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Vote now for your favorite app in NASA International Space Apps Challenge 2013

Vote now for your favorite app in NASA International Space Apps Challenge 2013

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n April 20-21, over 9,000 people around the world participated in the known galaxy's largest mass collaboration ever - the International Space Apps Challenge. Now it's time to recognize the incredible work they have created. Visitspaceappschallenge.org to vote for the People's Choice award winner, and check back later this month to find our which projects our judges have choosen as global winners.

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D C on May 14, 2013

Scientists who engage with society perform better academically

Scientists who engage with society perform better academically

Today, most scientific institutions acknowledge the importance of opening the so-called "ivory tower" of academic research through popularization, industrial innovation or teaching. However, little is known about the actual openness of scientific institutions and how their proclaimed priorities translate into concrete measures. This paper helps getting an idea on the actual practices [sic...English is not the first language of these authors] by studying three key points: the proportion of more...

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D C on May 14, 2013

Second Open Government Summit hosted by Zaizi Challenges UK public sector to put users at the center of the IT universe

Second Open Government Summit hosted by Zaizi Challenges UK public sector to put users at the center of the IT universe

opengov2013.zaizi.com –

The second Open Gov Summit took place in April 25th at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, in the heart of Westminster. London-based open source consultancy Zaizi hosted the fully-booked Summit, which attracted IT professionals from central and local government and third sector organisations. The Summit revealed encouraging progress for open source in the public sector, helped by the government’s decision to adopt open standards last November. This year’s debate also emphasised the more...

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D C on May 14, 2013

Information Security in Nigeria

Information Security in Nigeria

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It's time to rethink CyberSecurity Nigeria ... IT professionals cannot "stand aside and look" while cyber bandits attack the social and economic system for criminal purposes. The Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) and the Computer Professionals (Registration Council of Nigeria) will be holding a one day workshop on Cyber Crimes, Cyber Threats, Cyber Security and Computer Misuse at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. Date: Wednesday 12th June, 2013. Time: 9:00am. More details: more...

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Jidaw List on May 13, 2013

Subjective Probabilities, Ratings, Handicappers, and Open Access Online Scientific Literature

Subjective Probabilities, Ratings, Handicappers, and Open Access Online Scientific Literature

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In a previous post I proposed an iterative process that can be used sequentially add information to the rating of research proposals, providing quantitative results. This post extends that method to show how information on the source of the proposal and the source of the review can be used to improve the results. It also provides a measure of the information provided by the review at each stage. The method is extended to rating open access online scientific publications and non-peer more...

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John Daly on May 11, 2013

OxiCash Money Transfer launches as India's 1st RBI-approved mobile wallet for unbanked

mobilepaymentstoday.com –

India's payments solutions provider Oxigen unveiled its instant money transfer service, OxiCash. This "mobile wallet" enables India's unbanked population to transfer money with ease to any bank account and receive money into their wallet at any time. The service will benefit the underprivileged segment of India's population who have been unable to conduct money transfers due to the lack of a bank account, said Oxigen in a news release. Oxigen has estimated that 60 percent of India's 1.2 more...

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D C on May 9, 2013

ICT in the classroom: Namibian teachers share their experience

ICT in the classroom: Namibian teachers share their experience

elearning-africa.com –

Education has been a top priority in Namibia for some time now. The government has been directing a lot of resources and expertise into establishing effective systems and policies that will have a positive impact in classrooms and on students. Information and communication technologies have been a very important part of this process, and classrooms are benefiting from better technology and a more learner-centric education system. The eLearning Africa News Service spoke with Dr Maggy Beukes- more...

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Grégory Vespasien on May 8, 2013

International privacy organisations: Don't let corporations strip citizens of their right to privacy

International privacy organisations: Don't let corporations strip citizens of their right to privacy

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This report features new analysis by privacy experts of proposed amendments to the draft Data Protection Regulation. It reveals how many of these amendments threaten to critically undermine the privacy of EU consumers and citizens. Together, the amendments are an effort to strip EU citizens 'naked' by making it almost impossible for them to control who sees their personal information and even how it is used. Over 3,000 amendments to the Regulation are currently being considered by the LIBE more...

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D C on May 8, 2013

2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report from Microsoft

2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report from Microsoft

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This data covers law enforcement requests and/or court orders Microsoft received in calendar year 2012 related to our online and cloud services – including, for example, Hotmail/Outlook.com, SkyDrive, Xbox LIVE, Microsoft Account, Messenger and Office 365. Skype data is included, but reported separately. As noted in the data table in 2012, Microsoft and Skype received a total of 75,378 law enforcement requests. Those requests potentially impacted 137,424 accounts. While it is not possible to more...

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D C on May 8, 2013

How can innovation improve access to quality learning?

How can innovation improve access to quality learning?

educationandtransition.org –

Last week, the Government of Denmark and UNICEF hosted the interactive discussion ‘Breaking barriers: Innovative partnerships creating exponential change in access to quality learning’. Moderated by journalist Femi Oke, the lively discussion brought together government representatives, leaders from the private sector, civil society and others to explore how innovations can surmount barriers for children in fulfilling their right to access to a quality education and, more importantly, quality more...

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Taleen Vartan on May 6, 2013

Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 2013

Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 2013

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The international Conference for e-Democracy and Open Government brings together e-democracy, e-participation and open government specialists working in academia, politics, government and business to critically analyse the innovations, issues, ideas and challenges in the networked societies of the digital age. The CeDEM represents a continuation and development of the E-democracy conference initiated in 2007. The Centre for E-Governance at the Danube University Krems has been organising more...

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D C on May 6, 2013

Measuring knowledge management: Survey report for the KM4Dev innovation fund

This survey asked respondents to assess the level of monitoring and evaluation of knowledge management and knowledge brokering in their organisation. Only 20% of respondents indicated that their organisation had good or strong monitoring and evaluation systems in place for knowledge management, with 67% assessing their processes as weak or non-existent. Similarly for knowledge brokering, only 19% felt their organisation had good or strong monitoring and evaluation systems in place for knowledge more...

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D C on May 6, 2013

Open data and the charity sector: A perfect fit

Open data and the charity sector: A perfect fit

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Government officials, charity leaders and senior figures from the open data movement said on Monday that the UK must foster an environment of collaboration and transparency in order to share best practices from the public and private sectors with nonprofit organisations. Third sector has for too long been misread as third place when it comes to nonprofits. Data has been widely touted as the future of the public and private sectors but when it comes to the adoption of big data initiatives, it is more...

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D C on May 6, 2013

NASA Open Government Plan

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The key principles of Open Government – participation, collaboration and transparency - have been embedded in NASA operations for more than 50 years. As NASA continues to implement the Open Government Directive, we have developed version 2.0 of our Open Government Plan to serve as a model – not a manual – for what a more open NASA might look like today. Our Plan collects the many new activities that exemplify the evolution of openness in NASA’s policy, technology and culture – and provides more...

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D C on May 2, 2013

Volunteer An Asset For The World

Heeals Water ,Sanitation Hygiene & Girl Education#volunteer india heeals,

volunteerheeals.blogspot.in –

Volunteering for some work for helping somebody from the time immemorial is considered to be as the work of God , and a volunteer a messenger of the god According to Great Mahatma Gandhi he said that , " if you feel very sad or very lonely or depressed , help a weeping child to make him or her happy, help a poor mother , help a poor man , the feeling the happiness you will get is above all else and you will proud of your self ".

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Gaurav Kashyap on May 2, 2013

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