Presentation to National Academy of Science workshop on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings Using Social Media. I argued that the citizen science model, in which volunteers contribute to substantive scientific research, is a great model for how to involve the general public in making accurate, actionable social media posts (Twitter, Twitvid, Facebook) that...
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Catching up with – W David Stephenson & Paul F. Levy | Free Our Data and Improve Public Health
This ran in the current issue of the Boston Business Journal: By Paul F. Levy and W. David Stephenson Massachusetts has a stunning opportunity to break open many of the mysteries surrounding delivery of health care. Doing so will help resolve important public policy issues. It will help contain rising health care expenses. And,...
Catching up with W David Stephenson | I’m back [sort of]
June 19 2011 It’s been more than three years since I wandered off full-time into Twitterdom, and this blog fell dormant. Let me tell you, after disciplining myself to write nothing but 140-character summaries, writing a 200+ page book was tough. But write it I did, and now I’m back, because my book, Data...
Networked Homeland Security: transforming the public from pawns to partners
I will discuss a new paradigm for homeland security strategy that directly addresses many of the problems brought to light by Katrina, and one in which each of us will play a role. It’s called Networked Homeland Security. Or, as I sometimes call it when I’m trying to get a rise out of someone...
Cybersecurity Strategy: from Hierarchies to Smart Swarms
Address to the Boston University Center for Reliable Information Systems and Cyber Security Thanks for the kind introduction. But let me tell you a little more about myself: not out of egotism, but because people like you and people like me don’t always get a chance to talk to each other....
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