Blown away by the interest and rage 😡 on the work on visa inequality.

With LAGO I have a clear aim: to tell a truthful, beautiful and inspiring story about the movement of people around the 🌍

To do so I collaborate with Federica Fragapane ✨

First we looked at visa inequality 👇

NYC has appointed for the 1st time a 'Chief Public Realm Officer'. Her 1st report has lots of interesting nuggets, incl. a 'Public Space Avengers' team & a public space academy nyc.gov/assets/publicr…

“It probably exists, but I have not yet found, in the history of philosophy, a prolonged meditation on the back’s lack of ocular power' publicdomainreview.org/collection/ruc…

[Irreversible innovation] Great to see the fab Bogota Care Blocks project in the spotlight again, and even better to read about plans for scaling up even after the change of mayor theguardian.com/global-develop… ht James Anderson

Food policy in a warming world voxdev.org/topic/energy-e…

[Lead user innovation] The software was previously used to count heads of cattle. Ortellado came up with the idea to develop the tool after feeling frustrated with the unreliability of rally attendance figures by the state and Brazilian media restofworld.org/2024/ai-crowd-…

For 47 centuries Nilometers managed the commons in Egypt. Can this technology be adapted to reduce greenhouse gas emissions today?

Join us today, at 12:30 PM MST to hear from SFI External Profs Steve Lansing Complexity Science Hub, John Miller Carnegie Mellon University, & Vibeke Sorensen about their

A new repository of science, technology and innovation policy initiatives 'targeting' [!] Indigenous knowledge & communities stip.oecd.org/stip/indigenou…

[Conference + call for papers] Public innovation for societal transformation (like that they are soliciting papers on the ‘dark side’ of public sector innovation) pubsic.sites.uu.nl

And people say what about digital activism? Behold, an instance of AI x civic engagement (all wahalas notwithstanding!).

A good instance upon which to test the efficacy of chatGPT, and its ability to inform based on localised content.

AI researchers, heads up! 🔈🗣️🔊

Perfect timing for Creative Bureaucracy Festival frontline.thehindu.com/books/book-rev… via Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta Sushobhan

'When the combination of big tech & politics failed the Palestinian people by overlooking the internet disruptions affecting Gaza, grassroots technology known as the “network tree” came to the rescue' globalvoices.org/2024/06/13/the… ht Jaume Fortuny

'Instead of formal vs. informal, we might as well start referring to efficient (global South) and inefficient transport (global North)' (Marc Hasselwander) nature.com/articles/s4146…

“I miss the rain, the green plants, the mooing of the cows, and the bleating of the lambs,” says Mr. Abdullah, recalling the pleasure of eating couscous mixed with warm milk from his cows csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2…

Proud to be organizing the international conference ´What Works?: Understanding Positive Performance and Improvement in Public Sector Organizations in the Global South´ CIDE DAP together with Erin McDonnell from Notre Dame University:

Insurance helped 46,000 Indian women avoid deadly work during heat waves economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/banki…

If the two grand political narratives no longer sell, it is because the projection into the future they proposed is no longer credible. And a grand political narrative of ecology does not exist blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/202…