Crowdsensing: mobile data and predictive algorithms
In Pakistan, mobile data has helped the authorities predict where an epidemic will break out: Researchers working for the Pakistani government developed an earl...
Tag: crisis
Ushahidi: realtime social media lessons from crises (and a model for slow news?)
Yesterday, at the Legatum Institiute‘s Next Generation Philanthropy Forum I got to meet Juliana Rotich, programme director at one of the most interesting ...
How we blew up the economy
Thinking about banking, finance, the web and innovation in general at the moment and came across this rather fine explanatioin of the credit crisis from Jonatha...