#politics #science #AntiScience #BigData #research #PublicGood

"No one knows when the next alert or request to save a chunk of US government-held climate data will come in. Such data, long available online, keeps getting taken down by US President Donald Trump's administration. For the last six months, Cathy Richards has been entrenched in the response. She works for one of several organisations bent on downloading and archiving public data before it disappears."

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250422-usa-scientists-race-to-save-climate-data-before-its-deleted-by-the-trump-administration?ocid=global_future_rss

Why Geological Maps Are The Best Investment You’ve Never Heard Of - Investments In Geological Mapping Paid Off Big Time For Americans.
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https://www.zmescience.com/science/geology/why-geological-maps-are-the-best-investment-youve-never-heard-of/ <-- shared opinion piece
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https://profession.americangeosciences.org/reports/geological-mapping-economics/ <-- shared technical cost-benefit analysis
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https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/gsa/positions/position3.aspx <-- shared 2003 GSA appraisal
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[I am, of course, biased in this regard, but I also like well-presented metrics – and use cases being met are my favourite!]
#geology #value #cost #mapping #cartography #cartographic #USA #costbenefit #geologicmapping #metrics #usecase #fedscience #appliedscience #engineeringgeology #spatial #GIS #construction #resources #naturalresources #engineering #risk #hazard #naturaldisasters #payoff #investment #massmovement #groundwater #waterresources #water #hydrology #rareearth #minerals #mining #oilandgas #exploration #underground #money #economics #publicgood #publicvalue #investment

The Conversation: Software is increasingly being built by AI – so it’s vital to know if it can be trusted. “Software developers are already very familiar with tools such as GitHub Copilot, a kind of ChatGPT for programmers. It works something like a smart autocomplete tool to increase the productivity of human programmers. But we are now witnessing a more radical revolution, where AI […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/13/the-conversation-software-is-increasingly-being-built-by-ai-so-its-vital-to-know-if-it-can-be-trusted/

University of Cambridge: Harmful effects of digital tech – the science ‘needs fixing’, experts argue. “Scientific research on the harms of digital technology is stuck in a ‘failing cycle’ that moves too slowly to allow governments and society to hold tech companies to account, according to two leading researchers in a new report published in the journal Science.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/12/university-of-cambridge-harmful-effects-of-digital-tech-the-science-needs-fixing-experts-argue/

In the #Trump Regime, the #Environment is not considered a #PublicGood.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5242921-trump-executive-order-environmental-protections-sunset/

"Data2Action exists to make emerging technology work harder for humanity, enabling us to co-create a healthier, fairer and more sustainable world for all. [...]

We’re recruiting *13 funded doctoral fellows from Europe and beyond* to work collaboratively across a range of interconnected cutting-edge research and development projects."

#HorizonEurope #UKResearchAndInnovation #UKRI #MarieCurie #MSCA #DoctoralNetwork #PhD #DataScience #Data2Action #SocialInnovation #SocialImpact #LivingLabs #CoCreation #Collaboration #Transdisciplinary #Dissemination #Communication #NetworkBuilding #CommonGood #AI #CuttingEdge
#Technology #Humanity #Health #Fairness #Sustainability #SustainableWorld #PublicGood #SocialPioneers #ArtificalIntelligence
#SectoralExperts #Society #RealWorldSolutions #ClimateChange #SocialJustice #Democracy #Aging #People #Planet

http://www.data2action.eu

The #assetization of #automobility through #paywalling can affect the ecology of automobility in ways that entrench powerful + moneyed interests while undermining #ConsumerWelfare + the #PublicGood

Bricolageyumyum.bsky.social & mcforelle.bsky.social: https://doi.org/pcgp

"[@wikipedia] has officially been recognized as a digital public good [...] by the Digital Public Goods Alliance [which is] endorsed by the United Nations Secretary-General in support of open source technologies that contribute to the advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals."

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/02/12/wikipedia-recognized-as-a-digital-public-good/

Really excited to be starting to focus more and more of my time into building a better home for #OpenSource #Software, on top of @radicle - a peer-to-peer forge !

#GitHub and #Microsoft (or any $megacorp) cannot be trusted as the sole hosts of any #PublicGood, like #OpenSource.

It's time to take back some of that control, before it's too late.

With #Radicle, you can seed projects, like you seed #torrents - ensuring that they stay available, despite corporate agendas.

#FreeSoftware #OSS

„Reimagining #AI for the #PublicGood “ sounds to me like „reimagining racism for the public good“. It’s pretty obvious we need system change, not reform

"An archaeology of #knowledgegraphs and their mutation from the liberatory aspirations of the #semanticweb gives us an underexplored lens to understand contemporary #informationsystems. I explore how the ideology of cloud systems steers 2 NIH & NSF projects intended to build info #infrastructures for the #publicgood to inevitable corporate capture, facilitating the development of a new kind of multilayered public/private #surveillance system."
@jonny
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:54749/

Change doesn’t happen in isolation. 'From Apathy to Activism' teaches you how to mobilize others and harness the power of collective action to amplify your impact. Discover the strength of community-driven efforts and how you can play a pivotal role. https://rawsoninternetmarketing.com/community-activism-books/ #SocialChange #Activism #CommunityEmpowerment #PersonalGrowth #PublicGood

Late #introduction, but here it is: I am a Developer Advocate at https://dhis2.org, a #nonprofit #publicgood #opensource organization for #healthcare software.

Next to that, I'm a JavaScript developer with many years of cross-platform mobile app experience but in recent years more into NodeJS and experimenting all over the place, such as recently into #remix #nextjs.

I also am a #gamer #gaming. Mostly strategy, simulation games, such as #factorio, #planetzoo and soon #dwarffortress