The state of open data in the development sector

For completeness, I copied my post from the Data4Development site: The State of Open Data (Davies et al., 2019) is an extensive report about “all things open data”. Chapter 5 deals with open data for development assistance and humanitarian action, and highlights the crucial chicken-and-egg problem we see as well: Lack of investment in data […]

Around the web in recent months

photo: "Spider and web", Dwight Sipler (cc-by 2009)Fundstücke published this week:

Around the web in week 48, 2012

photo: "Spider and web", Dwight Sipler (cc-by 2009)Fundstücke published this week:

Around the web in week 47, 2012

photo: "Spider and web", Dwight Sipler (cc-by 2009)Fundstücke published this week:

Around the web in week 46, 2012

photo: "Spider and web", Dwight Sipler (cc-by 2009)Fundstücke published this week:

Engineering 1984

While catching up with the nettime mailing list, I came across two articles that give me the creeps. Microsoft filed patents for a ‘consumer detector’, to let your Xbox or TV decoder detect who is watching, and if the audience is not deemed suitable, to stop playback. Apple received a patent that lets the police […]

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