Canada’s International Development Research Center and Harvard’s Berkman Center are convening a conversation today and tomorrow at Harvard on the future of information and communication… Read More »Harvard Forum: ICT and gender
Google’s Mathew Gray has been playing with data sets for a long time. He’s the author of the world’s first known web spider, and he’s… Read More »Google Books and big data
Aron Pilhofer and Jeremy Ashkenas introduce DocumentCloud, a powerful new tool for journalists, bloggers and activists at IBM’s Transparent Text symposium. On the abstract level,… Read More »DocumentCloud – improving search for journalists
Ellen Miller, the founder of the Sunlight Foundation, wants to redefine public information as online information. To have government accountability, we need “information for media… Read More »Sunlight Foundation’s Ellen Miller at Transparent Text
Beth Noveck, formerly of New York Law School, is now the deputy CTO in the Obama administration in charge of the Open Government initiative. Explaning… Read More »Open Government: Beth Noveck at Transparent Text
Many of the conversations at the Berkman Center orbit the topic of technological determinism. While no one will actually admit to being a technological determinist,… Read More »Building the future of translation, online