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<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">difusion <<a href="mailto:difusion@medialab-prado.es">difusion@medialab-prado.es</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">September 8, 2009 2:28:09 PM GMT+01:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">difusion <<a href="mailto:difusion@medialab-prado.es">difusion@medialab-prado.es</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>LAST MONTH: Call for Projects and Papers on Public Data Visualization (Madrid)</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <h2><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Visualizar'09: Public Data, Data in Public<br> Call for projects and papers</font></h2> <font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br> </font><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>International Workshop-Seminar on Public Data Visualization<br> November 12 - 27, 2009 in Medialab-Prado (Madrid, Spain)<br> Seminar: November 12 and 13<br> <br> Deadline for projects and papers: October 5, 2009</b><br> </font><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Call for collaborators: October 16 - November 11, 2009</b><br> <br> </font><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://medialab-prado.es/visualizar">http://medialab-prado.es/visualizar</a><br> <br> </font><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Directed by José Luis de Vicente. </font><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> Teachers: Ben Cerveny (Stamen), Aaron Koblin, and Manuel Lima. With the support of Bestiario.<br> </font><p><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">This new edition will focus on the implications of using data structure visualization to aid in public processes of decision-making. Selected projects and papers will tackle the topic of Open Data and Visualization for Government Transparency and Civic Engagement.<br> </font></p><p><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Visualizar'09 includes an<b> international seminar </b>and an <b>advanced project development workshop</b>. Both activities will be aimed at the discussion about transparency of data to make public discussion and debate possible, regarding the political, social, and scientific processes. Consequently, one of the objectives of Visualizar'09 will be the development of new strategies for communicating these data and returning them to the public domain.<br> </font></p><p><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Projects will be on showcase until January 2010 at the Medialab-Prado.<br> </font></p><p><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">All those interested in collaborating in one of the selected projects can sign in from<b> October 16 to November 11</b>. <br> </font></p><p><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br> <b>Submission of databases:</b></font></p><p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Public databases of institutions or research groups interested in sharing them and making them more available to citizens can be sent to visualizar[arroba]medialab-prado.es or through <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://medialab-prado.es/visualizar">http://medialab-prado.es/visualizar</a><br> </font></p> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Submitted databases could serve as work material for data visualization projects selected for this workshop.<br> <br> </font><p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>More information:</b><br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://medialab-prado.es/article/convocatoria_de_proyectos__visualizar_09_datos_publicos_datos_en_publico"><font color="#000000">http://medialab-prado.es/article/convocatoria_de_proyectos__visualizar_09_datos_publicos_datos_en_publico</font></a><br> </font><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> <br> visualizar(arroba)medialab-prado.es</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br> </font></p> <font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><small><br> With the support of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology - Ministry of Science and Innovation (FECYT - Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación)<br> </small></font><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br> </font> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
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