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DFID Open and Enhanced Access Policy Published at Long Last

DFID Open and Enhanced Access Policy Published at Long Last:
From November 1st, all recipients of DFID funded research must make their findings freely available.

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Under the new policy, researchers will be required to make peer-reviewed journal …
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Marc Goodman: A vision of crimes in the future

Marc Goodman: A vision of crimes in the future (by TEDtalksDirector)
What can (also) be expected with drones, 3D printing, the internet of things and DNA sequencing…
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Free access to British scientific research within two years (The Guardian)

Free access to British scientific research within two years (The Guardian): An important move for open access, but probably not the right one:

[…] research papers that describe work paid for by the British taxpayer will be free online for universiti…
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EU Opens Up Drug Data Secrets

EU Opens Up Drug Data Secrets: via the European Public Sector Information Platform and Reuters:

Europe’s medicines regulator is opening its data vaults to systematic scrutiny in a move that will let independent researchers trawl through millions of …
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A Phone that Knows Where You’re Going

A Phone that Knows Where You’re Going: The potential of Big Data and why it is scary to have companies and governments collecting it…

In a study on 200 people willing to be tracked, the system was, on average, less than 20 meters off when it predict…
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Extreme Poverty and Human Rights: A Case Study of the United States of America

Extreme Poverty and Human Rights: A Case Study of the United States of America: Interesting article. The “usual talk” about eradicating extreme poverty, but applied to an unusual suspect: the US.

Extreme poverty, defined as a composite of income p…
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