July 3, 2012

The U.S. Agency for International Development turned to crowdsourcing to fill missing data gaps it uncovered while trying to map where its development credit authority loans were being issued. After considering several platforms, the agency found a surprising crowdsourcing solution in data.gov, said Stephanie Grosser, presidential management fellow at USAID, during a June 28 event, hosted by the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. Read More »

Ushahidi – Collecting Data in New Ways

Staff Writer | The Guardian | July 4, 2012

Nathaniel Manning, director of business development and strategy for Ushahidi, on how the organisation is mapping new data through crowdsourcing and changing the way information is used. Read More »

Ushahidi: Machine Learning For Human Rights

Rob Mitchum | Data Science for Social Good | July 15, 2013

“2-car acc @ State & Lake, both drivers injred” That short, hastily typed text message or tweet contains a lot of information that police, emergency responders, news organizations and drivers could use. Read More »

Using Motorcycles To Survey In Haiti

Brian Wolford | Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team | May 28, 2013

As part of the CAP103 project, financed by USAID, being run in the North of Haiti right now we have started coordinating motorcycles for survey purposes. Read More »

VA Western New York Healthcare System Unveils Electronic Medical Record Initiative to Benefit Veteran Patients

Press Release | HEALTHeLINK, VA Western New York Healthcare System | July 31, 2012

Western New York is one of 13 communities in the United States selected by VA to participate in the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) Health Communities Program. Participating physicians from VA, private practices and hospitals across Western New York will be able to access critical health information for their Veteran patients through HEALTHeLINK, Western New York's clinical information exchange. Read More »

Vampire Data And 3 Other Cyber Security Threats For 2013

Mike Miliard | Government Health IT | December 31, 2012

Kroll Advisory Solutions has released its 2013 Cyber Security Forecast, spotlighting some of the pressing and perhaps unexpected privacy and security issues healthcare and other organizations may be grappling with in the coming year. Read More »

Want A Cloud Where You Call The Shots? Consider ownCloud

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | June 25, 2013

Nervous about the NSA, PRISM and your public cloud? Not sure you want to put all your data eggs in one Amazon Web Services zone basket? Read More »

Welcome To A Brand New PlanPhilly!

Matt Golas and Ashley Hahn | PlanPhilly | January 14, 2013

What you are looking at today is a thoroughly new, innovative PlanPhilly website that is designed to better connect the planning, design and development communities in Philadelphia through an integrated content package made up of breaking and investigative news, expert analysis and opinion, organizational and individual profiles, mapped neighborhood pages and enhanced photo and video packages. Read More »

What Is Corruption Mapping?

Heather Leson | Ushahidi | November 7, 2012

In the past year, we have seen a rise of corruption tracking maps or maps that include tracking corruption as part of their project. A number of our Deployment of the Weeks have been corruption maps. And, one of our Trusted Developers, Tarik Nash-Nesh, has been a leader connecting Ushahidi’s community with Transparency International. Read More »

What The Red Dots Are For, Or Why We Map (Part 1: Iraq)

Helena Puig Larrauri | Ushahidi | February 22, 2013

Mercy Corps has recently embarked on a strategy to introduce mapping tools to its conflict management and protection programs around the globe – from Iraq to Kenya to Nepal... Read More »

What Took So Long? The First Open Source Private Cloud Software Arrives

Brian Proffitt | ReadWriteWeb | August 1, 2012

Rackspace has become the first vendor to deliver on the promise of true cloud-computing portability for businesses with Wednesday’s launch of the first commercial cloud service using OpenStack cloud technology. Read More »

What Will Happen If The Feds Get Warrantless Access To Phone Location Data

Christopher Mims | The Atlantic | September 6, 2012

On Tuesday prosecutors for the Obama administration argued that records of location data gathered by cell-phone companies should be available to law enforcement even when no search warrant has previously been issued by a judge. Read More »

Why Doesn’t Apple Enable Sustainable Businesses On The App Store?

Ben Thompson | stratechery | July 1, 2013

Unfortunately, productivity apps are a terrible match for [Apple] app store economics. The app store favors... Read More »

Why Getting To A Digital Health Care System Is Going to Be Harder Than We Thought Ten Years Ago

David Shaywitz and Tory Wolff | The Health Care Blog | January 1, 2012

A leading scientist once claimed that, with the relevant data and a large enough computer, he could “compute the organism” – meaning completely describe its anatomy, physiology, and behavior. Another legendary researcher asserted that, following capture of the relevant data, “we will know what it is to be human.” Read More »

Why Scholarly Societies Are Against Open Access

Doug Rocks-Macqueen | Doug's Archaeology | September 14, 2012

As I mentioned earlier today I wrote an article for the Index on Censorship special issue about censorship of academia. The online version unfortunately was missing a table that was in the print version. Read More »