Marta Poblet
Professor at RMIT University. Researcher at RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub. Law, technology, innovation, open science, open democracy. Geocurious.
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Author Archives: serendipolis
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
Posted in Law, Politics, Uncategorized
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
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
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