The Collective Intelligence Revolution
Academics & researchers are harnessing our human love of games to crowdsource vast and complex tasks. And when the capacity of the human brain is combined with digital computing power, the possibilities appear truly staggering.
by Anaïs Richardin On May 16, 2012
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The Week In Data
Our weekly review of data journalism on the web, with the usual helping of breathtaking visualizations, inspiring citizen projects and pretty, pretty colours. Carpe Data!
by Paule d'Atha On March 12, 2012
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The Week In Data
The corruption in our world, the supremacy of ants and a little Chopin to set you at ease. All that and more in this week’s super soaraway The Week In Data, brought to you by OWNI’s dedicated data team.
by Paule d'Atha On December 12, 2011
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The Week In Data
In this week’s data round-up brought to you by OWNI’s data journalists: data meets art, surveys, DIY, the Olympic Games and women’s safety.
by Paule d'Atha On December 5, 2011
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Open Source Hardware: A Design For Life
On a farm in the midwest of America a group of scientists, engineers, farmers and DIY enthusiasts are creating the Global Village Construction Set – an open source, low cost, ecofriendly “toolkit for civilisation”.
by Aidan Mac Guill On October 27, 2011
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Crowdsourcing and Crisis Mapping in World War I
Would public opinion during the world wars have differed had live crowdsourced crisis maps existed?
by Patrick Meier On September 7, 2011
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Tunisia 2.0, on its way to the ballot boxes
On October 23, Tunisia has a date with history: the election of its Constituent Assembly. In Tunis, OWNI met avant-garde network democracy and innovative participatory politics.
by Pierre Alonso On August 31, 2011
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Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood: A New Form of Governance?
During the Russian forest fires citizens used the Ushahidi platform to create a “Help Map” during the forest fires, actually taking over functions of the state. Are there deeper political implications behind citizen-based crowdsourcing initiatives?
by Patrick Meier On April 9, 2011
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The power of the people
Dave Munger test-drives two newly unveiled tools for understanding vast sets of cultural and scientific data.
by Dave Munger On January 10, 2011
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Haiti: How Crowdsourced Data Can Predict Crisis Impact
One of the main concerns about crowdsourced crisis information is that the data is “useless” for any serious kind of statistical analysis. But new findings prove otherwise.
by Patrick Meier On November 1, 2010
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Warlogs: European Collaborative Investigation App
Given the huge amount of data made available by Wikileaks, we developed an application allowing you to review the files potentially revealing information about coalition forces. We need you !
by Admin On July 29, 2010
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