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Appiro Testifies Before Congress on Crowdsourcing, Innovation and Prizes...
Mr. Singh wearing google glass while testifying. As Congress moves forward with integrating more prizes and challenges for crowdsourcing scientific research, one expert from Silicon Valley raises...
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Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values
Each day, humans upload more than 500 million photographs documenting every aspect of their lives. But while striking, this statistic pales in comparison to the vast quantity of information created not...
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EVENT: New Terrorism Meets New Media
Hamas Advertising on Twitter. Source: Weimann, Gabi 2014 The Internet proves to be a useful instrument for modern terrorists who use it for a wide range of purposes – from recruitment, radicalization...
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DEBRIEF: Environmental Information – The Roles of Expert and the Public
This is a cross-blog post written by Muki Haklay, Professor of Geographic Information Science in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London and Director...
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INFOGRAPHIC: Recruiting Lone Wolves Online
Gabriel Weimann, a Middle East Scholar at the Wilson Center, just finished a report on New Terrorism Meets New Media examining how Al-Qaeda, its affiliates and other terrorist organizations have moved...
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Startup Government Challenge Festival
Handup, is a “tech startup with a social mission” according to their website. The startup partners with homeless organizations in San Francisco to deliver resources to homeless and at risk people in...
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SciCast, Crowdsourcing Science and Technology Forecasting For Policy
SciCast is a crowdsourced forecasting platform for science and technology run by George Mason University. It is based on the idea that the collective wisdom of an informed and diverse group is often a...
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CollaborativeScience.org: Sustaining Ecological Communities Through Citizen...
Virginia Master Naturalists conducting stream water quality monitoring. In any endeavor, there can be a tradeoff between intimacy and impact. The same is true for science in general and citizen science...
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How Terrorists Use Social Media: A Timeline
The Wilson Center’s Commons Lab just published an interactive timeline, using TimelineJS by the Knight Lab, on social media and terrorism with the assistance of scholar Gabriel Weimann and other...
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Potential Benefits and Challenges of Crowdfunding in Mexico
This is a guest post by the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Borrowing from formal banking institutions in Mexico requires high securities and involves high...
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Privacy and Surveillance in the Digital Age
In light of the anniversary of the Snowden leaks the Wilson Center held a public event on Surveillance, Security and Trust. It’s becoming clear that our regulatory frameworks are severely outdated in...
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EVENT: Data Journalism and Policymaking: A Changing Landscape
Data Handbook from The Guardian What is data journalism? Why does it matter? How has the maturing field of data science changed the direction of journalism and global investigative reporting? Our...
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Monitoring Arms Control Compliance With Web Intelligence
Traditional monitoring of arms control treaties, agreements, and commitments has required the use of National Technical Means (NTM)—large satellites, phased array radars, and other technological...
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EVENT: National Plan for Civil Earth Observations
Thursday, September 4th, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, 6th Floor Boardroom In July 2014, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. Group on Earth Observations (USGEO) released the...
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An Exploratory Study on Barriers
Barriers and Accelerators to Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science in Federal Agencies: An Exploratory Study Draft Summary for Discussion — September 5, 2014 The Commons Lab within the Wilson Center’s...
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UN Big Data Climate Challenge Winners
What happens when you bring together the forces of innovation, big data and climate change? The following amazing winners of the United Nations “Big Data Climate Challenge.” As the barriers to...
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NASA Launches New Citizen Science Website
NASASolve debuted last month as a “one-stop-shop” for prizes and challenges that are seeking contributions from people like you. But don’t worry, you need not be a rocket scientist to apply. The...
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EVENT: Tracking a Changing Climate with Citizen Science
Tuesday, November 18th 2014, 2:00-4:30pm, 6th Floor Auditorium The vision for the U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA) includes creating a set of of indicators – measures of key physical,...
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Macon Money: A serious game for civic engagement
In 2011, residents of Macon, Georgia received over $65,000 in free local currency—with a catch. This money was locked in bonds redeemable for an unknown value between $10 and $100. Prior to...
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Reports From the Field: European Citizen Science Association
Berlin, Germany Photo Credit: Hwa Ja Goetz / Museum für Naturkunde Berlin Last week in Berlin marked the third official convening of the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) hosted by the Museum...
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