Data Literacy - What is it and how can we make it happen?

Data Literacy - What is it and how can we make it happen?

The preceding special issue of this journal highlighted the enormous potential of the growing open data movement for social change and sustainable development (Sharif and Van Schalkwyk 2016). Others have emphasised its potential for economic development (Iemma 2012; Stott 2014; Vickery 2011), transparency and accountability (Geiger and von Lucke 2012; Janssen 2011, 2012; Meijer, Curtin, and Hil...

We can make it happen

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Adaptive developmental plasticity: what is it, how can we recognize it and when can it evolve?

Developmental plasticity describes situations where a specific input during an individual's development produces a lasting alteration in phenotype. Some instances of developmental plasticity may be adaptive, meaning that the tendency to produce the phenotype conditional on having experienced the developmental input has been under positive selection. We discuss the necessary assumptions and pred...

Knowledge Transfer: Can KM Make it Happen?

Is life what we make of it?

Although astrobiological or SETI detections are possible, actual invasions of sentient extra-terrestrials or plagues of escaped alien microbes are unlikely. Therefore, an anthropological perspective on the question suggests that in the event of a detection, the vast majority of humanity will be dealing not with extra-terrestrial life itself (whether intelligent or not, local or distant), but wi...