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Civic hackathons have become a popular, experimental process through which to promote public access to open government data and enable innovative civic uses for the information. The International Space Apps Challenge, led by NASA, is a high-profile event, promoting the use of space-derived data with the aim of contributing solutions to 'grand challenges' such as environmental sustainability. Central to the civic hackathons are the concepts of 'stewardship,' and 'usefulness'. The study explores the promises and realities of civic hacking through analysis of the aims of the organisers, perspectives of participants and the event's outcomes, concluding that hackathon peer processes promote networks for knowledge transfer. ; Sumen Rai, Mary Griffiths

Currently, there is a trend away from the use of single (often conservative) estimates of risk to summarize the results of risk analyses in favor of stochastic methods which provide a more complete characterization of risk. The use of such stochastic methods leads to a distribution of possible values of risk, taking into account both uncertainty and variability in all of the factors affecting risk. In this article, we propose a general framework for the analysis of uncertainty and variability for use in the commonly encountered case of multiplicative risk models, in which risk may be expressed as a product of two or more risk factors. Our analytical methods facilitate the evaluation of overall uncertainty and variability in risk assessment, as well as the contributions of individual risk factors to both uncertainty and variability which is cumbersome using Monte Carlo methods. The use of these methods is illustrated in the analysis of potential cancer risks due to the ingestion of radon in drinking water.

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mencari makna Pura Agung Surya Bhuvana di Jayapura dalam membangun kerukunan di Tanah Papua. Kehidupan orang Jayapura identik dengan kerusuhan yang sering terjadi. Hal itu tampak berbeda sehubungan dengan kehidupan Bali diaspora dekat Pura Agung Surya Bhuvana ditandai dengan kerukunan antar-umat beragama. Kajian difokuskan pada dua masalah: Mengapa orang non-Hindu di Jayapura sering mengunjungi Pura Agung Surya Bhuvana? Bagaimana mereka memahami Pura Agung Surya Bhuvana di era global ini? Penelitian kualitatif mengumpulkan data melalui teknik observasi, wawancara, FGD, dan studi dokumen. Data dianalisis dengan teori religi, teori simbol, dan teori struktural-fungsional. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa keramahan orang Bali diaspora yang mengelola Pura Agung Surya Bhuvana membuat orang non-Hindu merasa disambut saat mengunjungi pura. Komunitas Bali diaspora di Jayapura memaknai Pura Agung Surya Bhuvana sebagai tempat persembahyangan, tempat pertemuan para umat berbeda agama, tempat bersenian, tempat untuk memperkuat kehidupan multi-kultur dan sebagai media untuk memperkuat integrasi nasional.Kata kunci: Bali diaspora, makna pura agung surya bhuvana, harmoni kehidupan beragama, era global.