Date archives "March 2009"

ICTlogy » e-STAS 2009 (VII). Round Table: John LeSieur, Vivek Vaidyanathan, Raul Zambrano

An interesting round table discussion from the e-STAS: Symposium on Technologies for Social Action held in Málaga, Spain, on March 26-27th, 2009, posted on the blog of Ismael Peña-López. Read the whole post here  to see the Q&A Round Table, Conducted By Ismael Peña-López, Open University Of Catalonia John LeSieur, People CD It’s out of question… Continue reading

Barcelona discussion on the role of the new hybrid centres for art, science and technology

Art, science and technology are intertwined in new hybrid centres, in light of the “new culture” generated by the network society. This is the idea which will be discussed in “Networks, Nodes and Bridges”, part of the Now Festival which takes place this week in the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB). At 19:00… Continue reading

Freeing Yoga from both tradition and enclosure

It’s … a collective, mutable practice that has neither a specific point of origin nor a single, static form. In essence, then, it’s owned by everyone who practices yoga, and it’s also owned by no one. And it’s certainly not owned by Beverly Hills Bikram Choudhury or 200 cataloguing experts in India. The above quote… Continue reading

Transforming the Relationship Between Citizens and Government: Making Content Findable Online

Vanessa Fox writes today on O’Reilly Radar: “The most important feature government web sites can add isn’t really feature at all. But it would absolutely transform the relationship between citizens and government and make an amazing array of public data available. What’s this magic feature? Make government web sites search engine friendly.” Read the full,… Continue reading

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Announces Availability of Schedule and Route Data

DIYcity has posted: WMATA just announced the availability of its schedule and route information on its website: http://www.wmata.com/rider_tools/developer_resources.cfm The Metro webite explains on a page called Developer Resources: Metro has resources available for developers to build their own mobile apps. Download our official schedule data in the open Google Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) or get… Continue reading

HEALTHCAMP PHILADELPHIA 2009

From the HealthCamp Philadelphia website WHAT IS IT? HealthCamp is a new kind of healthcare conference, an “un-conference”, where participants make the agenda. HealthCamp is about putting Web technologies, open standards, mobile and social media, and process innovation to work for better healthcare and health technology. It brings health providers, health industry experts and technology… Continue reading