Tag: transparent_society

UGC Epidemiology

Who Is Sick? is a new Web service that provide a sense of your community’s health by enabling people who live there to share information about the local spread of diseases. You can anonymously post your own sickness information and use the Google Maps interface to search and filter sicknesses by symptoms, sex, age, and, of course, location. It’s also interesting to look at the percentage breakdown of symptoms–like runny nose, cough, or stomach ache–in a particular area.

livejournal meets public health. sharing means caring?

Shot Spotter

Last year there were 148 homicides in Oakland. Today, when someone fires a gun on a city street, a network of hidden microphones kicks in — triangulating the exact location. And alerting police. Can a tech startup help put a dent in violent crime?

the march towards a transparent society continues with a sensorweb install. some military installs combine this with automatic fire response, just like in the movies.

€100B subsidy transparency

wow

the biggest release of information held by governments to the public and the media since the creation of the European Union. All 27 EU countries will disclose data revealing details of some €100bn given in subsidies by the Eurotaxpayer every year to farmers, food companies, industrial regeneration schemes and the fishing industry, from the Black Sea resorts in Bulgaria and Romania to the Canary Islands and Madeira.