nonprofit news service provides a wide range of tools that empower citizens to access quality news and information and learn to separate fact from fiction about important public issues. Promotes good journalism, news literacy and civic engagement Social news network features a daily feed of quality news and opinions from mainstream and independent sources, based on ratings from our reviewers. Review tools enable people to rate stories for accuracy, fairness, sourcing, context and other core journalistic principles. Truthsquad, a community fact-checking service. teacher guides and student guides.
Have a story you want to share about the role of technology in your life? Want to rant about a particularly unfair policy at your school surrounding internet use? Want to share your favorite new technological tool with us? Related to the book Born Digital and the initiative of the Digital Natives project, an interdisciplinary collaboration of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen.
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Zanran helps you to find ‘semi-structured’ data on the web. This is the numerical data that people have presented as graphs and tables and charts. For example, the data could be a graph in a PDF report, or a table in an Excel spreadsheet, or a barchart shown as an image in an HTML page. Put more simply: Zanran is Google for data. At present, we extract tables and images from HTML, PDF and Excel files and will be processing PowerPoint and Word documents in the near future.
ZENODO is a repository service that enables researchers, scientists, projects and institutions to share and showcase multidisciplinary research results (data and publications) that are not part of existing institutional or subject-based repositories.
ZineWiki is an open-source encyclopedia devoted to zines and independent media. It covers the history, production, distribution and culture of the small press.
An Ideas Exchange Blending Live Events and Humanities Journalism. An affiliate of Arizona State University. A not-for-profit. publishes original daily journalism syndicated to 189 media outlets worldwide. At a time when our country’s public sphere is narrow and polarized, Zócalo seeks to be a welcoming intellectual space where individuals and communities can tackle fundamental questions in an accessible, nonpartisan, and broad-minded spirit. committed to translating ideas to broad audiences and to engaging a new, young, and diverse generation in the public square.
NEBULA: NASA's Cloud Computing Platform Finally, a way to manage research-class computing capacity, with the ease and efficiency of the Enterprise Cloud.
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