Category Archives: Reading/Benchmark

Mapping of crisis data, an example

Posted on February 14, 2009 by gregers

From an article in the German online magazine SpiegelOnline, I found a great example of “data mapping in crisis situations”. During the tragic bush fires in Australia, the association of volunteer firefighters in Victoria, CFA, published their data about the … Continue reading →

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Episurveyor

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Mari

Hey – thanks for today’s meeting. I mentioned Episurvyor, I think it’s worth a look.  Also, check out the ‘storytelling’ map used by UNICEF ..

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Epidemiology 2.0

Posted on January 23, 2009 by gregers

I spent some initial thoughts on the utilization of semantic technologies for health-related web services, a topic I consider very interesting. I have always been fascinated by projects mining data based on semantic algorithms, such as We Feel Fine (correlating … Continue reading →

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Sadvertising

Posted on March 3, 2007 by Anne Luotonen

In Matkalla -blog (containing usability issues and more) there is an interesting post about advertisement that seeks to tap into the deeper and not solely upbeat feelings of the consumer. The post is in Finnish but the quotes are in … Continue reading →

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Event: Practical Design for Social Action

Posted on February 22, 2007 by Andrea Botero

I found this information about a workshop in the UK in May 15th organizers are PRADSA (Practical Design for Social Action) and the topic is “Designing the Techniques and Tools that Shape the Future – Social and Technical Challenges ”, … Continue reading →

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Developing a Brief / wed 07.02.07 4pm 3rd floor meeting room

Posted on February 6, 2007 by Andrea Botero

We are meeting 07.02.07 to start collecting ideas for developing the brief. This is the next step and second deliverable of the project: Your own brief. Turo will introduce some of his experinces in making a brief for media/advertisement settings. … Continue reading →

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web 2.0 and human rights, views from a professional activist

Posted on February 1, 2007 by Andrea Botero

During the past LIFT conference in Geneve, Amnesty international had a “Provocation about web 2.0 and human rights” presented by Helen Suarez and Dan McQuillan (webmaster of AI) the video is in Google Video. In there they discuss the potentials … Continue reading →

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Bed-time reading

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Andrea Botero

3 suggestions for assorted inspiration. It would be nice if you can collect more as comments to this post. Design Like You Give a Damn ISBN 1-933045-25-6 Ed by Architecture for Humanity A compendium of innovative architectural projects from around … Continue reading →

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