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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- To defuse political violence across US, conflict mediators apply lessons from gang disputes and foreign elections
- From Athens to the Blockchain: Oracles for Digital Democracy
- The Governance of Blockchain Dispute Resolution
- The Catalan tsunami: encrypting swarm intelligence
- Linked democracy: Foundations, Tools, and Applications
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Author Archives: serendipolis
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
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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