Data and the city – accessibility and openness. a cybersalon paper on open data

This paper showcases examples of bottom–up open data and smart city applications and identifies lessons for future such efforts. Examples include Changify, a neighbourhood-based platform for residents, businesses, and companies; Open Sensors, which provides APIs to help businesses, startups, and individuals develop applications for the Internet of Things; and Cybersalon’s Hackney Treasures. a location-based mobile app that uses Wikipedia entries geolocated in Hackney borough to map notable local residents. Other experiments with sensors and open data by Cybersalon members include Ilze Black and Nanda Khaorapapong's The Breather, a "breathing" balloon that uses high-end, sophisticated sensors to make air quality visible; and James Moulding's AirPublic, which measures pollution levels. Based on Cybersalon's experience to date, getting data to the people is difficult, circuitous, and slow, requiring an intricate process of leadership, public relations, and perseverance. Although there are myriad tools and initiatives, there is no one solution for the actual transfer of that data

Exposure to television crime shows and crime learning behaviours among juvenile delinquents in Pakistan

Certain media portrayals have been massively condemned for contributing to crimes by glamorizing and publicizing criminal acts. Television Crime Shows can be categorised among those medial productions. Crime and its happening with detailed procedural steps are few risky contents of television crime shows. This exposure may affect the viewers through observations of risky behaviours. One of the possible risk factor is crime learning intuition, which might be offered by these shows. Television crime shows are very popular among different segments of society. Specially, youngsters are very keen to watch crime, thrill, and action. On the other hand, Juvenile delinquency is a serious problem worldwide and affecting the social systems at large. This research focuses on the risky behaviours of adolescents (later Juvenile Delinquents) who are exposed to crime shows on television, which may have resulted for them to learn crime methods. The notions of observational learning referring Social Learning Theory have been espoused in this research. Given the phenomenon, this research effort was conducted in Pakistan having juvenile delinquents as informants. Data was collected through in-depth interviews with 12 convicted and under-trial juvenile delinquents; detained at borstal institute and juvenile jail Faisalabad Pakistan. Data was organized and then analysed through thematic analysis using NVivo11 Plus software. It emerged that friends have been the major crime learning sources of juvenile delinquents with few family exceptions. However, television crime shows were found to be a contributory source in crime learning behaviours of informants. Furthermore, CID crime show appeared as most popular crime show. The main motives in watching TV crime shows were entertainment, information, and learning. There were few prosocial effects as well but dangerous effects were more communal. In a nutshell, exposure to television crime shows emerged with serious concerns referring juvenile delinquency in Pakistan

Planning and Drought

TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: Drought: The Problem.............................................. 1 Water Impacts ............................................................................... 2 Public Health Impacts ......................................................... 4 Environmental Impacts ..................................................... 5 Built Environment Impacts................................................ 6 Secondary Hazards ......................................................... 9 Economic Impacts ................................................................... 10 Drought as a Challenge for Planners .......................................... 13 Chapter 2: Drought: The Knowledge Base ................................................... 15 Spatial and Seasonal Patterns of Drought ................................................................ 16 Drought and Climate Changes .................................................................................. 19 Tracking Drought: Tools and Resources ................................................................... 20 Using the Drought Resources Toolbox...................................................................... 2

The Trail, 2011-10-07

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Is There a Global Digital Labor Culture? : Marginalization of Work, Global Inequalities, and Coloniality.

International audienceDigital labor designates platform-based algorithm-mediated tasks performed by human users of websites and apps. It concerns on-demand services such as Uber, micro-work portals such as Amazon Mechanical Turk, as well as data extraction via connected devices or social media such as Facebook. Digital labor studies have so far mainly focused on US and Europe. A new breed of research projects aims to correct this bias by intersecting labor, media, post-colonial, and subaltern studies, and tackle developing and emerging countries where the rise of digital labor accompanies low rates of formal employment. Newly available evidence offers insights into dynamics of social exclusion and exploitation through the outsourcing of online tasks to non-Western countries. The last part of the article discusses the extent to which this vast click farm economy predicated on value and data transfer from the Global South to the North can be construed as a " neocolonial " system

Living and Learning with New Media

This report summarizes the results of an ambitious three-year ethnographic study, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings—at home, in after school programs, and in online spaces. It offers a condensed version of a longer treatment provided in the book Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (MIT Press, 2009). The authors present empirical data on new media in the lives of American youth in order to reflect upon the relationship between new media and learning. In one of the largest qualitative and ethnographic studies of American youth culture, the authors view the relationship of youth and new media not simply in terms of technology trends but situated within the broader structural conditions of childhood and the negotiations with adults that frame the experience of youth in the United States.The book that this report summarizes was written as a collaborative effort by members of the Digital Youth Project, a three-year research effort funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California.John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Reports on Digital Media and Learnin