The term "open source" refers to software whose source code has been made freely available to everyone and is accompanied by licenses that facilitate its reuse or adaptation to different contexts. The concept also embodies a culture that promotes the exchange of ideas and values collaboration to improve the code of others. The movement upholds its legacy of collaboration … [Read more...] about Open-Source technology: concepts and applications
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How does AI work? Consider the Iceberg Model
When it comes to thinking about how artificial intelligence works, at some level, all AI projects are primarily data projects. In order to help think about projects from this perspective, we’ve developed a model which breaks down the essential AI aspect of any project into three main phases: 1) Prepare the relevant data, 2) Train the algorithm(s) and 3) Test the trained … [Read more...] about How does AI work? Consider the Iceberg Model
Powering the Zika Response with Open Collaboration
Leer blogpost en español A lack of information sharing has posed major challenges to the international medical and emergency response community in the recent past. The criticisms raised during the Ebola crisis serve to illustrate this point. To address these “deficiencies with existing data-sharing mechanisms,” the World Health Organization (WHO) published a call to … [Read more...] about Powering the Zika Response with Open Collaboration
The Inter-American Development Bank adopts Creative Commons
Leer a versión en español By Alyson Williams, Embedded Librarian Team Leader at the Felipe Herrera Library - IDB Recently, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) opened its knowledge by adopting Creative Commons (CC) licenses for all IDB Publications. Starting January 2015, working papers, technical notes, books, monographs, dataset and databases published after January … [Read more...] about The Inter-American Development Bank adopts Creative Commons