Marta Poblet
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Author Archives: serendipolis
Spread the word: the value of local information in disaster response
By Marta Poblet and Keera Pullman As dozens of bushfires continue to burn across the country (not least in New South Wales) many Australians find themselves unable to return home while many others have no home to return to. While … Continue reading
Posted in crisis mapping, crowdsourcing, mobile technologies
Tagged Australia, bushfires, disaster response, technology
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Spanish politics: the anything goes culture
My most admired José Juan Toharia—the renowned sociologist who co-founded Cuadernos para el Dialogo back in 1962 and now presides public opinion research firm Metroscopia—has been providing a series of data-driven analysis on perceptions of Catalonia and Spain since the … Continue reading
Catalonia: independent but united with Europe?
Marta Poblet and Pompeu Casanovas In the biggest rally for Catalan independence ever, an estimated crowd of 1.5 million people flooded the city of Barcelona with red-and-yellow striped flags on Catalonia’s national day, the Diada. Tax laws and lack of … Continue reading
Posted in Law, Uncategorized
Tagged asymmetric federalism, Catalonia, Diada, European Union, independence
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Minimal toys, bikes, and appropriate technologies
Children at play are fascinating to observe. It’s not only that “their games should be deemed as their most serious actions”, as Montaigne famously wrote, but they are the finest examples of serendipity at work. All of a sudden, sticky … Continue reading
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the ethics of responsibility
On May 29, King & Wood Mallesons, the International Law Association (Victoria Chapter) and the Australian Red Cross organized an event on “The Responsibility to Protect: Where to from here?” featuring presentations from leading R2P experts Gareth Evans, Damien Kingsbury … Continue reading
Posted in Human rights, Law, Uncategorized
Tagged Emmanuel Levinas, ethics, R2P, Responsibility to Protect, UN
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Crowdsourced crisis mapping: how it works and why it matters
Marta Poblet and Pompeu Casanovas Web 2.0 tools and mobile technologies have lowered the barriers not just for people to access the internet but to create and share content. Through open-source, collaborative programs such as wikis, the creation and distribution … Continue reading
Posted in crisis mapping, crowdsourcing, political crowdsourcing
Tagged citizens participation, crowdsourcing
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Endeavour, Venus, and citizen science
This week, the magnificent Australian-built replica HMB Endeavour could be visited at the Waterfront City Marina in Melbourne. On 26 August 1768, the real HMB Endeavour, commanded by Lieutenant James Cook, sailed from Plymouth to the South Pacific Ocean. The aim … Continue reading
Posted in citizens science, crowdsourcing
Tagged HMB Endeavour, James Cook, Venus transit
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Tagging Constitutions Online: Constitution Day in Barcelona
On Saturday morning, November 12, a group of 70 law students convened in one of the rooms of the UAB Law School to participate in Constitution Day, an international event organized by the Program on Liberation Technology at Stanford’s Center … Continue reading
Posted in crowdsourcing, political crowdsourcing
Tagged Constitution, Constitution Explorer, Spain
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Argument mapping: visualizing large-scale deliberations
Social media provide unique spaces for collaborative discussions, but we all have experienced at some point how hard it can be getting the relevant content from these long threats and sub-threats of comments. Mark Klein, a computer scientist at the … Continue reading
We the Crowd? Constitutional Reform 2.0
What do the spring in Iceland and in Southern Mediterranean latitudes have in common? Maybe in Iceland it comes slowly later in the solstice, as stated in Ron Bayes’ poem, but in both latitudes it has certainly keened the spirits … Continue reading
Posted in crowdsourcing, Uncategorized, Ushahidi
Tagged constitutional reform, crowdsourcing, Egypt, election observation, Morocco, Tunisia
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