Marta Poblet
Associate Professor at RMIT University. Researcher at the UAB Institute of Law and Technology. Law, technology, innovation, open science, open democracy. Geocurious.
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Microtasking: Redefining crowdsourcing practices in emergency management
Check out my paper with Mari Fitzpatrick on crowdsourcing practices in emergency management at https://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=815917622185255;res=IELHSS Abstract This paper examines the roles, types and forms of virtual microtasking for emergency information management in order to better understand collective intelligence mechanisms and … Continue reading
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What are the benefits of sharing grant data openly?
Originally posted on Australasian Open Access Strategy Group:
Marta Poblet and Amir Aryani talk about the importance of open sharing of grant data – a topic not often brought into the OA debate Contacts on twitter: @mpoblet @amir_at_ands Every year, the Australian…
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Give me location data, and I will move the world
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Behind the success of the new wave of location based mobile apps taking hold around the world is digital mapping. Location data is core to popular ride-sharing services … Continue reading
El moment constitucional
Catalunya viu un moment constitucional sense precedents, derivat d’un procés polític inèdit i transitat d’incògnites. Un temps únic d’efervescència d’iniciatives, projectes i debats sobre allò que s’esdevé, potser, una vegada (o menys) per generació: com fer una nova constitució. Arreu, … Continue reading
Posted in Law, political crowdsourcing, Uncategorized
Tagged Constitució catalana, crowdsourcing
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We the crowd? Constitution making 2.0
This is an update of the post I wrote on crowdsourced constitutional reform in 2011. Constitution-making can be broadly defined as a set of activities intended to produce a constitution, the highest law of a state. To the UN Rule … Continue reading
Posted in Law, political crowdsourcing, social media
Tagged Constitution, participatory processes
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Catalonia in Europe: who will play the game?
The future relationship with the EU is a core issue in today’s debate about the independence of Catalonia. The slogan of the 2012 rally in Barcelona was “Catalonia, next state of Europe”, echoing the majoritarian desire within the independentist movement … Continue reading
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Tagged Catalonia, Europe, European Union, independence
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Leveraging Big Data in disasters: Working around the clock in Philippines
[Cross posted at the Money, Data, and Privacy blog] Big data from social media is increasingly used in disaster management procedures. The speed at which big social data feeds travel across the networks has already been leveraged at the early … Continue reading
Crowdfunding Culture in Catalonia: The Revival of Civil Society?
[Updated version appeared in the Journal of Catalan Intellectual History, vol. 7, 2014] When Antoni Gaudi took over the Sagrada Familia project in 1883, the initially planned neo-Gothic church—which had come into existence by a private initiative in 1860—steadily transformed … Continue reading
On algorithms and croquettes: hashtag battles in Twitter politics
On 11 September 2013, Catalonia’s national day, approximately 1,600,000 Catalans joined hands along Catalonia’s coastline to form “The Catalan Way towards Independence” a 400-kilometre (250-mile) human chain. The Catalan Way was inspired in the 1989 Baltic Way chain that called … Continue reading
