The problem this blockchain project is trying to solve is allowing a number of people to create a knowledge product in a decentralized way, without a person dictating who should contribute and who should not. Whose contribution to the knowledge product will be accepted or rejected is done by a consensus of all participating members. The system should allow transparently assessing and scoring the contribution of each of the participant to the final product. The system should also allow…

We start from the principle that natural language is too complex for computer programs, that’s why it is difficult to have simple programs that can mine natural language in an effective way. Therefore, if we could find a way to simplify the language, it would make it easier to design computer-assisted knowledge management programs. The proposed approach is to simplify the natural language into sequences of predefined keywords. The translation from the natural language to the list of keywords…

During a session of the 46th session of the UN Statistical Commission on the the post-2015 development agenda, UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson said data will be the “lifeblood of decision-making and the raw material for accountability” in the new agenda and called for a statistical framework that would meet such expectations (…

Big data is giving promises of new opportunities for official statistics. But at the same time, it is raising issues of confidentiality. With massive data sets being made available, re-identification can be a real threat to confidentiality.

What if we could allow people to link different datasets for their studies, but put a limit to the number of datasets they can link? This way, it will never be possible to get all the records on an individual, even though it is still possible to…