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Civic Hacking for the Right to Know and the Right to Privacy
, 2021 The involvement of civic hackers in national and international crisis mitigation efforts as digital first responders has been widely discussed (Palen et al., 2010).
Lee, Geunhee
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, 2020 A new wave of enthusiasm for smart cities, urban data, and the Internet of Things has created the impression that computation can solve almost any urban problem.
Marvin, S. +3 more
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Advancing Financial Capability Among Teachers in Outlying Urban Areas Through Digital Finance
International Journal of Applied Research in Business and ManagementThere is a lack of research investigating the potential of digital finance tools and solutions to improve the financial capabilities of peri-urban teachers in South Africa. Thus, the objective of this study was to examine the influence of digital finance
Nkosinathi Prince Jali +1 more
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Hacking as Adaptation: A New Agenda for Planning Through the Lens of Copenhagen's Sharing Economy
, 2016 This thesis examines the impacts of entrepreneurial initiatives in associated with Copenhagen’s sharing economy, in an effort to understand the role of hacking in adapting to given socioeconomic, political, or environmental conditions.
Patel, Isha
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Hacking the pipes: Hydro-political currents in a Nairobi housing estate [PDF]
, 2021 Nairobi’s water supply reflects broader dynamics of urban resource distribution, politics and power relations. Continuous disinvestment into the city’s large technological system of water supply has contributed to extreme water shortages in some parts of
Ibrahim, Basil, Schramm, S.
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CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has typical advancements in the healthcare sector with rapid potential proof for decentralised communication systems that have been applied for collecting and monitoring COVID‐19 patient data. Machine Learning algorithms typically use the risk score of each patient based on risk factors, which could help ...
Chandramohan Dhasaratha +9 more
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EPISTEMIC EXTRACTIVISM IN ENGAGED URBAN AND HOUSING RESEARCH: Implications and Counter‐measures
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract What is ‘epistemic extractivism’, and how does it affect researchers who are engaged in urban and housing movements? This essay first explores the contexts of both engaged research and epistemic extractivism, clarifying their meanings and implications. It also disentangles the ethical and methodological risks posed by epistemic extractivism in
Miguel A. Martínez
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Connessioni remoteContemporary surveillance regimes no longer rely on concealment but operate through hypervisibility, subsuming subjects into networks of algorithmic governance where exposure functions as a mode of control. The present article interrogates the aesthetic
Massimiliano Raffa
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THE ANALOG CITY: Maintaining Everyday Life Through Repair and Jugaad
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban scholarship consistently discusses improvisation and heterogeneity as central to urban life in the global South. In this article, I bring together scholarship on urban improvisation and the digital world of smart cities to understand the city as analog.
Julia Corwin
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article outlines possibilities for counter configurations of data‐based urbanisms, whereby data practices, rather than reproducing logics of urban entrepreneurialism and smart‐city governance, are made from within urban peripheral territories.
Andrés Luque‐Ayala, Rodrigo Firmino
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