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New Data Sources Fuel Understanding of Public Health Emergencies
Remember when Google search results were first used to predict the flu? Now, data from mobile phones, social media and even grocery scanners has been shown to be effective at identifying patterns in epidemics. Standard travel data collection methods, however, are limited and often provide outdated data. Mobile phones, on the other hand, are nearly ubiquitous, and can serve as a rich data resource. Call data, which automatically provides time and location details, can help in understanding human mobility...
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So Many Android Devices. Too Few Updates.
Only 25 percent of Android handsets have Jelly Bean installed, according to developer.android.com. But nearly ten months after its initial release, shouldn't that adoption figure for Google's latest and most secure Android OS be much higher, especially given all the malware now targeting Androids? Like most things it's complicated. Read More »
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Sssh! DataWell’s Clear-Cut Priority Is the Protection of Confidentiality
Everywhere people are, be it out shopping in a supermarket or sitting at home online, they are adding information to their digital footprint – which feeds into what is known as Big Data and so enables them to be traced. The use of Big Data can be beneficial to society, particularly in terms of health – which is why Gary Leeming’s job as director of informatics for the Greater Manchester Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) is to source and use the digital health footprints of patients both their for own benefit and that of clinicians...
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Ushahidi: The African Software Platform Helping Victims In Global Emergencies
During a natural disaster or in the midst of civil violence, the immediate need for those caught up in the situation is to escape and find a safe haven. But oftentimes in such chaos, information is difficult to come by and unreliable. Read More »
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White House Petition On Legalizing Unlocking Of Mobile Phones Tries To Pass 100,000 Signature Threshold
Last month, we wrote about how the White House had bumped up the number of signatures it requires to get on "We the People..." petitions from 25,000 to 100,000 before it is "required" to respond [...]. Around the same time, we also talked about how unlocking your mobile phone, [...]was switching from being legal to being illegal, thanks to the Librarian of Congress choosing not to renew an exemption to the DMCA's anti-circumvention rules... Read More »
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Why Southeast Asia Should Embrace the Open Source Movement
In the last five years, Southeast Asia has grown to become a big consumer of modern web technologies to create digital products and services. More and more tech companies from the US are opening offices here and many with the goal to build engineering and development offices for their regional needs.
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World Bank Open Knowledge Repository Introduces Mobile-Friendly Design
In keeping up with the rapid growth in mobile usage worldwide, the World Bank just relaunched the Open Knowledge Repository (OKR)—its open access portal to its publications and research—on an upgraded platform specifically optimized for mobile use. Read More »
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