Our online toolkit focusing on women's rights campaigning has just arrived from the printers in hard copy: four brightly-coloured booklets. We're looking forward to the next phase - distribution!
Hot off the design presses of our Tactical Studios, a new guide from UN Women and Publish What You Pay focuses on integrating gender perspectives into natural resource governance.
What exactly led to the termination of promising open data project schooloscope.com? Mushon Zer-Aviv takes an in-depth look, in a guest post on our Visualising Information for Advocacy blog.
To support the release of Laura Poitras's film Citizenfour, we've started a new blog series on the Snowden revelations. The first post, 'Three (scary) things Snowden taught us about surveillance', is now online.
How does the internet work? How do we connect to websites? How do our devices talk to other devices in the network? New on Myshadow.org.
We've compiled a list of things that, taken together, offer a look at big data from a variety of angles - articles, art, academic research, fiction, non-fiction, reports, white papers, movies and videos.
(Image: Timo Toots' big data art installation Memopol-2 in KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia, 2011)
"Reason number 5: Our data tells a story about us, which may or may not be true. If your data says that you are a terrorist, it's your word against your government's." Nine more reasons here.
How do we leave digital traces? Why should we care? Watch our new animation.
Aaaand... our book has finally been released into the digital wild! Free! You can now download all 160 pages in a PDF, which also offers a sneak preview of the book's new cover. (Watch this space for the 2nd edition launch in hard copy).
DOWNLOAD THE BOOK!
September was a sad month for our little ONO Robot, star of Tactical Tech's animated series Survival in the Digital Age. He's been forced to change his name (we've re-named him ONOnymous), and to give up his website, due to a copyright claim filed against Tactical Tech by big Spanish telecommunications company Cableuropa. Read more here.
