Journal ArticleJournal of Integrated Global STEM · November 1, 2024
The public interest suggests a singular approach to a social good, but lessons from history illustrate the nuances of sharing open space, transportation networks, and policy mandates. Serving the public exists across a spectrum of possibilities. In this es ...
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Book · January 1, 2023
Predictive data science is often viewed as a public good, yet too often human needs are pitted against the financial interests of large digital infrastructures. Can data science truly serve the public interest? The question of our time is whether the promi ...
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OtherThe Hill Newspaper. Editorial · April 28, 2022
Would we trust the lawyer who advocated a case for just one day? Then why do we trust technologists who build demos and disappear? Imagine a defense lawyer who slips into court only once and, before leaving, gives all the evidence to the prosecution and ...
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ConferenceProceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences · January 1, 2022
Our collaboration seeks to demonstrate shared interrogation by exploring the ethics of machine learning benchmarks from a socio-technical management perspective with insight from public health and ethnic studies. Benchmarks, such as ImageNet, are annotated ...
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Journal ArticleBritish Journal of Political Science · October 9, 2021
The Internet Archive curated a 90-terabyte sub-collection of captures from the US government's public website domain ('.gov'). Such archives provide largely untapped resources for measuring attributes, behaviors and outcomes relevant to political science r ...
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Journal ArticleTransforming Government People Process and Policy · November 23, 2020
Purpose: Open data resources contain few signals for assessing their suitability for data analytics. The purpose of this paper is to characterize the uncertainty experienced by open data consumers with a framework based on economic theory. Design/methodolo ...
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Journal ArticleAies 2020 Proceedings of the Aaai ACM Conference on AI Ethics and Society · February 7, 2020
As AI (and associated AI-hype) grows more pervasive in our lives, its impact on society is ever more significant, raising ethical concerns and challenges regarding issues such as privacy, safety and security, surveillance, inequality, data handling and bia ...
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ConferenceFat 2020 Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness Accountability and Transparency · January 27, 2020
The moral authority of ethics codes stems from an assumption that they serve a unified society, yet this ignores the political aspects of any shared resource. The sociologist Howard S. Becker challenged researchers to clarify their power and responsibility ...
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Journal ArticleThe Colorado Technology Law Journal · October 1, 2017
The United States optimizes the efficiency of its growing criminal justice system with algorithms however, legal scholars have overlooked how to frame courtroom debates about algorithmic predictions. In State v Loomis, the defense argued that the court’s c ...
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ConferenceACM International Conference Proceeding Series · June 7, 2017
This exploratory interpretive case study investigated the collaborative potential of open government data available through data.gov, the US federal open data catalog. Open data is a central aspect of open government collaboration because it fosters exchan ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2016
Interoperability sets standards for consistency when integrating information from multiple sources. Trends in e-government have encouraged the production of digital information yet it is not clear if the data produced are interoperable. The objective of th ...
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Conference2015 Americas Conference on Information Systems Amcis 2015 · January 1, 2015
We use social network analysis to better understand historic data on the administration of local governments. Despite advances in e-government applications, the public sector lags behind in analytics because information is locked in legacy data formats. Ca ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2015
Interoperability sets standards for consistency when integrating information from multiple sources. Trends in e-government have encouraged the production of digital information yet it is not clear if the data produced are interoperable. The objective of th ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Policy Research · January 1, 2014
Reliable public sector information serves as a pivotal source for big data. Government postal codes, for instance, have been crucial for predicting demographics. Confidentiality, however, may be at risk when combined with other sources. Public sector infor ...
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ConferenceProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · January 1, 2014
We describe a research activity carried out during January-April 2014, seeking to increase engagement between the natural language processing research community and social science scholars. In this activity, participants were offered a corpus of text relev ...
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Journal ArticleCommunications of the Association for Information Systems · September 28, 2009
Since its inception in the early 1990s,the World Wide Web (Web) has grown enormously. According to the "official Google blog" (Google 2008), the Web had 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique coexisting URL's as of July 25, 2008. Given the exponential ...
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ConferenceProceedings of the ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries · December 22, 2008
We discuss the use of web metrics at four digital libraries, the Instructional Architect, the Library of Congress, the National Science Digital Library, and WGBH Teachers' Domain. We describe practical issues involved in implementing and using web metrics ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Encyclopedia of Organization Studies · January 6, 2008
Simulation replicates aspects of real environments through models. A computer-based simulation replicates an environment through a computer program designed to consider multiple variables, interactions, and system constraints. Computer-based simulation is ...
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ConferenceFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications · January 1, 2007
Since the 1990s many legislatures have made their documents and activities available to the public through the Internet. While this initial phase of transparency met some needs, it is no longer sufficient simply to make legislative documents available elec ...
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Algorithms are increasingly common in the world. Research exists on the “math” behind algorithms (O’Neil, 2016). But less research looks at how algorithms are deployed in practice, and there is limited research on algorithmic phenomena from a qualitative p ...
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How does artificial intelligence disrupt institutions? Scholars have highlighted that AI crosses boundaries between public and private in a network that unites platforms, governments, corporations, and finance in tight configurations. The entanglement of o ...
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