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Who Builds, Who Bears: Gender, Design, and the Architecture of Technology-Facilitated Violence
The relationship between technology and society has never been one of passive adoption. Every technological object carries assumptions about...
Unevenly Distributed Resilience
This is the fourth in a series of companion pieces that offer insights from the synthesis report. The authors of the series attempt to go “beyond the buzz” to lay out what we actually know about Big Data’s existing utility for disaster science and for building practical resilience.
Big Data and Disability, Part 1
This is the first in a series of blog posts on our ongoing work exploring the applications and implications of Big Data and disability. This serves as an initial scoping of how Big Data can contribute to various research areas related to disability. This will form the basis of a White Paper (forthcoming) exploring the ability of the Big Data ecosystem to monitor and understand the state of research about persons with disabilities and their environments.
Leveraging the Crowd: How People can Contribute to Disaster Management
This is the third in a series of companion pieces that offer insights from the synthesis report. The authors of the series attempt to go “beyond the buzz” to lay out what we actually know about Big Data’s existing utility for disaster science and for building practical resilience.
Urban Identity and the Fragility-Resilience Double Helix
This is the first in our series of blog posts on our ongoing work on urban fragility and resilience.
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Watch the Global Festival of Ideas for Sustainable Development Sessions Online, March 1-3
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Register now for our next Professional Training Workshop “Leveraging Big Data for Sustainable Development” at MIT Media Lab on March 27-31, in partnership with UNSSC
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Last Call for Registration: Join Data-Pop Alliance at the Global Festival of Ideas!
Last Call for Registration: Global Festival of
Data-Pop Alliance launches its Global Professional Training Program in Bogotá!
Nov 29 – Dec 2, 2016
Following a pilot event at MIT Media
Save the Date: Announcing the Global Festival of Ideas for Sustainable Development
Global Festival of Ideas for Sustainable Development
Save the Date: The Ethics of Algorithms | Tuesday, December 6, 6:30pm
Save the Date: The Ethics of Algorithms