This week we will learn about user generated content (UGC), citizen science, crowdsourcing & volunteered geographic information (VGI). We will also discuss divergent views on data humanitarianism.
Healthy City's Community Research Lab (CRL) shares best practices and methods for community-based organizations interested in supporting their strategies with research that combines community knowledge + Healthy City technology. The CRL is a resource for collaborating, networking, learning, and innovating with community-based organizations to lead and sustain research for social change. Using the Community Based Participatory Action Research framework, we partner with organizations to develop, implement, and disseminate community research projects, tools, and workshops.
Earlier this year, we received a two-year grant to provide our CRL Workshop series throughout California! In these workshops, we provide step-by-step guidance on topics that cover:
• how to develop research questions
• how to create effective community maps
• how to facilitate participatory mapping
• how to share maps and data with local community members
The workshops also include:
• facilitated activities training participants how to collect community feedback for advocacy, organizing and other projects
• sessions on how to develop strategies where community members can give input to telling their community’s story.
We are currently preparing to launch the first round of the workshop series in: Sacramento, Central Valley, and the Inland Empire!
For my final year project I used data analysis techniques to investigate user behavior pattern recognition in respect of similar interests and culture versus offline geographical location. This was an out-of-the-box topic, which I selected due to my love on Data Analysis, in respect of the Social Network Analysis in the Internet era.
Healthy City's Community Research Lab (CRL) shares best practices and methods for community-based organizations interested in supporting their strategies with research that combines community knowledge + Healthy City technology. The CRL is a resource for collaborating, networking, learning, and innovating with community-based organizations to lead and sustain research for social change. Using the Community Based Participatory Action Research framework, we partner with organizations to develop, implement, and disseminate community research projects, tools, and workshops.
Earlier this year, we received a two-year grant to provide our CRL Workshop series throughout California! In these workshops, we provide step-by-step guidance on topics that cover:
• how to develop research questions
• how to create effective community maps
• how to facilitate participatory mapping
• how to share maps and data with local community members
The workshops also include:
• facilitated activities training participants how to collect community feedback for advocacy, organizing and other projects
• sessions on how to develop strategies where community members can give input to telling their community’s story.
We are currently preparing to launch the first round of the workshop series in: Sacramento, Central Valley, and the Inland Empire!
For my final year project I used data analysis techniques to investigate user behavior pattern recognition in respect of similar interests and culture versus offline geographical location. This was an out-of-the-box topic, which I selected due to my love on Data Analysis, in respect of the Social Network Analysis in the Internet era.
Cottbus Brandenburg University of Technology Lecture series on Smart RegionsCritically Assembling Data, Processes & Things: Toward and Open Smart CityJune 5, 2018
This lecture will critically focus on smart cities from a data based socio-technological assemblage approach. It is a theoretical and methodological framework that allows for an empirical examination of how smart cities are socially and technically constructed, and to study them as discursive regimes and as a large technological infrastructural systems.
The lecture will refer to the research outcomes of the ERC funded Programmable City Project led by Rob Kitchin at Maynooth University and will feature examples of empirical research conducted in Dublin and other Irish cities.
In addition, the lecture will discuss the research outcomes of the Canadian Open Smart Cities project funded by the Government of Canada GeoConnections Program. Examples will be drawn from five case studies namely about the cities of Edmonton, Guelph, Ottawa and Montreal, and the Ontario Smart Grid as well as number of international best practices. The recent Infrastructure Canada Canadian Smart City Challenge and the controversial Sidewalk Lab Waterfront Toronto project will also be discussed.
It will be argued that no two smart cities are alike although the technological solutionist and networked urbanist approaches dominate and it is suggested that these kind of smart cities may not live up to the promise of being better places to live.
In this lecture, the ideals of an Open Smart City are offered instead and in this kind of city residents, civil society, academics, and the private sector collaborate with public officials to mobilize data and technologies when warranted in an ethical, accountable and transparent way in order to govern the city as a fair, viable and livable commons that balances economic development, social progress and environmental responsibility. Although an Open Smart City does not yet exist, it will be argued that it is possible.
Conference of Irish Geographies 2018
The Earth as Our Home
Automating Homelessness May 12, 2018
The research for these studies is funded by a European Research Council Advanced Investigator award ERC-2012-AdG-323636-SOFTCITY.
If you took a Geography course over 20 years ago, you might recall the subject involving little more than memorizing the locations of continents, countries, cities, as well as climate and cultural facts. In that time, many universities have expanded their geography programs by entering the world of Geographic Information Systems, or GIS for short. In the beginning GIS was an obscure field of specialized hardware, software, and cryptic keyboard commands that allowed a skilled professional to query data to get answers to geographic-based inquiries. Queries, such as the quantity of forested acres within an area, were the beginning of the geographicbased analysis revolution that has since unfolded. But today’s leading geography programs are teaching students more than just the where, what, who, and why of our world, but also bring to the table an interdisciplinary approach to solving today’s local, regional, national, and global problems. Many of these programs are not limited to just universities, now involving the K-12 space, tapping into young people’s minds to unleash innovative ideas in what is now an interdisciplinary field. To maintain a competitive advantage in today’s world, leading countries, companies, and research organizations are embracing these new capabilities and the talent that is available in the marketplace.
Authors:
Tracey P. Lauriault, Programmable City Project, Maynooth University
Peter Mooney, Environmental Protection Agency Ireland and Department of Computer Science Maynooth University
Title:
Crowdsourcing: A Geographic Approach to Identifying Policy Opportunities and Challenges Toward Deeper Levels of Public Engagement
Presented:
The Internet, Policy and Politics Conference, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, September 25-26, 2014
See the abstract here:
http://ipp.oii.ox.ac.uk/2014/programme-2014/track-c-politics-of-engagement/community/tracey-p-lauriault-peter-mooney
Open Data Seminar
Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
D/Public Expenditure and reform, Government Buildings,
Merrion Street, Dublin 2
Conference Room 0.2, South Block
2.00pm, Wednesday 11 February 2015
Tracey P. Lauriault and Rob Kitchin
Programmable City Project, NIRSA, Maynooth University
Tracey P. Lauriault (Programmable City team)
A genealogy of open data assemblages
Abstract: Evidence informed decision making, participatory public policy, government transparency and accountability, sustainable development, and data driven journalism were the initial drivers of making public data accessible. The access work of geomaticians, researchers, librarians, community developers and journalists has recently been recast as open data that includes a different set of actors. As open data matures as a practice, its principles, definitions and guidelines have been transformed into national performance indicators such as indexes, barometers, ratings and score cards; the private sector such as Gartner, McKinsey, and Deloitte are touting open data's innovation and business opportunities; while smart city initiatives offer tools and expertise to help government sense, monitor, measure and evaluate their cities. Open data today seems to have evolved far from its original ideals, even with civil society players such as Markets for Good, Sunlight Foundation, Open Knowledge Foundation, Code for America, and many others advocating for more social approaches. This talk proposes an assemblage approach to understanding open data and provides a genealogy of its development in different contexts and places.
Bio: Tracey P. Lauriault is a Programmable City Project Postdoctoral Researcher focussing on How are digital data generated and processed about cities and their citizens? She arrives from Canada where she was a researcher with the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, at Carleton University, where she investigated Data, Infrastructures and Geographical Imaginations, spatial data infrastructures, open data and the preservation of and access to research and geomatics data; legal and policy issues associated with geospatial, administrative and civil society data; and cybercartography. She is a a member of the international Research Data Alliance Legal (RDA) Interoperability Working Group, the Natural Resources Canada Roundtable on Geomatics Legal and Policy Interest Group. She is also actively engaged in public policy research as it pertains to open data and their related infrastructures.
Civic Technologies: Research, Practice, and Open ChallengesPablo Aragón
Workshop – CSCW 2020 – October 17, 2020
Over the last years, civic technology projects have emerged around the world to advance open government and community action. Although Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) communities have shown a growing interest in researching issues around civic technologies, yet most research still focuses on projects from the Global North. The goal of this workshop is, therefore, to advance CSCW research by raising awareness for the ongoing challenges and open questions around civic technology by bridging the gap between researchers and practitioners from different regions.
The workshop will be organized around three central topics: (1) discuss how the local context and infrastructure affect the design, implementation, adoption, and maintenance of civic technology; (2) identify key elements of the configuration of trust among government, citizenry, and local organizations and how these elements change depending on the sociopolitical context where community engagement takes place; (3) discover what methods and strategies are best suited for conducting research on civic technologies in different contexts. These core topics will be covered across sessions that will initiate in-depth discussions and, thereby, stimulate collaboration between the CSCW research community and practitioners of civic technologies from both Global North and South.
Smarter Cities pillars: Internet of Things, Web of Data, Crowdsourcing
Interdependence analysis: Society ageing and Societal urbanisation
Enablement of Smarter Inclusive Cities
Exploring Research Opportunities in the Digital EraTogar Simatupang
The focus of this presentation is to specialize in the field of business sciences in areas that include entrepreneurship, finance, big data, and technology, operations and logistics, and human resources.
From Aspiration to Reality: Open Smart Cities
Open smart cities might become a reality for Canada. Globally there are a number of initiatives, programs, and practices that are open smart city like which means that it is possible to have an open, responsive and engaged city that is both socio-technologically enabled, but also one where there is receptivity to and a willingness to grow a critically informed type of technological citizenship (Feenberg). For an open smart city to exist, public officials, the private sector, scholars, civil society and residents and citizens require a definition and a guide to start the exercise of imagining what an open smart city might look like. There is much critical scholarship about the smart city and there are many counter smart city narratives, but there are few depictions of what engagement, participatory design and technological leadership might be. The few examples that do exist are project based and few are systemic. An open smart city definition and guide was therefore created by a group of stakeholders in such a way that it can be used as the basis for the design of an open smart city from the ground up, or to help actors shape or steer the course of emerging or ongoing data and networked urbanist forms (Kitchin) of smart cities to lead them towards being open, engaged and receptive to technological citizenship.
This talk will discuss some of the successes resulting from this Open Smart Cities work, which might also be called a form or engaged scholarship. For example the language for the call for tender of the Infrastructure Canada Smart City Challenge was modified to include as a requisite that engagement and openness be part of the submissions from communities. Also, those involved with the guide have been writing policy articles that critique either AI or the smart city while also offering examples of what is possible. These articles are being read by proponents of Sidewalk Labs in Toronto. Also, the global Open Data Conference held in Argentina in September of 2018 hosted a full workshop on Open Smart Cities and finally Open North is working toward developing key performance indicators to assess those shortlisted by Infrastructure Canada and to help those communities develop an Open Smart Cities submission. The objective of the talk is to demonstrate that it is actually possible to shift public policy on large infrastructure projects, at least, in the short term.
Cottbus Brandenburg University of Technology Lecture series on Smart RegionsCritically Assembling Data, Processes & Things: Toward and Open Smart CityJune 5, 2018
This lecture will critically focus on smart cities from a data based socio-technological assemblage approach. It is a theoretical and methodological framework that allows for an empirical examination of how smart cities are socially and technically constructed, and to study them as discursive regimes and as a large technological infrastructural systems.
The lecture will refer to the research outcomes of the ERC funded Programmable City Project led by Rob Kitchin at Maynooth University and will feature examples of empirical research conducted in Dublin and other Irish cities.
In addition, the lecture will discuss the research outcomes of the Canadian Open Smart Cities project funded by the Government of Canada GeoConnections Program. Examples will be drawn from five case studies namely about the cities of Edmonton, Guelph, Ottawa and Montreal, and the Ontario Smart Grid as well as number of international best practices. The recent Infrastructure Canada Canadian Smart City Challenge and the controversial Sidewalk Lab Waterfront Toronto project will also be discussed.
It will be argued that no two smart cities are alike although the technological solutionist and networked urbanist approaches dominate and it is suggested that these kind of smart cities may not live up to the promise of being better places to live.
In this lecture, the ideals of an Open Smart City are offered instead and in this kind of city residents, civil society, academics, and the private sector collaborate with public officials to mobilize data and technologies when warranted in an ethical, accountable and transparent way in order to govern the city as a fair, viable and livable commons that balances economic development, social progress and environmental responsibility. Although an Open Smart City does not yet exist, it will be argued that it is possible.
Conference of Irish Geographies 2018
The Earth as Our Home
Automating Homelessness May 12, 2018
The research for these studies is funded by a European Research Council Advanced Investigator award ERC-2012-AdG-323636-SOFTCITY.
If you took a Geography course over 20 years ago, you might recall the subject involving little more than memorizing the locations of continents, countries, cities, as well as climate and cultural facts. In that time, many universities have expanded their geography programs by entering the world of Geographic Information Systems, or GIS for short. In the beginning GIS was an obscure field of specialized hardware, software, and cryptic keyboard commands that allowed a skilled professional to query data to get answers to geographic-based inquiries. Queries, such as the quantity of forested acres within an area, were the beginning of the geographicbased analysis revolution that has since unfolded. But today’s leading geography programs are teaching students more than just the where, what, who, and why of our world, but also bring to the table an interdisciplinary approach to solving today’s local, regional, national, and global problems. Many of these programs are not limited to just universities, now involving the K-12 space, tapping into young people’s minds to unleash innovative ideas in what is now an interdisciplinary field. To maintain a competitive advantage in today’s world, leading countries, companies, and research organizations are embracing these new capabilities and the talent that is available in the marketplace.
Authors:
Tracey P. Lauriault, Programmable City Project, Maynooth University
Peter Mooney, Environmental Protection Agency Ireland and Department of Computer Science Maynooth University
Title:
Crowdsourcing: A Geographic Approach to Identifying Policy Opportunities and Challenges Toward Deeper Levels of Public Engagement
Presented:
The Internet, Policy and Politics Conference, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, September 25-26, 2014
See the abstract here:
http://ipp.oii.ox.ac.uk/2014/programme-2014/track-c-politics-of-engagement/community/tracey-p-lauriault-peter-mooney
Open Data Seminar
Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
D/Public Expenditure and reform, Government Buildings,
Merrion Street, Dublin 2
Conference Room 0.2, South Block
2.00pm, Wednesday 11 February 2015
Tracey P. Lauriault and Rob Kitchin
Programmable City Project, NIRSA, Maynooth University
Tracey P. Lauriault (Programmable City team)
A genealogy of open data assemblages
Abstract: Evidence informed decision making, participatory public policy, government transparency and accountability, sustainable development, and data driven journalism were the initial drivers of making public data accessible. The access work of geomaticians, researchers, librarians, community developers and journalists has recently been recast as open data that includes a different set of actors. As open data matures as a practice, its principles, definitions and guidelines have been transformed into national performance indicators such as indexes, barometers, ratings and score cards; the private sector such as Gartner, McKinsey, and Deloitte are touting open data's innovation and business opportunities; while smart city initiatives offer tools and expertise to help government sense, monitor, measure and evaluate their cities. Open data today seems to have evolved far from its original ideals, even with civil society players such as Markets for Good, Sunlight Foundation, Open Knowledge Foundation, Code for America, and many others advocating for more social approaches. This talk proposes an assemblage approach to understanding open data and provides a genealogy of its development in different contexts and places.
Bio: Tracey P. Lauriault is a Programmable City Project Postdoctoral Researcher focussing on How are digital data generated and processed about cities and their citizens? She arrives from Canada where she was a researcher with the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, at Carleton University, where she investigated Data, Infrastructures and Geographical Imaginations, spatial data infrastructures, open data and the preservation of and access to research and geomatics data; legal and policy issues associated with geospatial, administrative and civil society data; and cybercartography. She is a a member of the international Research Data Alliance Legal (RDA) Interoperability Working Group, the Natural Resources Canada Roundtable on Geomatics Legal and Policy Interest Group. She is also actively engaged in public policy research as it pertains to open data and their related infrastructures.
Civic Technologies: Research, Practice, and Open ChallengesPablo Aragón
Workshop – CSCW 2020 – October 17, 2020
Over the last years, civic technology projects have emerged around the world to advance open government and community action. Although Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) communities have shown a growing interest in researching issues around civic technologies, yet most research still focuses on projects from the Global North. The goal of this workshop is, therefore, to advance CSCW research by raising awareness for the ongoing challenges and open questions around civic technology by bridging the gap between researchers and practitioners from different regions.
The workshop will be organized around three central topics: (1) discuss how the local context and infrastructure affect the design, implementation, adoption, and maintenance of civic technology; (2) identify key elements of the configuration of trust among government, citizenry, and local organizations and how these elements change depending on the sociopolitical context where community engagement takes place; (3) discover what methods and strategies are best suited for conducting research on civic technologies in different contexts. These core topics will be covered across sessions that will initiate in-depth discussions and, thereby, stimulate collaboration between the CSCW research community and practitioners of civic technologies from both Global North and South.
Smarter Cities pillars: Internet of Things, Web of Data, Crowdsourcing
Interdependence analysis: Society ageing and Societal urbanisation
Enablement of Smarter Inclusive Cities
Exploring Research Opportunities in the Digital EraTogar Simatupang
The focus of this presentation is to specialize in the field of business sciences in areas that include entrepreneurship, finance, big data, and technology, operations and logistics, and human resources.
From Aspiration to Reality: Open Smart Cities
Open smart cities might become a reality for Canada. Globally there are a number of initiatives, programs, and practices that are open smart city like which means that it is possible to have an open, responsive and engaged city that is both socio-technologically enabled, but also one where there is receptivity to and a willingness to grow a critically informed type of technological citizenship (Feenberg). For an open smart city to exist, public officials, the private sector, scholars, civil society and residents and citizens require a definition and a guide to start the exercise of imagining what an open smart city might look like. There is much critical scholarship about the smart city and there are many counter smart city narratives, but there are few depictions of what engagement, participatory design and technological leadership might be. The few examples that do exist are project based and few are systemic. An open smart city definition and guide was therefore created by a group of stakeholders in such a way that it can be used as the basis for the design of an open smart city from the ground up, or to help actors shape or steer the course of emerging or ongoing data and networked urbanist forms (Kitchin) of smart cities to lead them towards being open, engaged and receptive to technological citizenship.
This talk will discuss some of the successes resulting from this Open Smart Cities work, which might also be called a form or engaged scholarship. For example the language for the call for tender of the Infrastructure Canada Smart City Challenge was modified to include as a requisite that engagement and openness be part of the submissions from communities. Also, those involved with the guide have been writing policy articles that critique either AI or the smart city while also offering examples of what is possible. These articles are being read by proponents of Sidewalk Labs in Toronto. Also, the global Open Data Conference held in Argentina in September of 2018 hosted a full workshop on Open Smart Cities and finally Open North is working toward developing key performance indicators to assess those shortlisted by Infrastructure Canada and to help those communities develop an Open Smart Cities submission. The objective of the talk is to demonstrate that it is actually possible to shift public policy on large infrastructure projects, at least, in the short term.
Série de webinaires sur le gouvernement ouvert du Canada
L'équipe du #GouvOuvert est de retour avec un nouveau webinaire le 28 novembre! Nous allons discuter au sujet des #coulisses des #donnéesouvertes au avec la professeure
@TraceyLauriault
de
@Carleton_U
et
@JaimieBoyd
. Inscrivez-vous maintenant: http://ow.ly/UQvu50xabIb
Week 13 (Apr. 8) – Assemblages, Genealogies and Dynamic Nominalism
Course description:
The emphasis is to learn to envision data genealogically, as a social and technical assemblages, as infrastructure and reframe them beyond technological conceptions. During the term we will explore data, facts and truth; the power of data both big and small; governmentality and biopolitics; risk, probability and the taming of chance; algorithmic culture, dynamic nominalism, categorization and ontologies; the translation of people, space and social phenomena into and by data and software and the role of data in the production of knowledge.
This class format is a graduate MA seminar and a collaborative workshop. We will work with Ottawa Police Services and critically examine the socio-technological data assemblage of that institution. This includes a fieldtrip to the Elgin street station; a tour of the 911 Communication Centre and we will meet with data experts.
April 4, 2019, 17:30-19:30
IOG's Policy Crunch
Disruptive Innovation and Public Policy in the Digital Age event series
The Global Race in Digital Governance
https://iog.ca/events/the-global-race-in-digital-governance/
March 25, 2019, 9:30 AM
International Meeting of NAICS code Experts
Statistics Canada
Simon Goldberg Room, RH Coats building
100 Tunney’s Pasture Driveway
With research contributions by Ben Wright, Carleton University and Dustin Moores, University of Ottawa
Presented at the:
Canadian Aviation Safety Collaboration Forum
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
Montreal, QC
January 23, 2019
This presentation was made in real-time while attending the Forum. The objective was to observe and listen, and share some examples outside of this community that may provide insight about data sharing models with a focus on governance.
Presentation #2:Open/Big Urban DataLessons Learned from the Programmable City ProjectMansion House, Dublin, May 9th, 201810am-2pmhttp://progcity.maynoothuniversity.ie/2018/03/lessons-for-smart-cities-from-the-programmable-city-project/
Financé par : GéoConnexions
Dirigé par : Nord Ouvert
Le noyau de l’équipe :
Rachel Bloom et Jean-Noé Landry, Nord Ouvert
Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, Carleton University
David Fewer, Clinique d’intérêt public et de politique d’Internet du Canada (CIPPIC)
Dr Mark Fox, University of Toronto
Assistant et assistante de recherche, Carleton University
Carly Livingstone
Stephen Letts
Open Smart City in Canada Project
Funded by: GeoConnections
Lead by: OpenNorth
Project core team:
Rachel Bloom & Jean-Noe Landry, Open North
Dr. Tracey P. Lauriault, Carleton University
David Fewer, LL.M., Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC)
Dr. Mark Fox, University of Toronto
Research Assistants Carleton University
Carly Livingstone
Stephen Letts
Introductory remarks
- Jean-Noe Landry, Executive Director, Open North
Webinar 2 includes:
- Summary of Webinar 1: E-Scan and Assessment of Smart -
Cities in Canada (listen at: http://bit.ly/2yp7H8k )
- Situating smart cities amongst current digital practices
- Towards guiding principles for Open Smart Cities
- Examples of international best practices from international cities
- Observations & Next Steps
Webinar Presenters:
- Rachel Bloom, Open North
- Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University
Content Contributors:
- David Fewer CIPPIC,
- Mark Fox U. of Toronto,
- Stephen Letts (RA Carleton U.)
Project Name:
- Open Smart Cities in Canada
Date:
- December 14, 2017
Canada is a data and technological society. There is no sector that is uninformed by data or unmediated by code, algorithms, software and infrastructure. Consider the Internet of Things (IoT), smart cities, and precision agriculture; or smart fisheries, forestry, and energy and of course governing. In a data based and technological society, leadership is the responsibility of all citizens, a parent, teacher, scholar, administrator, public servant, nurse and doctor, mayor and councillor, fisher, builder, business person, industrialist, MP, MLA, PM, and so on. In other words leadership is distributed and requires people power. This form of citizenship, according to Andrew Feenberg, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology, requires agency, knowledge and the capacity to act or power. In this GovMaker Keynote I will introduce the concept of technological citizenship, I will discuss what principled public interest governing might look like, and how we might go about critically applying philosophy in our daily practice. In terms of practice I will discuss innovative policy and regulation such as the right to repair movement, EU legislation such as the right to explanation, data subjects and the right to access and also data sovereignty from a globalization and an indigenous perspective.
AoIR 2017
Panel 17 Dorpat-Ewers, Tartu 9-10:30AM
Data Driven Ontology Practices
The Real world objects of Ordnance Survey Ireland
Abstract is available here: https://www.conftool.com/aoir2017/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=258&presentations=show
Government Information Day
Oct. 26, Library and Archives Canada
10:45 – 12:30 Government information & data ecosystem
Data Diversity & Data Cultures = Flexible Open by Default Policy
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/about-us/events/Pages/2017/government-information-day.aspx
NOTE: The slides have animated images which are not interactive in a ppt
Presented by: Jean-Noe Landry (Open North) & Dr Tracey P. Lauriault (Carleton University) & Rachel Bloom (Open North)
Content Contributors: David Fewer CIPPIC, Mark Fox U. of Toronto, Stephen Letts (RA Carleton U.)
Partner Cities: City of Edmonton, City of Guelph, Ville de Montréal & City of Ottawa
Project Name: Open Smart Cities in Canada
Date: August 30, 2017
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Adjusting primitives for graph : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
Graph algorithms, like PageRank Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) is an adjacency-list based graph representation that is
Multiply with different modes (map)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector multiply.
2. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector multiply.
Sum with different storage types (reduce)
1. Performance of vector element sum using float vs bfloat16 as the storage type.
Sum with different modes (reduce)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector element sum.
2. Performance of memcpy vs in-place based CUDA based vector element sum.
3. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (memcpy).
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Sum with in-place strategies of CUDA mode (reduce)
1. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Explore our comprehensive data analysis project presentation on predicting product ad campaign performance. Learn how data-driven insights can optimize your marketing strategies and enhance campaign effectiveness. Perfect for professionals and students looking to understand the power of data analysis in advertising. for more details visit: https://bostoninstituteofanalytics.org/data-science-and-artificial-intelligence/
As Europe's leading economic powerhouse and the fourth-largest hashtag#economy globally, Germany stands at the forefront of innovation and industrial might. Renowned for its precision engineering and high-tech sectors, Germany's economic structure is heavily supported by a robust service industry, accounting for approximately 68% of its GDP. This economic clout and strategic geopolitical stance position Germany as a focal point in the global cyber threat landscape.
In the face of escalating global tensions, particularly those emanating from geopolitical disputes with nations like hashtag#Russia and hashtag#China, hashtag#Germany has witnessed a significant uptick in targeted cyber operations. Our analysis indicates a marked increase in hashtag#cyberattack sophistication aimed at critical infrastructure and key industrial sectors. These attacks range from ransomware campaigns to hashtag#AdvancedPersistentThreats (hashtag#APTs), threatening national security and business integrity.
🔑 Key findings include:
🔍 Increased frequency and complexity of cyber threats.
🔍 Escalation of state-sponsored and criminally motivated cyber operations.
🔍 Active dark web exchanges of malicious tools and tactics.
Our comprehensive report delves into these challenges, using a blend of open-source and proprietary data collection techniques. By monitoring activity on critical networks and analyzing attack patterns, our team provides a detailed overview of the threats facing German entities.
This report aims to equip stakeholders across public and private sectors with the knowledge to enhance their defensive strategies, reduce exposure to cyber risks, and reinforce Germany's resilience against cyber threats.
1. http://doi.org/10.22215/tplauriault.courses.2018.coms2200
COMS2200
Week 2:
Crowdsourcing and Digital
Humanitarianism
Big Data & Society
September 14, 2018
Class Schedule: Fridays, 8:30 - 11:30
Location: CO372
Instructor: Dr. Tracey P. Lauriault
E-mail: Tracey.Lauriault@Carleton.ca
Office: 4110b River Building
Office Hours: Thursdays 9-noon, Friday Afternoon by apt.
ORCID:0000-0003-1847-2738
CU IR: https://ir.library.carleton.ca/ppl/8
5. Note taker Paul Menton Centre
Currently the PMC is seeking a volunteer notetaker for this class,
This volunteer service is very easy for you to do and has many rewards.
Volunteers must take notes for all lectures and have them uploaded within 48 hours of the
lecture date.
Notes can be typed or handwritten notes can be scanned and uploaded via Carleton
Central. Volunteers who upload all notes in a timely manner will be eligible for a letter of
appreciation and CCR credit at the end of the term.
If this is an opportunity you would like to take advantage of please email
volunteer_notetaking@carleton.ca with your name, student number and complete course
code, or you can stop by our office in 501 University Centre."
We truly appreciate any help you can provide in this process, and will keep you updated
on our progress to find a volunteer in your class. Please let us know if you have questions
or if we can assist in any way.
Kind regards,
PMC Notetaking Team
Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities
Carleton University
Phone: 613-520-6608
Fax: 613-520-3995
Email: Volunteer_Notetaking@Carleton.ca
http://doi.org/10.22215/tplauriault.courses.2018.coms2200
6. 13 Weeks – 36 Hours
http://doi.org/10.22215/tplauriault.courses.2018.coms2200
Weeks Date Guests Assignment
Week 1 – Introduction Sept. 7
Week 2 – Crowdsourcing & Dig. Humanitarianism Sept. 14 Assignment 1: Description
Week 3 – Open Data Sept. 21 City of Ottawa
Week 4 – Moving, Locating and Sensing You Sept. 28
Week 5 – Counting You Oct. 5
Week 6 – Social Media You Oct. 12 Assignment 2: Remote Sensing
Week 7 – Sorting you Oct. 19 Assignment 3: Article
Study Break
Week 8 – Identifying You Nov. 2 Part 2: Inforgraphic Peer Review
Week 9 – Watching You Nov. 9
Week 10 – Big Data You Nov. 16 Assignment 4: Data Trail
Week 11 – Data Brokers and You Nov. 23
Week 12 – Remembering You Nov. 30 Parts 3 & 4: Infographic FINAL
Week 13 – Critical Data Studies & Review Dec. 7
Exam
7. Office Hours & Correspondence
E-mail:
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ca
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subject line.
Office Hours:
4110b Richcraft Hall
Thursdays 9-12:00
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Reference Desk
32. Definitions
1. Spatial Media
2. Geoweb
3. Volunteered Geographic
Information (VGI)
4. Locative Media
5. User Generated Content
(UGC)
6. Citizen Science
7. Participatory Mapping or
PPGIS
8. Crowdsourcing
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33. 1. Spatial Media
Geography is an ‘organizational logic of the web’
& the web has become a key means to mediate
space, location and sociality
spatial and locative technologies render virtually
everything located or locatable, and thus open to
navigation via maps or spatialisations and
interpretation through geographical analysis
Mediation of a diverse set of socio-spatial practices
– communications, interactions, transactions –
beyond traditional mapping
Kitchin, Lauriault & Wilson (2017) Understanding Spatial Media
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34. 2. Geoweb
spatial technologies (hardware, software, APIs, databases,
networks, platforms, cloud computing),
spatial content (geo-referenced and geo-tagged data)
internet-based mapping and location based
applications/services that they compose and enable
generally refers to new spatial technologies that are more
interactive, participatory, social and generative in nature
http://doi.org/10.22215/tplauriault.courses.2018.coms2200
Kitchin, Lauriault & Wilson (2017) Understanding Spatial Media
35. 3. Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)
New relations and practices of geographic
production and consumption & a new form
of producing geography
Web 2.0, ‘non-expert’ use tools to generate,
map & share spatial data & spatial apps
people interact w/& help build the geoweb
by adding georeferenced data
prosumption adding crucial value in the
creation of a product or delivery of a service,
which is also actively consume
the public creates & contributes facts to
websites where the facts are synthesized into
geo-databases
Citizens as sensors Kitchin, Lauriault & Wilson (2017) Understanding Spatial Media
36. 4. Locative Media Subsection of the geoweb
situating users in time & space and mediate
interactions w/ locations
underlying data, practices, & services are
location-orientated
navigation & routing apps, LBS, and ad
practices where users are recommended
options w/ respect to activities based on
their present location, & location-based
social media
Five categories:
1. social check-in sites (e.g., Foursquare);
2. social review sites (e.g., Yelp, Tellmewhere,
Groupon);
3. social scheduling/events sites (e.g.,
Meetup).
4. social real-time traffic & navigation
recommendations (E.g. Waze)
Kitchin, Lauriault & Wilson (2017) Understanding Spatial Media
37. 5. User Generated Content
Users contribute data to an
application / platform
It may or may not be spatial
Often tied with Location Based
Service on your phone –
(Device generated Content?)
Kitchin, Lauriault & Wilson (2017) Understanding Spatial Media
38. 6. Augmented Spatial Media
Real-world geography becomes interactive
Space is augmented with digital
information, real locations are tagged with
RFID, or phone number, or your LBS
recognizes is tied to an app that
recognizes a location and sends you
information
Kitchin, Lauriault & Wilson (2017) Understanding Spatial Media
39. 7. Citizen Science (CS)
process whereby citizens are involved in
science as researchers:
concerned citizens
government agencies
industry
academia
community groups, and
local institutions
collaborate to monitor, track and respond
to issues of common community concern.
not “scientists using citizens as data
collectors,” but rather, “citizens as scientists”
Conrad, Cathy C., and Krista G. Hilchey (2011)
Kitchin, Lauriault & Wilson (2017) Understanding Spatial Media
40. Types of Citizen Science
Passive sensing:
relies on participants to provide a resource
that they own for automatic sensing. The
information that is collected through the
sensors is then used by scientists for
analysis
Volunteer computing:
participants share their unused computing
resources & allow scientists to run complex
computer models during the times when
the device is not in use
Volunteer thinking:
uses ‘cognitive surplus’, participants
contribute their ability to recognise patterns
or analyse information that will then be
used in a scientific project.
Environmental and ecological observation:
focuses on monitoring environmental
pollution or observations of flora and
fauna, through activities
Participatory sensing:
is similar to the previous type, but gives
the participant more roles and control
over the process. The process is more
distributed and emphasises the active
involvement of the participants in
setting what will be collected and
analysed
Community/Civic science:
is initiated and driven by participants
who identify a problem and address it
using scientific methods and tools. The
problem, data collection and analysis
are often carried out by community
members or in collaboration with
scientists or established laboratories.
43. 8. Participatory Mapping (PM)
• Approaches & techniques that
combines cartography w/participatory
methods to represent the spatial
knowledge of local communities.
• inhabitants possess expert knowledge
which can be expressed in a
geographical framework
• Often socially or culturally distinct
understanding w/information that is
not in official maps.
• customary land boundaries
• traditional natural resource management
practices
• sacred areas
• Traditional Place names
Brown and Kytta 2014
Ogiek Peoples visualizing their traditional lands
Nessuit, Kenya
44. Cybercartography
Gwich’in Social and
Cultural Institute
Ingrid Kritsch Collected
over 800 spoken place
names, photos and
videos w/elders on an
iPad
Data replicated back in
Ottawa in a matter of
hours
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Overview
45. Cybercartographic Atlases
Atlas of
Indigenous
Perspectives &
Knowledge
Atlas of
Arctic
Bay
Lake Huron
Treaty Atlas
Inuit (Siku)Sea
Ice Use &
Occupancy
Project
Views
from the
North
Kitikmeot
Place Name
Atlas
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Atlases
46. 9. Crowdsourcing
• Involves people not normally in your
workspace to help collect information
• An organization has a task it needs
performed
• An online community voluntarily
performs the task
• The result is mutual benefit for the
organization and the online community
• NOTE – labour issues
Daren C. Brabham IBM Center for The Business of Government, 2013,
Using Crowdsourcing In Government
48. Typology of Participation
Muki Haklay, Citizen Science and Volunteered Geographic Information: Overview and Typology of Participation. (2013)
49. Spectrum of VGI Contributors
Knowledge of Geographic Information
Degree of
VGI
Contribution
Neophyte
Interested
Amateur
Expert
Amateur
Expert
Professional
Expert
Authority
GeoConnections
Volunteered Geographic
Information (VGI)
Primer (2012)
50. Issues for Government
• Interaction type
• Trigger event
• Domain
• Organization
• Actors
• Data sets
• Process
• Feedback
• Goal
• Side effects
• Contact point
• Policy
• Legal
• Standards
• Data quality
• Technology
• Sustainability
• Credibility of the
source
• Preservation
• Security
http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1433169/
52. VGI Quality Control & System Openness
OpenRestricted VGI System Openness
Quality
Control
Formality
The Crowd
Professionals
GeoConnections Volunteered
Geographic Information (VGI)
Primer (2012)
54. Citizen Science as a Springboard to
Engagement
• VGI, Citizen Science, Participatory Mapping &
Crowdsourcing
• Co-governance
• Deliberative democracy
• Evidence informed decision making
• Policy development
55. Beijing Air Tracks: Tracking Data for Good
http://www.spatialinfor
mationdesignlab.org/pr
ojects/beijing-air-tracks
http://www.nytimes.com/int
eractive/2008/08/16/spor
ts/olympics/20080816-c0-
graphic.html
56.
57. Structure of the paper
Intro
Literature review
Methodology
Background
Who are the volunteers
Professional background
Motivation
Geographic experience
Organizations
Professional volunteer organizations
Humanitarian volunteers
Conclusion
Notes
Reference
http://doi.org/10.22215/tplauriault.courses.2018.coms2200
Elizabeth Resor, 2015, The Neo-Humanitarians, https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.112
58. Methodology
Surveyed vol. crisis mappers
Interviews with key experts
Board members, professionals
Founds respondents on listserves
Text analysis of key online resources –
Bulleting Boards & Blogs
Practical documentation of event
Training material
Professionalized vs transparent
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Elizabeth Resor, 2015, The Neo-Humanitarians, https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.112
59. Research Question
Who are crisis mapping volunteers?
Do they have credibility to contributed to formal humanitarian
response?
Can they meet professional standards of engagement,
production and analysis?
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Elizabeth Resor, 2015, The Neo-Humanitarians, https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.112
60. History of Humanitarian Mapping
Sept. 11, 2001
GIS + remote sensing
No protocol
Emergency Mapping and Data Centre, Pier 92
Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004
Satellite and radar imagery donated by vendors
Online fundraising
Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Google Maps, SCIOPIONUS mashup
No trust in FIMA
Websites, message boards, relief centre locations, supplies, damaged
infrastructure
Kenyan Elections, 2010
Ushahidi
SMS of post election violence
Haiti, 2010
OpenStreetMap
Google Maps, Google Earth
Lack of integration
Digital Humanitarian Network, 2012
Typhoon Pablo, Phillippines, 2012
UN OCHA outreach
SBTF, DHN
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61. Premise
Volunteer crisis mapping
Technological advances
Online mapping tools
Social media
Interactive website
Global platforms
Online communities
Volunteerism
Collect data in response to
a crisis
Lack of affiliation with formal
humanitarian actors
United Nations
Quality of amateur mapping
Neogeography
Neo-Humanitarians
Remote support
Work done outside of formal
humanitarian response
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Elizabeth Resor, 2015, The Neo-Humanitarians, https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.112
62. What was provided?
“they were organized and fueled by volunteers using an open,
collaborative production model; they provided information
that was not otherwise available to humanitarian actors in a
very short period of time, and they applied very recent
developments in online mapping technologies” (p.36)
http://doi.org/10.22215/tplauriault.courses.2018.coms2200
Elizabeth Resor, 2015, The Neo-Humanitarians, https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.112
63. Kinds of data & Software
Geographic information system (GIS)
QGIS
ESRI
Ushahidi plaftorm
Open Street Map (OSM) platform
Geodata
User generated content (UCG)
Volunteered geographic information
(VGI)
Social media
Unstructured data
Sometimes w/location
Cleaned twitter data – events
SMS
Emails
Data were:
Verified
Categorized
geotagged
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Elizabeth Resor, 2015, The Neo-Humanitarians, https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.112
64. What do they create?
Maps of building damage
Information about
trapped victims
Location of resources and
aid
Locations of armed
conflict
Location of tanks and
equipment
Extent of damage, floods,
etc.
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Elizabeth Resor, 2015, The Neo-Humanitarians, https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.112
65. Benefits
Tools are easily scalable, free or low cost, free labour
Open opportunities for participation
Involve young people
Friendly government
Rich data source
Local knowledge representation
Democratizing mapmaking
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Elizabeth Resor, 2015, The Neo-Humanitarians, https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.112
66. Pitfalls/concerns
Reinforce existing inequalities
Digital divide
Quality control
Bypass humanitarian response
Poor user interface
Lack of training in GiScience
Privacy - geo
Consent
Reliability
Ideology
Copyright / IP
Google maps vs OSM
Data affect peoples survival & safety
Weight of the decisions
Publishing the location of relief
workers
Which side of a conflict
Language
Skewed decision making
Data overload for responders
Familiarity
Path dependent
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Elizabeth Resor, 2015, The Neo-Humanitarians, https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.112
67. Volunteers
Trust?
Expertise?
Affiliation?
Connection to formal actors?
Most are skilled and experienced in map making
Very little experience in humanitarian work
http://doi.org/10.22215/tplauriault.courses.2018.coms2200
Elizabeth Resor, 2015, The Neo-Humanitarians, https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.112
68. Motivation
Why do people get involved?
Data standards and data quality?
Most cared about the issue more than gaining skills
Most are aware that their work affects people
More news, interest in foreign affairs, social networks, career
goals
Crisis mapping might be making volunteers more aware of
humanitarianism
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Elizabeth Resor, 2015, The Neo-Humanitarians, https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.112
69. Geographic experience
Geo experience in the affected countries?
Geo knowledge?
Geo bias?
Language?
Local knowledge?
Mixed results
Most volunteers had demonstrated attributes related to trust
and evidence of expertise
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Elizabeth Resor, 2015, The Neo-Humanitarians, https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.112
70. Professional volunteers
GISCorps & URISA, 2003
46 countries, hundreds of projects
3000 volunteers
Remote and in the field volunteers
Building databases
Spatial analysis
Modeling
Teaching & capacity building
App dev
Project evaluation
Job specs, requirements
CVs
GISCorps Code of Conduct
What of protecting sources? Danger of data bias? Misallocation of
relief?
http://doi.org/10.22215/tplauriault.courses.2018.coms2200
Elizabeth Resor, 2015, The Neo-Humanitarians, https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.112
71. Humanitarian Volunteers
SBTF, 2010
Patrick Meir, Ushahidi, Harvard Humantiarian Initiative, Qatar
Foundation’s Computing Research Institute
UN OCHA
Tasks:
Cleaning twitter data
Categorizing
Geotagging images
Finding maps
OS geodata
Stanby Code of Conduct
Do not harm
Data quality
Open data, open source
Comparable with the formal sector
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Elizabeth Resor, 2015, The Neo-Humanitarians, https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.112
73. INFOGRAPHIC B – (Due
Week 3 Sept. 21)
Find 2 infographics in the library, online or
anywhere else about any topic.
The infographics can be about concepts,
processes, a paper, a story, and should include
data, etc.
Cite and share an image of these in the CULearn
Forum.
In a few words, explain why you selected these,
how you found them, why you think they are
good, discuss if there is room for improvement?
What kind of visualization techniques did they use?
What would you do differently?
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74. Infographic Project
You will produce an informative, relevant, accurate, purposeful, fun, and creative
infographic about open data at the City of Ottawa.
It can be about:
how open data came to be,
any dataset in the open portal,
the open data licence, policy or directive,
open data applications, contests,
open government,
key performance indicators,
mapping,
or crowdsourcing projects at the City.
We will look at many examples in-class and do exercises to get you
ready. You can discuss a process, findings in the data, an issue that uses any City
data, compare things, show a dataset flowline, tell a story with a dataset, unpack
the pieces of a dataset, discuss data found in a report, etc.. It can be digital or it
can be done by hand.
See curated resources for you here https://traceyplauriault.ca/dataviz/.
To ensure your success you will have a small activity every week that helps you
build up to the final project and these will be posted in the CULearn Class
Forum.
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76. Week 3 (Sept. 21) – Open Data & Guest
Lecture Darrel Bridge, City of Ottawa
Kitchin, Rob,
(2014) Open
and Linked
Data,
chapter 3 in
the Data
Revolution,
Sage.
Open Data Videos Resources:
Open Data City of Edmonton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuh_pnuIiGU
City of Ottawa Smart Cities Challenge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=79&v=gvpZdNpFLK4
City of Ottawa Open Data Resources:
City of Ottawa – Open Data Council Report (May 12, 2010)
http://ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/citycouncil/occ/2010/05-
12/csedc/08-ACS2010-COS-ITS-0005-Open%20data%20(2).htm
Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
Act
https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90m56
City of Ottawa Accountability & Transparency Policy
https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/your-city-government/policies-and-
administrative-structure/administrative-policies#accountability-and-
transparency-policy
City of Ottawa Smart City 2.0
https://documents.ottawa.ca/sites/documents.ottawa.ca/files/smart_cit
y_strategy_en.pdf
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