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- New Technologies in Emergencies and Conflicts: The Role of Information and Social Networks -- looks at innovation in the use of technology along the timeli...New Technologies in Emergencies and Conflicts: The Role of Information and Social Networks -- looks at innovation in the use of technology along the timeline of crisis response, from emergency preparedness and alerts to recovery and rebuilding. It profiles organizations whose work is advancing the frontlines of innovation, offers an overview of international efforts to increase sophistication in the use of IT and social networks during emergencies, and provides recommendations for how governments, aid groups, and international organizations can leverage this innovation to improve community resilience. We invite you to join a global online discussion about the key themes addressed in this publication. Submit questions for our panel of experts via Twitter (using the tag #Tech4Dev) or the UN Foundation’s Facebook page.
- Locast is an innovative platform for sharing and discovering location-based user-generated videos and production quality multimedia content provided by RAI...Locast is an innovative platform for sharing and discovering location-based user-generated videos and production quality multimedia content provided by RAI TV. It consists of a combination of mobile and wearable computing elements supported by a distributed Web application. Content gathered from RAI TV’s historical archives and user-generated media are linked to physical locations in Venice in order to be accessible to all those visiting the space. The project focuses on the uniqueness of the Italian cities’ heritage superimposing a layer that corresponds to the shared media-based memory of the recent Italian past: the RAI Archives. By taking advantage of the interactivity provided by new media, RAI offers a powerful feedback channel to users, which allows users to generate their own media, create their own stories and, finally, to participate in the media production process. Locast offers to users the tools to build personalized itineraries, download the content in proximity of Points of Interests and watch them on their handsets in order to improve the overall tourist experience. Users can also perform a number of other actions such as contribute with new videos to Locast repository, follow recommended media itineraries, modify them and share experiences with their social network. Locast explores location-based narrowcasting potential and actively engages the users to participate in the media production/consumption process together with a historical institution such as RAI TV. It shifts the innovation from the wide-spread concept of Web2.0 to the promising scenario of Space2.0 that keeps the physical and social qualities of the Italian cities and augment them with the potential offered by pervasive computing.
- Anyone following protest movements in the last few years has witnessed how mobile phones have become an integral part of the mass organizing of protests an...Anyone following protest movements in the last few years has witnessed how mobile phones have become an integral part of the mass organizing of protests and demonstration. In the Philippines, South Korea, Nepal, Bolivia, China, the Ukraine, the United States, and most recently Burma and Pakistan, cell phone have connected activists and ordinary people, giving civic voice to individuals and creating communication channels for organizing, mobilizing, and reporting.
- Juggling boosts the connections between different parts of the brain by tweaking the architecture of the brain's "white matter" – a finding that could lead...Juggling boosts the connections between different parts of the brain by tweaking the architecture of the brain's "white matter" – a finding that could lead to new therapies for people with brain injuries.
- More than half of adult Americans report they have had a spiritual experience that changed their lives. Now, scientists from universities like Harvard, Pen...More than half of adult Americans report they have had a spiritual experience that changed their lives. Now, scientists from universities like Harvard, Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins are using new technologies to analyze the brains of people who claim they have touched the spiritual — from Christians who speak in tongues to Buddhist monks to people who claim to have had near-death experiences. Hear what they have discovered in this controversial field, as the science of spirituality continues to evolve.
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- Mobile app sees science go global
- המשרד להגנת הסביבה מפרסם טיוטת מבחנים לתמיכה כספית במוסדות ציבור העוסקים בחינוך סביבתי - לעיון הציבור מקור: אגף חינוך סביבתי תאריך עדכון: 18/08/2009 ...המשרד להגנת הסביבה מפרסם טיוטת מבחנים לתמיכה כספית במוסדות ציבור העוסקים בחינוך סביבתי - לעיון הציבור מקור: אגף חינוך סביבתי תאריך עדכון: 18/08/2009 המשרד להגנת הסביבה מבקש לתמוך במוסדות ציבור הפועלים בתחום חינוך סביבתי, בהתאם לחוק יסודות התקציב ובכפוף לנוהל בקשת תמיכות מתקציב המדינה. מטרת התמיכות היא לפתח בציבור הרחב מודעות ואחריות לנושאים סביבתיים באמצעות פעולות חינוך והסברה, וכן ליצור תשתית מתאימה לפיתוח פעולות אלה. המשרד מעוניין לקבל את הערות הציבור לטיוטת מבחני התמיכה בתחום החינוך הסביבתי, בטרם יוחלט על הנוסח הסופי של המבחנים. את טיוטת מבחני התמיכה בתחום החינוך הסביבתי אפשר להוריד כאן, באתר, או לקבל באמצעות הפקס או הדואר, לאחר פנייה טלפונית אל אגף החינוך: 02-6495809.
- via http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2417 "Like Twitter, it’s a microblogging site, but it builds in significant additional functionality to support classroom...via http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2417 "Like Twitter, it’s a microblogging site, but it builds in significant additional functionality to support classroom interactions." "When you create an account, you designate yourself as a teacher or student. Teachers can create groups that students join when they create their accounts (students can join multiple groups and teachers can create and/or join multiple groups); when a group is created, the site generates a group code that must be entered to join. Then, messages, files, links, and assignments can be sent to whole groups."
- GeoGebra is dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that joins arithmetic, geometry, algebra and calculus. On the one hand, GeoGebra is an...GeoGebra is dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that joins arithmetic, geometry, algebra and calculus. On the one hand, GeoGebra is an interactive geometry system. You can do constructions with points, vectors, segments, lines, conic sections as well as functions and change them dynamically afterwards. On the other hand, equations and coordinates can be entered directly. Thus, GeoGebra has the ability to deal with variables for numbers, vectors and points, finds derivatives and integrals of functions and offers commands like Root or Extremum. These two views are characteristic of GeoGebra: an expression in the algebra view corresponds to an object in the graphics view and vice versa.
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- Print. Cut. Fold. Tape. News. Check out my "Hipster Grifter" Paper Foldable, part of a hipster-of-the-month series for FREE...Print. Cut. Fold. Tape. News. Check out my "Hipster Grifter" Paper Foldable, part of a hipster-of-the-month series for FREEwilliamsburg! . . . Here's a Paper Foldable I produced for The Handsome Family promoting their new album! . . . I'll have some Paper Foldables on display at the Urban Paper book launch party & papertoy art show! . . . Be sure to get the new book, "Urban Paper", by Matt Hawkins. I have some supplemental material on the DVD included! . . . Check out these GIANT Street Fighter Paper Foldables from CAPCOM's Street Fighter IV release party! . . . Check out the Paper Foldables I made for Lionhead Studio's XBOX 360 game, "Fable 2"! . . . Paper Foldables is showcased in the November 2008 issue of Computer Arts Projects #116! . . . Here's a cool animation made by High School students featuring my Paper Foldables! . . . I made a Paper Foldable for the Primo Spot website. . . . Here is an animation I made promoting my Paper Foldables "Finger Footballers" game for Manchester United. . . . Paper Foldables is represented in Capcom/Udon's Street Fighter Tribute book! . . . My Charlotte Sometimes Paper Foldable is now available for download! . . . Check out this tiny Tim & Eric Paper Foldables fan! . . . For information, contact: bryan@paperfoldables.com © 2009 www.paperfoldables.com . . . Also: www.paperfoldables.blogspot.com
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- Circular bike rides around the Northern Broads of Norfolk. Downloadable route maps for cyclists.
- Welcome to RezEd (BETA), an online hub providing practitioners using virtual worlds with access to the highest quality resources and research in the field ...Welcome to RezEd (BETA), an online hub providing practitioners using virtual worlds with access to the highest quality resources and research in the field to establish a strong network of those using virtual worlds for learning.
- STARR is the acronym PLANET uses to describe it's sharing methodology, which is based on story telling.
- Cloud Foundry supports the Apache, Tomcat and MySQL stack. It configures MySQL for master/slave replication and uses Apache to load balance across one or m...Cloud Foundry supports the Apache, Tomcat and MySQL stack. It configures MySQL for master/slave replication and uses Apache to load balance across one or more Tomcat servers.
- Professor Ian McNeely visits Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA, to discuss the book written by him and Lisa Wolverton "Reinventing Knowledge"
- Thingiverse is a place for you to share your digital designs with the world. We believe that just as computing shifted away from the mainframe into the per...Thingiverse is a place for you to share your digital designs with the world. We believe that just as computing shifted away from the mainframe into the personal computer that you use today, digital fabrication will share the same path. Infact, it is already happening: laser cutters, cnc machines, 3D printers, and even automated paper cutters are all getting cheaper by the day. These machines are useful for a huge variety of things, but you need to supply them with a digital design in order to get anything useful out of them. We're hoping that together we can create a community of people who create and share designs freely, so that all can benefit from them.
- WattzOn allows you to measure the amount of power needed to support all of the aspects of your lifestyle. By calculating every impact in watts, all the var...WattzOn allows you to measure the amount of power needed to support all of the aspects of your lifestyle. By calculating every impact in watts, all the varied choices made in your life can be directly compared - including actions that happen on markedly different timescales. Measuring in power rather than carbon emissions also recognizes that there are not enough remaining fossil fuel sources to support the energy needs of the world. Not limited to activities, you can also determine the impact of your belongings through the embodied energy database. WattzOn is opening up the assumptions, the methodology, the mathematics, and the data to the entire community -- we can argue, modify, tweak, and eventually reach consensus so that WattzOn's power estimates improve over time.
- The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain an...The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland, and you can be part of it.
- Welcome to the Social Media Classroom and Collaboratory. It’s all free, as in both “freedom of speech” and “almost totally free beer.” We invite you to bu...Welcome to the Social Media Classroom and Collaboratory. It’s all free, as in both “freedom of speech” and “almost totally free beer.” We invite you to build on what we’ve started to create more free value. The Social Media Classroom (we’ll call it SMC) includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes—integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools. The Classroom also includes curricular material: syllabi, lesson plans, resource repositories, screencasts and videos. The Collaboratory (or Colab), is what we call just the web service part of it. Educators are encouraged to use the Colab and SMB materials freely, and we host your Colab communities if you don’t want to install your own. (See this for an explanation of who “we” are).
- Create a game or other fun application in just a few clicks with Sharendipity's new free game creation tools! No programming required! Don't forget to shar...Create a game or other fun application in just a few clicks with Sharendipity's new free game creation tools! No programming required! Don't forget to share your creations with your friends!
- Do you, 1UP reader and game-addiction candidate, spend more than two hours playing games a day? Well, sure -- maybe you do, but that doesn't necessarily ma...Do you, 1UP reader and game-addiction candidate, spend more than two hours playing games a day? Well, sure -- maybe you do, but that doesn't necessarily make you an addict.
- Cause Caller, the virtual phone bank, uses. From this wiki you can manage politician's contact information, and more importantly, create and manage the cau...Cause Caller, the virtual phone bank, uses. From this wiki you can manage politician's contact information, and more importantly, create and manage the causes that Cause Caller offers activists. This wiki is also meant to be a free and well maintained database of public official's content information available in the RDF format. This means that you can use the data in Cause Caller's database for your own projects by using the Special:ExportRDF page to export structured data that you can query using languages like SPARQL. It also means that this wiki is part of the Semantic Web.
- Andrew Binstock and Donald Knuth converse on the success of open source, the problem with multicore architecture, the disappointing lack of interest in lit...Andrew Binstock and Donald Knuth converse on the success of open source, the problem with multicore architecture, the disappointing lack of interest in literate programming, the menace of reusable code, and that urban legend about winning a programming contest with a single compilation.
- Free web-based education site with comprehensive features for teachers, students and parents. Anyone can teach and/or learn using the system, whether it's...Free web-based education site with comprehensive features for teachers, students and parents. Anyone can teach and/or learn using the system, whether it's at school, at home, or on the move.
- The title of Gershom Gorenberg’s book is somewhat misleading in its suggestion that the establishment of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza was ‘...The title of Gershom Gorenberg’s book is somewhat misleading in its suggestion that the establishment of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza was ‘accidental’. While Gorenberg, an American-born Israeli journalist, notes that no Israeli government ever made a formal decision about the future of the West Bank, his account of the first decade of Israel’s occupation leaves no doubt that the settlements were deliberately founded, and were intended to create a permanent Israeli presence in as much of the Occupied Territories as possible (indeed, the hope was for them to cover all of the Occupied Territories, if the international community would allow it). No Israeli government has ever supported the establishment of a Palestinian state east of the 1949 armistice line that constituted the pre-1967 border. At the very least, the settlements were designed to make a return to that border impossible.
- As promised, here are the materials from the workshop I gave out yesterday at LIFT 08 about Online Communities Design Patterns. The presentation as I’ve sa...As promised, here are the materials from the workshop I gave out yesterday at LIFT 08 about Online Communities Design Patterns. The presentation as I’ve said before is still a work in progress since I’ve started it for Web2Expo Berlin last November, so they share quite a lot in common.