Yesterday I went to Madrid to attend the Ibero-American Meeting of Citizen Innovation and Citizen Laboratories (Lab Meeting Iberoamericano 2018). This is an initiative organized by Unión de Ciudades y Capitales Iberoamericanas (UCCI) and Medialab Prado with the collaboration of the Citizen Innovation Program of Secretaría General Iberoamericana (SEGIB). The event is meeting place for … More Lab Meeting Iberoamericano
The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2018) has taken place in Barcelona for its 2018 edition. From Tuesday to Friday, the conference has brought together researchers and practitioners from different fields to exchange of ideas/practices related to social networks analysis. In my case, the venue became a great … More IEEE/ACM ASONAM 2018
I’m nearing the end of the third year of my PhD and, for the third consecutive time, I have attended the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). In ICWSM-16 I presented my (2nd) master thesis, and the demo paper which inaugurated the list of publications of my PhD research. One year later, the first full paper … More AAAI ICWSM 2018
This weekend, the second edition of Maker Faire Barcelona is being held at the Pavelló Italià and CaixaForum in Montjuïc. The faire is a meeting place for engineers, artists, scientists, crafters and any citizen interested in the many facets of the Maker Movement, e.g., technology, arts, craftsmanship, science, and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) culture. My participation … More Maker Faire BCN 2018
Today we have launched the citizen Democratic Innovation Lab of Barcelona, based on the Fàbrica de Creació Fabra i Coats. This has been designed as an open space to solve urban challenges in an intelligent, participatory and democratic manner following the principles and methdology of the Decidim project and the Metadecidim community. To inaugurate the laboratory, … More Democratic Innovation Lab
I went yesterday to Valencia to participate in the third edition of TechFest, a two-day event of workshops and conferences about civic participation systems and technology. This event was organized by the Cátedra de Transparencia y Gestión de Datos at Universitat Politècnica de València, which is promoted by the Area of Transparency, Social Responsibility, Participation and Cooperation … More TechFest18
It is always a pleasure to be back home. Last week I went to Zaragoza (my home city) to attend the Foro de Transparencia e Innovación Democrática held at Edificio Pignatelli between 25 and 27 of April. The conference was organized by the Government of Aragón to boost data journalism and data visualization, promote networking … More Foro de Transparencia e Innovación Democrática
Today I went to Milton Keynes to give a talk on Characterizing participation in online discussion platforms at the Knowledge Media Institute. The talk covered the main content of the previous talk at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, based on the main findings of my PhD research to date (supported by the Spanish Ministry … More Knowledge Media Institute Seminar
My recent visit to London included more activities in addition to the NGI Engineroom workshop. First, on Thurday night I had the chance to attend the second seminar of the Cook the Books Club curated by Aleksi Knuutila and Zosia Sztykowski. Besides the interest of the selected paper about the analysis of controllability in corporate … More 12th Databeers London
This week I went to London to attend the meeting of Engineroom, an EU funded project to set the research agenda of the Next Generation Internet. The consortium of the project (Nesta, Eurecat and DELab at the University of Warsaw) organised two days of activities at the new offices of Nesta. First, on the 21st … More NGI Engineroom: Workshop
Pablo Aragón 