[Reblog]: Why open data and accountability are not the same thing

by Emily Shaw JUNE 4, 2014, 1:55 P.M. As advocates both for transparency and for open data, we spend quite a lot of time at Sunlight thinking about precisely how open data relates to government transparency. Though my colleagues and I have provided many examples of how open data can be used to improve transparency, we also know…

Fonte: CERN CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Friday 30 May to discuss the potential for dialogue between science, philosophy and religions http://home.web.cern.ch/images/2014/06/dg-and-pope Image credit: Photographic Service – L’Osservatore Romano

Concorsi per 20 tecnologi a tempo indeterminato INFN: riaperti i termini

L‘INFN ha riaperto i termini di alcuni dei 20 concorsi per tecnologo di III livello professionale a tempo indeterminato presso le sedi di Frascati, Bari, Bologna, Genova, Legnaro e Roma. La nuova scadenza per la presentazione delle domande è fissata al 23 giugno 2014. Le lauree richieste sono state modificate e vanno da informatica a ingegneria informatica,…

Madia, rivoluzione@governo.it e il cherry-picking

Definizione di cherry-picking da Wikipedia: Cherry picking, suppressing evidence, or the fallacy of incomplete evidence is the act of pointing to individual cases or data that seem to confirm a particular position, while ignoring a significant portion of related cases or data that may contradict that position. It is a kind of fallacy of selective attention, the most…