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Access paper here: http://www.albany.edu/~gpr/SmallModels.pdf

Today sees the release of the first application built on the Argument Web that is aimed at non-specialist audiences: Argublogging. For bloggers and online commentators, argublogging offers a way of expressing agreement and disagreement in online conversations using the rich language of the argument web, but in a style that is at least as easy to use as existing online comment systems. For more information, visit argublogging.com

great staff David, thanks

Tool for visualizing networks, very promising,

A new generation of Collective Intelligence (CI) technologies, adopted by public and private sector organizations, offers "the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate and invent".

Uh... collective intelligence in organizations sounds a bit creepy, like "We are the Borg".

The need for policy makers to understand science and for scientists to understand policy processes is widely recognised. However, the science-policy relationship is sometimes difficult and occasionally dysfunctional; it is also increasingly visible, because it must deal with contentious issues, or itself becomes a matter of public controversy, or both. We suggest that identifying key unanswered questions on the relationship between science and policy will catalyse and focus research in this field. To identify these questions, a collaborative procedure was employed with 52 participants selected to cover a wide range of experience in both science and policy, including people from government, non-governmental organisations, academia and industry.

Topics of this book include principles, uses for transparency and civic engagement, a brief legal history, data quality, civic hacking, and paradoxes in transparency.

Speakers: Jerzy Miller, Neelie Kroes Speakers: Jerzy Miller, Neelie Kroes, Rolf Alter, Harry van Dorenmalen, Juhan Parts Speakers: Riel Miller, David Broster, Samia Melhem Speakers: Ales Dobnikar, Adrian Duşa, Herbert Leitold Speakers: Ardita Driza Maurer, Austin Gatt, William Perrin Speakers: Ton Zijlstra, Witold Abramowicz, Emilio Garcia Garcia Speakers: Tim McGrath, André Hoddevik, Scott Bell Speakers: Charlotte Brogren, Gilles Polin, Nicolas Conso, Sónia Lascasas Speakers: Andreas Reisen, Bill McCluggage, Marc Hameleers Speakers: Jonathan Goldsmith, Bogdan Pękalski, Brigitte Mandt, José de la Mata Amaya Speakers: Corien Prins, Paul de Hert, Giovanni Buttarelli Speakers: Nigel Shadbolt, Bruno Lanvin, Haiyan Qian, John Higgins Speakers: Sasha Bezuhanova, Wojciech R.

Democratizing Big Data and Complexity Science by weaving participatory CollectiveIntelligence into FuturICT.

Very nice high profiled example of augmented reality.

Organizations like World Bank and the CDC have discovered how easy it is to design policies, create customized policy models, facilitate decision-making, build stakeholder consensus and share insights with simulations by Forio.

Think together to act together: CivicEvolution helps citizens create community written and supported plans to solve community problems.

The Cyberinfrastructure Shell (CIShell) is an open source, community-driven platform for the integration, utilization and visualization of datasets, algorithms, tools, and computing resources. CIShell supports the plug-and-play of datasets and algorithms and their bundling into custom tools including Network Workbench, TexTrend, Sci² and EpiC.

A power tool for working with messy data (formerly Freebase Gridworks) - Google Project Hosting

looks very cool but can you categorize based on the taxonomy?

Summer 2012 Game Development Conferences Compiled by Ben Sawyer "Recently I saw several friends say there were a number of game conferences coming up so I put together the following schedule and links to make sure everyone knows where to go, when, and what for."

Code for America is building a wiki on procurement, specifically oriented towards open source technology.

"An Evidence Hub is designed to help your members add their insights where they'll make the highest impact, and through the use of different visualizations/maps, helps answer questions such as the following: Who in my region is working on this problem? Are there any partnerships between projects in these two areas, on this theme?"

Climate Interactive is building a community that creates, shares, and uses credible models, accessible simulations, and related media in order to improve the way leaders and citizens around the world think about the climate. Our purpose is to get these sims and insights into the world as accessible products so they can be tweaked, enhanced, translated, distributed and used to power change around the world. We're building sims that are easy to use by climate analysts, communicators, and leaders of many types, and that provide immediate feedback, so users can see the results of different scenarios on atmospheric carbon levels and temperature. And we're sharing our own analysis so that leaders have access to powerful insights. In particular, the "Climate Action Initiative" which includes policy leaders such as Dr. Robert Corell is using our simulations to make change at the highest levels of governments.

QuickNets is a collaboration among the U.S. Federal Government and many non-governmental organizations. Our purpose is to set up communication (cell phones, text messaging, and Internet) as quickly as possible in the wake of a natural or man-made disaster. QuickNets also provides local and global websites that allow collaboration and crowdsourcing.

"Hypothes.is will be a distributed, open-source platform for the collaborative evaluation of information. It will enable sentence-level critique of written words combined with a sophisticated yet easy-to-use model of community peer-review. It will work as an overlay on top of any stable content, including news, blogs, scientific articles, books, terms of service, ballot initiatives, legislation and regulations, software code and more-without requiring participation of the underlying site. "