Open and verified data saves lives!

In this week’s episode of the Upstream podcast, Luis Villa sits with Heather Leson, digital innovation lead at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and Monica Granados, assistant director of open climate at Creative Commons. Throughout the discussion, they’ll touch on many important topics including: open data standards and licenses, data playbooks, and bridging the gap between humanitarian offices and the tech industry with open data.

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https://preparecenter.org/toolkit/data-playbook-toolkit-v1/ https://spherestandards.org/handbook/

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-organization/open-perspectives/main/opening-up-social-impact-focused-organizations/opening-up-social-impact-focused-organizations.pdf&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1685037851844525&usg=AOvVaw0E0CJ5zGfkSJo8-FNLe2kq

https://www.anticipation-hub.org/

https://data.humdata.org/

https://prereview.org/

https://digitalpublicgoods.net/registry/

https://giga.global/

Will empathy help make our software development teams better?

In this week’s episode of the Upstream podcast, Luis Villa sits with Kellan Elliot-McCrea of Adobe and Adam Jacon, CEO of System Initiative. Should software development teams be a team sport or an orchestra rather than a factory? How should we handle generational changes within software development teams?. Why do large software companies give their employees free breakfast? Get answers to these questions and enjoy some fun anecdotes about mastering craps when stuck in Las Vegas.

Links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_(novel)

https://laughingmeme.org/2023/01/16/software-and-its-discontents-part-1.html

https://laughingmeme.org/2023/01/23/software-and-its-discontents-part-2-complexity.html

https://laughingmeme.org/2023/01/29/software-and-its-discontents-part-3-the-magic.html

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Let’s celebrate the joy of open source!

In this week’s episode of the Upstream podcast, Luis Villa sits with Annie Rauwerda of Depths of Wikipedia and Sumana Harihareswara, stand-up comedian and founder of Changeset Consulting, to discuss the goofy side of Wikipedia, puppet shows, Wikimania marriages, the emotions in programming, and the joy of finding community in these spaces.

Links:

https://buttondown.email/Changeset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Red_link https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Wikimania

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Ullmanhttps://www.popsci.com/technology/shared-data-a-short-story-from-an-alternate-future/

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