Big Data and the City
This special issue of Built Environment responds to the latest digital revolution, setting out the state of the art of the new technologies around so-called Big Data, critically examining the … Continue reading
Understanding Social Exclusion in Indonesia
This study analyses the reports that resulted from 68 Theory of Change workshops held with NGO and CSO partners as part of the Peduli program. This program addresses the social … Continue reading
The City as Platform – How Digital Networks are Changing Urban Life and Governance
Free ebook – The 2015 Aspen Institute Roundtable on Information Technology gathered 31 distinguished leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs in Aspen Colorado to discuss how digital networks are changing urban life … Continue reading
The Global Impact of Open Data
Free ebook – Open data has spurred economic innovation, social transformation, and fresh forms of political and government accountability in recent years, but few people understand how open data works. This … Continue reading
Mapping Grassroots: Geodata and the structure of community-led open environmental science
Using balloons and kites to launch cameras as “community satellites”, grassroots mappers around the world have engaged in local-level, activist remote sensing — building upon the critical cartography and participatory … Continue reading
Cities, Violence and Order
How will security in cities be understood in the future? For whom will it be provided? What are the ways by which urban security provision will be governed? And, what … Continue reading
The price of connection: ‘surveillance capitalism’
The problem is not so much someone reading my emails, but the collection of metadata. In any case, if the mere existence of such power contradicts liberty, why were we … Continue reading
Rethink, Retool, Reboot: Technology as if people and planet mattered
Rethink, Retool, Reboot presents the evidence and analysis that informs Practical Action’s organisational mission to create a world with Technology Justice: where technology and innovation is used to end poverty … Continue reading
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