Have you ever heard of open data? We asked Isaia Invernizzi, data journalist at il Post , to explain the open data issue. He says: "I believe that we need not only more open data, but also better data: not just quantity, but also quality." Read the full interview to discover more information about open data and how it could improve our society.
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The ecovillages are experiments attempted to recreate a “return to origins”: the most concrete evolution of the modern communal movement from a sustainable point of view.
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Europe counts more than a hundred: from Christiania, Copenhagen’s free city active since 1971 to the Findhorn Foundation in Great Britain and the German Lebengarden. Have you ever visited one of these places?
In 1997, Canadian student Alana decided to found a small blog called "Alana's Involuntary Celibacy Project" to find and support people who (like her) were encountering difficulties in establishing interpersonal relationships, because of shyness.
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The concept of “Involuntary Celibacy” shifted over time, since some male users chose it to represent their conviction that women refused them on account of their appearance or some personality traits. We are dealing with Incels, notorious because of the mass murders of the last years in North America. While the incel culture has been explored more comprehensively, its female counterpart has always been ignored.
Nowayadys, singers don't produce many singles and albums. Why?
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There are many reasons, but the main of them is that they prefer working also in other sectors like fashion or TV business, because the music isn't profitable enough.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, women are changing their society and in particular the artisanal mining sector.
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Since 2006, women have started to unite in associations and have gotten together around a tightly-knit network known by the French acronym of RENAFEM (National Network of Women in Mining). Women feel the need to demand their own rights by escaping the dominating framework of total subjugation towards men. RENAFEM has proven to be a powerful network, helping thousands of women self-determinate and liberate themselves from stereotypes.
Many people think that Twitter isn't really important nowadays, compared to Facebook and other social networks.
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Actually, it influences many people all over the world expecially with its viral hashtags. #Metoo is a clear exemple of a worldwide phenomenon, but also US elections and other political, environmental, cultural, social but also private and personal issues. Does Twitter represent our real life?
Jacinta Ardern won the elections in New Zealand. She is the leader of the Labour party, that managed so well the first lockdown that only few people were affected by Covid-19, compared to other states of the world.
She is highly appreciated by the citizens because of her behavior, determination and courage. Ardern has also created one of the most inclusive parliament in the whole world.
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In 1918, the Spanish flu forced the nascent silent film industry to stop. Today, just over 100 years later, the situation is the same.
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Making reliable estimates about the coming year is complicated, but resisting the impact of the Coronavirus will not be easy even for film studios.
How much did Donald J. Trump and Joe Biden spend in Facebook ADS during these elections? Using the Facebook AD Library we deeply studied their investment. In fact, AD Library provides the ads transparency across Facebook apps, services and Instagram too.
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Fintech’s Chinese ant.
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Ant is a company owned by Jack Ma, the e-commerce giant who has revolutionized the field of mobile payments. We are speaking of
15 thousand billions. This is the amount of money managed in the thousands of transactions made on Alipay, the finance app founded in 2004 by the Alibaba group.