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Clean economy via a non profit organization of local governments.

A new principle for calculation; can we apply it to social simulation? The video of the robot course is quite impressive.

To introduce myself in the group: what I study and I teach, related to a new perspective in economic modeling.

What people think about politics through what they read. Unfortunately, only for the US, but quite interesting. It looks by reading material, that the Democrats will have a hard time this November.

Have you ever wanted a mobile app that ties your location to crime statistics, government environmental and health data, and weather and solar flare data to calculate the hourly probability of a zombie apocalypse?

Play to be Mario Draghi, form the ECB web site, and learn economics and politics.

MIT course on agent-based modeling for health policy with AnyLogic Nathaniel Osgood - Associate Professor, University of Saskatchewan made a MIT graduate based course on agent-based modeling for health policy with AnyLogic. Please find the original materias here. Material from other supporting lectures and tutorials outside of the scope of this course can be accessed here. This page includes separate tables of materials for both lectures and Java for AnyLogic tutorials; assignments are also available.

FIve stars of open data engagement

Report on the first Corssover Project workshop: "Report on Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism" (aka PMOD)

Nifty website for querying any EU bodies. They are bound to answer under a sort of FOIA.

BudgIT is creative start-up driven to retell the Nigerian budget and public data  in a finer detail across every literacy span.  We aim to stimulate citizens interests around public data and hence trigger  discussions towards better governance. We are committed to principles of open data & governance, citizen participation and data transparency. 

Keep informed about advances in structural biology and structural genomics. Discover how protein sequences, three-dimensional structures and models relate to biological function. Stay up to date with the latest protocols, materials and technologies.

"LEADERSNew technologies are helping to connect governments and change agents from across sectors,and putting new frontiers within reach of traditional institutions. In this section, we provide an over-view of four such frontiers: social innovation, online gaming for the public good, crowdsourcing (and crowdfunding), and Gov2.0.A. SOCIAL INNOVATION nologies, and to problem-solving more generally, areSocial innovation at its core is the successful implementa-tion of new ideas that meet social needs.46"

In a government bureaucracy, any innovation can take years to come to fruition. But that can change, says Tom Kalil, deputy director for policy for the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House. Kalil recently participated in a two-day conference at Wharton titled, "For the Win: Serious Gamification," which looked at the application of gaming techniques in business, education, government and other scenarios. Before the conference, Kalil spoke with Kevin Werbach, a conference organizer and a professor of legal studies and business ethics at Wharton, about why gamification has become a hot topic at the White House.

Attracted much attention as an example of gamification of science

We help cities, housing corporations and cultural organizations make interactive and collaborative plans with multiple stakeholders.

Nice example of how games can be used for urban planning.

One of the catalogues of COTS serious games. Not recently updated however.

"I have a brain cancer. Yesterday I went to get my digital medical records: I have to show them to many doctors. Sadly they were in a closed, proprietary format and, thus, I could not open them using my computer, or send them in this format to all the people who could have saved my life. I cracked them. I opened them and converted the contents into open formats, so that I could share them with everyone. Just today I have been able to share the data about my health condition (about my brain cancer) with 3 doctors. 2 of them already replied."

Update here: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/25/opinion/iaconesi-cure-open-source/index.html

The interconnectedness of the global economy makes it more vulnerable to major shocks. In the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown, global leaders are acutely aware of the threats another such crisis would pose to economic recovery, social cohesion and political stability. How can governments and business prepare for and respond to such unanticipated events?