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Crafting “smart cities”: India’s new urban vision | openIndia
With a new government in Delhi, India’s urban agenda is now focused on the creation of “Smart Cities” in industrial corridors. Such an initiative is driven by the demand of foreign investors to find sanitized spaces in developing countries in which they can operate easily – unhampered by politics. … Leia mais… »
PUCPR
Dia começando hoje em Curitiba Hoje foi o meu primeiro dia como professor visitante no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Gestão Urbana da Escola de Arquitetura e Design da PUCPR. Vou dar um curso de 16h, orientar, conversar com professores, articular pesquisas futuras e fazer uma palestra. A interface entre estudos Leia mais… »
Why Startup Urbanism Will Fail Us
On the surface, the Downtown Project appears to be a serious commitment to the Jacobs’ “ballet of the street.” It presents all the latest notions of the city as a sustainable, walkable, spontaneously creative space built out of the existing city. Inspired by Harvard economist Ed Glaeser’s free-market urbanist bible, The Triumph of Leia mais… »
Computação e Ética na Sociedade Contemporânea
Participo hoje do Ciclo de Palestras “Computação e Ética na Sociedade Contemporânea”. O tema da minha conferência será: “Liberdade de Expressão, Vigilância e Internet”. Será as 19h no auditório do Instituto de Matemática da UFBA, no Campus de Ondina.
The rise of data and the death of politics
Tech pioneers in the US are advocating a new data-based approach to governance – ‘algorithmic regulation’. But where does this leave governments, asks Evgeny Morozov
Source: www.theguardian.com
Teoria Ator- Rede e Estudos de Comunicação
Estou organizando um número especial para a Revista Contemporanea. CFP abaixo: Nos últimos anos temos visto um crescente interesse da área de comunicação pelas abordagens teóricas e metodológicas da Teoria-Ator Rede (Actor-Network Theory). Pesquisas apresentadas nos principais congressos da área no Brasil, como a Compós, a Intercom, a Abciber, o Leia mais… »
Open Data in Developing Countries: Different models, new approaches | WWW Foundation
Today, we’re sharing the first wave of results from our “Exploring the Emerging Impacts of Open Data in Developing Countries” (ODDC) project. This project marks the first major study of the use and impact of open data in countries across the developing world. Over a hundred researchers from the global South have been involved in developing 17 qualitative case studies with findings that span 13 countries, from Indonesia to Brazil. …
Source: webfoundation.org
(EN) – Big Data A to Z: A glossary of Big Data terminology | Big Data Made Simple
“This is almost a complete glossary of Big Data terminology widely used today. Let us know if you would like to any big data terminology missing in this list.”
Source: www.bigdata-madesimple.com
Chicgo: City of Big Data Makes the Invisible, Visible | Architectural Record
For the exhibition Chicago: City of Big Data, CAF turned its centerpiece Chicago Model—a 320-square-foot resin replica of the city’s downtown, updated annually to reflect additions and subtractions—into an interpretive piece through which to “view” the city’s data. Encompassing everything from tweets to demographics to air quality, so-called big data is increasingly employed by city governments, developers, and designers to create smarter infrastructure that better integrates the urban environment with its populace. …
Source: archrecord.construction.com