D-CENT: The Spanish Lean Inception Workshop

Source: http://dcentproject.eu/2014/02/the-spanish-lean-inception-workshop/ On the 8th – 14th of February D-CENT partners travelled to Barcelona, Spain, for a workshop organized by the partner University of Catalunya (UOC). The six-day session involved intensive meetings with local communities, drawing tech visions and sharing experiences. In Spain, our goal was to understand the local context better and explore overlaps and … More D-CENT: The Spanish Lean Inception Workshop

D-CENT: Kick-off meeting

From November 10 to 12, I went to London to the kick-off meeting of D-CENT project, selected under the first FP7 call of Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation. The agenda included a meeting where the partners explained the corresponding work packages. In my case, as researcher of Barcelona Media, I explained, with my colleagues … More D-CENT: Kick-off meeting

UAM: Innovation and social networks in public administrations

The Universidad Autónoma de Madrid organized the Summer Course “Innovation and social networks in government: transparency, participation and collaboration”  between September 4 and 6. This course, directed by the associate professor J. Ignacio Criado, was to make an approach to the use of social networks in the three levels of Spanish public administration, defining its characteristics, identifying some of the best … More UAM: Innovation and social networks in public administrations

15MP2P Conference

The 15M movement is part of a wave of protests that began in 2011 which generated a new global political cycle. This global wave is characterized by the occupation of the urban space and the strategic use of digital communication networks, which express a new self-organized collective behavior and, also, a new paradigm of political … More 15MP2P Conference

15Mdata Hackaton

In the last weekend, the first 15Mdata Hackathon was held at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (theoretical session on Friday) and Ateneu Candela (practical session on Saturday). The event on Friday began with a presentation of our research group (datAnalysis15m) by Arnau Monterde and Javier Toret. Arnau Monterde detailed the following goals for the present year: To establish a … More 15Mdata Hackaton

Data Visualization: Mobile World Congress 2013

The Mobile World Congress (MWC2013) has generated nearly 100,000 tweets per day, making it to a Twitter trending topic in Spain between February 25, 10am and 26 February 7pm. In Barcelona Media Research Foundation (member of Tecnio network) we have analyzed tweets containing ‘MWC’, ‘MWC13’ and/or ‘Mobile World’. The animated map shows the impact of … More Data Visualization: Mobile World Congress 2013

International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics WIMS’11

Last week, the preliminary schedule of “The International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics” (WIMS’11) was published . The congress will held numerous conferences, workshops and tutorials boarding a wide range of topics related to information retrieval, semantic processing and text mining processes. In the Session “Social Network Analysis” I will have the opportunity … More International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics WIMS’11

Presentación del PFC

Éxodo 34:29 “Y aconteció que descendiendo Moisés del monte Sinaí con las dos tablas del testimonio en su mano, al descender del monte, no sabía Moisés que la piel de su rostro resplandecía, después que hubo hablado con Dios”. Lunes 21 de junio:  “Y aconteció que descendiendo Aragón de la Stylo con los 3 tomos … More Presentación del PFC