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Open Data: are local councils getting the message?
by Tim O'Riordan via WSI | WSI
I attended a highly inspirational talk at the Ordnance Survey last Thursday. The key speaker, Chief Technology Officer at the UK Government’s Cabinet Office, Liam Maxwell, spoke on “Government as a Platform” (GaaP) under the auspices of the Southern Policy Centre to a distinguished group including local and national politicians, academics, CEO’s and researchers. Maxwell is in charge of streamlining …
Web Science Public Engagement Lecture
by Lisa Harris via WSI | WSI
Web Science iPhD students are hosting a Public Engagement Lecture to discuss a series of Computational topics as they relate to the socio-technical nature of the World Wide Web. Web Science explores the technologies, policies and practices of the interchange of data, information and knowledge, on the web in a cross & multi-disciplinary fashion. Students come from many different backgrounds. …
The first UK Open Data Camp, Winchester
by Johanna Walker via WSI | WSI
As the first ‘unconference’ I’ve attended, I was initially nervous that sanctioned chaos was about to break out. Thankfully, due to a deceptively laid-back but in fact highly efficient organising team, everything ran like clockwork. Subjects were not arranged in advance but any attendee was free to run a session over the two days, ranging from organised presentations to more …
WSI Distinguished Lecture by Prof. Evelyn Ruppert
by Lisa Harris via WSI | WSI
By Digichamps Sylvian Jesudoss and Elena Tsarkova On the 22nd January at the University of Southampton, there was a fantastic opportunity to attend the first WSI distinguished lecture of the year by Evelyn Ruppert, Professor at Goldsmiths University of London. She is also editor-in-chief of a new journal titled “Big Data and Society” and dedicated her lecture to “Reflection on …
New imaging technology to design and build greener and safer aircraft
by Thomas Blumensath via Computational Intensive Imaging Blog
The University of Southampton is helping to develop new imaging technology to be used in the design, manufacture and maintenance for current and future generations of carbon composite aircraft. Led by QinetiQ, the UK consortium of the University of Southampton and University College London (UCL) and four companies in ProjectCAN brings together world leaders from […]
Web Science Student presents on Re-identification Risk and Personal Data Challenges at the Cabinet Office
by Lisa Harris via WSI | WSI
Alison Knight – a Web Science PhD Student, a Research Fellow with Southampton Law School and member of the Super Identity research team – was invited to talk to the Open Data User Group and members of the Cabinet Office Transparency Team on 15 January 2015. Alison, who is who is a specialist in digital identity, privacy and data protection …
22nd January: one day, three WSI events!
by Lisa Harris via WSI | WSI
1. Annotating and editing video for supporting blended and online learning 22nd January in 34/1020. Food will be available from 12 and the talk will take place from 12.30pm to 1.30pm In this informal WSI lunch Professor Mike Wald from ECS and his team will discuss work on a WSI Research Collaboration Stimulus Fund Project focused around “Synote”. This suite …
Self-employment and the feminist future – the women’s cooperative WeiberWirtschaft
by Silke Roth via Work Thought Blog
Since the beginning of the economic crisis in 2008, there has been a significant increase of women’s self-employment. However, women are still under represented among the self-employed. Obstacles to female entrepreneurship include lack of capital and affordable office space, in particular for small organizations. The women’s cooperative WeiberWirtschaft (women’s economy) was founded to address these […]
Femininity, interactive service work and social mobility: reflections from Russia
by Charlie Walker via Work Thought Blog
In their recent book Shopgirls, Cox and Hobley illustrate that the connection between retail and qualities traditionally associated with femininity developed in conjunction with women’s gradual entrance into the service sector labour market from the late 19th Century. Alongside their association with femininity, customer-facing forms of service sector employment have also had a historical association […]
Migrant Workers in the UK – it’s time to talk
by Catherine Pope via Work Thought Blog
If the people who study elections are to be believed the UK Independence Party may take a second parliamentary seat in the Rochester by-election on 20th November. Mark Reckless, the UKIP candidate has made much in his campaign of the need to ‘get a grip’ on migration into the UK and has perpetuated ideas that […]