iilab

04/10/2017

Die sozialen Auswirkungen von Innovation und Technologie fördern Wir laden euch herzlich zu unserem nächsten BizBreakfast ein, das am 4.10.2017 um 8.30 Uhr im InfraLab Berlin stattfindet. Bei Kaffee und Croissants könnt Ihr netzwerken und vor allem iilab kennenlernen. iilab steht für 'information in...

14/09/2017

BE UPDATE! Why decentralised and asynchronous simply is the best architecture.

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01/09/2017

Thought leadership from Alix on diversity as a core competency on The Engine Room blog

Several weeks ago, I was reading about how companies are beginning to use artificial intelligence to help hire for diversity. My first thought was, “yikes.”My second thought was, “what do the…

21/06/2016

Important manual from Tactical Tech considering safety of activists comprehensively

We're excited to announce our new publication: HOLISTIC SECURITY: A strategy manual to help human rights defenders maintain their well-being in action.

15/06/2016

6 Key Ways Design Thinkers Approach Problems via Co.Design

How design thinkers think.

14/06/2016

How to use simple software tools to go through documents: A Poor Journalist's Text Mining Toolkit - from Friedrich Lindenberg

How can journalists search and analyze collections of documents on their own computers with simple tools? At last weekend's DataHarvest, we ran a workshop trying to answer that question. This write-up...

10/06/2016

I was having lunch with a couple of Haskell programmers the other day and the subject of the ML family came up. I’ve been writing a lot of ML lately and mentioned that I thought *ML was well worth learning...

03/06/2016

Fishermen Using Mobile Phones for Market Prices is the Largest Lie in ICT4D via Larry Wentz

A stinging critique of the classic ICT4D story that fishermen use mobile phones to find the best market prices for their catch.

26/05/2016

Technology, Data Sharing & Infrastructure for Tech-Enabled Disaster Management by Julian Carver cc resurgence

Guest Post by Julian Carver Julian Carver was the acting Chief Information Officer at the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) until June 2012. From March 2013 – April 2015 he led the Canterbury...

25/05/2016

The Value of User Research by developmentseed
http://bit.ly/1OVMlXq

No matter the timeline, even a little bit of research goes a long way.

20/05/2016

Everything we know of NSA and Five Eyes malware via Nex ~ Claudio http://bit.ly/1NBtX5D

Note: all the information contained in this essay are extracted from documents that have already been previously publish…

02/05/2016

Global shipping in a narrated interactive map via Nathan Yau cc Kat Austen InfluenceMapping

We’ve seen maps for global shipping routes before, but this project — Ship Map — by Kiln and the UCL Energy Institute makes the exploration more interactive and explanatory.