Friday, September 28, 2018

Sea Anemone, Baja, California: ZyLAB; City Innovate, Indexing houses in Google Street View in cities in all ~200 countries for legal tech and improving government and their I.T., Brainstorming-wise, how best to teach such law online (e.g. hire Stanford Law students who might be interested in becoming faculty to teach in online group video), and how could many different high-achieving and talented students (in ~200 countries' official languages) benefit for these learning opportunities - and perhaps in new ways, such as developing contracts with a city (in different countries to help improve their information technology, government accessibility and in the legal tech field especially) - to help their cities innovate I.T.-wise and legally? * * * To get an idea of Google Street View in a very early phase, visit the Harbin Hot Springs' gate in Google Street View here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ where you can "walk" down the road '4 miles' to Middletown and 'amble' around the streets there, if inclined. Check out the houses in Middletown, California; imagine legal documents in many languages associated with them. (Harbin Hot Springs is my actual-virtual ethnographic field site).


Dear Jay, Dee, Johannes and Roland,

Thanks for your excellent presentations at Stanford Law CodeX, Johannes, Jay and Dee. I'd like to re-visit your presentations again soon in the 'CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics'' Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL48E61C121CAD0E1B - but until then how might we explore developing student opportunities, perhaps entrepreneurially, to help with city innovation potentials, and in the legal tech space? As one example, I have the Dahlia project in mind, Dee - https://housing.sfgov.org/listings - which you mentioned in relation to Google, and I think you may have said in Google Street View, and with regard to further city legal tech innovations. Students here could entail Stanford Law and Stanford students, as well as online (CC-4 MIT OCW-centric in 5 languages) World University and School students in all ~200 countries' official / main languages. Some Tweets in these regards:

Thanks, @CodeXStanford for excellent @jcscholtes, @Jay_Nath & @deebrar presentations Th 9/27/18 

https://twitter.com/CodeXStanford/status/1045341934175174657 Re 'How do we unlock academic talent to work on the urgent challenges facing our cities?' How about every house in SF/cities into G Street View for Legal Tech+?


Johannes: Thank you #CodeX for yesterday’s invitation. It was a pleasure to present #ZyLAB ONE eDiscovery solution and our vision on how we use AI and data analytics to automate and support eDiscovery at #Stanford Law School. 
Your efforts to bring together research…

Jay: How do we unlock academic talent to work on the urgent challenges facing our cities? We need more scientists tackling congestion, the opioid crisis, and disaster response yet cities rarely ask for help or know how 

Dee: Always so inspired by our amazing program partners! #civicinnovation


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In developing World University and School, which is like Wikipedia in 300 languages with CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare in 5 languages, WUaS would like to matriculate students online for free-to-students' excellent and innovative education. WUaS seeks to create major online universities in each of all ~200 countries' official main languages to offer online free-to-students' accrediting Bachelor, Ph.D, Law, M.D. as well as I.B. high school degrees ... and eventually in a a realistic virtual earth (think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth / Translate / TensorFlow +). And while MIT doesn't have a law school, so there's no MIT OpenCourseWare for law, Stanford Law has about 10 international projects.

Re my questions yesterday, in this Google-centric vision (Wikipedia/Wikidata/Wikibase & MIT OCW in their languages too), both text-mining and, for example, Google Voice in its ~100+  languages would be facilitated among so much more.  

Brainstorming-wise, how best to teach such law online (e.g. hire Stanford Law students who might be interested in becoming faculty to teach in online group video), and how could many different high-achieving and talented students (in ~200 countries' official languages) benefit for these learning opportunities - and perhaps in new ways, such as developing contracts with a city (in different countries to help improve their information technology, government accessibility and in the legal tech field especially) - to help their cities innovate I.T.-wise and legally? 

How might we best explore this further? Thank you again for your excellent A.I. and city innovate presentations.

Best regards, Scott 
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To get an idea of Google Street View in a very early phase, 
visit the Harbin Hot Springs' gate in Google Street View here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ where you can "walk" down the road '4 miles' to Middletown and 'amble' around the streets there, if inclined. Check out the houses in Middletown, California; imagine legal documents in many languages associated with them. (Harbin Hot Springs is my actual-virtual ethnographic field site).

Thank you,
Scott



P.S. Here are some examples of other wiki subjects at WUaS (but which are not yet in other languages, to give you an idea of how WUaS works, and where MIT OCW courses for online credit can be found) - 
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Netherlands (not yet in Dutch, West Frisian, etc.)
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/India (not yet in Hindi, Punjabi, etc.)


Are here too are the beginning 

Law Schools at World University and School (planned in main languages in them)











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Indexing houses in Google Street View in cities in all ~200 countries for legal tech and improving government and their I.T.?



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[codex_group_meetings] TODAY! CodeX Mtg (9/27 @1.30p PT): ZyLAB; City Innovate; MOCI - SLS N112 (or via Zoom)

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 7:11 AM Roland Vogl <rvogl@law.stanford.edu> wrote:
Hi Everyone,

Our next CodeX meeting is today (September 27), from 1.30p to 2.30p PT, in Room N112 of the Neukom Building of SLS (or via Zoom link below).

Our guests will be:
Johannes C. Scholtes, Chief Strategy Officer and Chairman, ZyLAB. ZyLAB features an end-to-end eDiscovery platform using AI and data science tools. For 30+ years, ZyLAB has worked with corporations, law firms, and government to handle regulatory requests, eDiscovery, M&A, audits, and more. Mr. Scholtes' topic: "eDiscovery: Why More AI-based Automation and Support is essential for Today’s Legal Truth-Finding Missions."

Jay Nath, Co-Executive Director, City Innovate, a nonprofit exploring ways to improve procurement so that residents and government employees can benefit from emerging technologies. Mr. Nath will discuss City Innovate's flagship Startup in Residence (STIR), a 16-week program that partners government organizations with entrepreneurs to address civic challenges.

Amardeep ("Dee") Prasad, Director of Partnerships, City & County of San Francisco, Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation (MOCI). MOCI was established to help make government more collaborative, inventive, and responsive for San Franciscans, and works with city departments, community partners, and residents to drive impact on some of the City’s biggest challenges.  Ms. Prasad will describe MOCI's work, and San Francisco's participation in STIR. 

See you then!

Roland




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Thanks, Jay and Dee, for your emails!

Brainstorming-wise further, I've blogged a bit about this here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/09/sea-anemone-baja-california-zylab-city.html - and see a lot of potential re city innovation in actual-virtual, physical-digital developments and especially re robotics (e.g. for home repair, testing on SF City? / state of California sites and buildings, - with possible other test places in India and The Netherlands, for example?), - all of which will involve further legal tech, teaching legal tech, legal tech entrepreneurialism, and A.I. text mining in many languages, for example. Will reply to your individual emails separately.

Thank you, Scott

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Thanks, Dee!

- Scott

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WUaS's "City" and "Innovation" wiki subject are here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects
And Hindi and Punjabi language wiki subjects, and as wiki schools (not yet in Hindi or Punjabi), are accessible here:
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages



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Sea Anemone, Baja, California: ZyLAB; City Innovate, Indexing houses in Google Street View in CITIES in all ~200 countries for legal tech & improving government & their I.T.  - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/09/sea-anemone-baja-california-zylab-city.html For #ActualVirtual, #PhysicalDigital developments and especially re robotics



- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1045779918888435712

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Sea Anemone, Baja, California: ZyLAB; City Innovate, Indexing houses in Google Street View in CITIES in all ~200 countries for legal tech & improving government & their I.T.  - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/09/sea-anemone-baja-california-zylab-city.html For #RealisticVirtualEarth developments & especially re robotics @WUaSPress ~



- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1045780181749661696


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Hi Scott and Roland

Thank you for suggesting engaging students on making our cities better. Below are a couple of ideas on addressing urban challenges:

1) How might we streamline the matching and procurement of academic talent by cities?
2) How might we streamline the public-sector RFP and contracting process for startups? 

The thesis behind both opportunities is that cities are not utilizing the tremendous talent in universities and entrepreneurial communities to help address their challenges. The benefits are significant to both sectors:


For academic:
  • Work on problems that matter - qualified challenges identified and prioritized by the community.
  • Streamlined government procurement- enables rapid procurement of research, creating incentives and sustainable funding.
  • Plug and play community engagement - partner with local government, which act as a proxy for the community and has trusted relationships with community organizations.
  • Improving communities - researchers tackle civic and societal challenges directly
  • Enhanced educational opportunities - designing and executing experiments within a city ‘living lab’ provides a unique opportunity for researchers to learn, advance technology and integrative research, and strengthens researchers relationship with communities.
  • Attracting talent - People are increasingly drawn to purpose-driven organizations aligned with values like civic-mindedness. To attract the best talent, universities must be competitive in extending their role beyond teaching and pure research.

For communities:
  • Superior research insights and solutions - Having faculty and students address urban challenges gives local government agencies better access to scientific research and discoveries
  • Strengthening University-Community collaboration - By establishing a new bridge between academia and local government, both groups stand to gain significant value for collaborations

-Jay Nath


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Thanks, Jay and Roland,

I often look from a distance to MIT and its engagement with Cambridge and the Greater Boston Area, with regard to your questions. And there might be resources in MIT OCW in these regards as well. And I suspect Stanford already has a history with Palo Alto and SF in these regards, for example, too (e.g. legal clinics, etc - see recent Stanford President John Hennessy's new book "Leading Matters" for specific examples). 

Where I think WUaS could help here is with our A) MIT OCW-centricity, B) Google-centricity and particularly in C) coding our Wikidata / Wikibase "back end" structured knowledge base with our "front end" in WUaS MediaWiki, using this wiki subject as an example - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_City - for matriculating WUaS students. Check out the MIT OCW courses here, which students can't yet take for credit, and hypothetical Stanford Law students can't yet teach. If a Stanford Law student, for example, were to teach a MIT OCW-like Law OCW course to matriculated online WUaS undergraduate students (WUaS is seeking 100-500 matriculating undergrads in the autumn of 2019), both the OpenCourseWare, and the students, could be focused in the directions you outline. While WUaS students may well matriculate in some sort of Google Education environment, they may also instead register / matriculate in a WUaS MediaWiki "front end" Wikidata/Wikibase as "back end" environment in each of all ~200 countries' official language eventually. Wikidata / Wikibase coders are centered in Berlin, as a chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (with its SF Headquarters), and Roland, and another Stanford Law Prof. Barbara van Schewick may be able to facilitate focused (multi-language) communication with Wikimedia Deutschland re coding questions in the following ways. But this coding could emerge out of Stanford Computer Science as well, perchance. Re your following two questions, Jay: 

1) How might we streamline the matching and procurement of academic talent by cities?
If students matriculated at accrediting WUaS first in English in 2019 for free-to-students' Bachelor degrees from any of ~200 countries around the world, they might be able to take courses (similar to a MIT OCW Urban Studies' course) that would address the questions your raise.



2) How might we streamline the public-sector RFP and contracting process for startups? 
If a hypothetical Stanford Law student learning to become a law faculty teacher could hypothetically bring together a OCW Law course and at the same time network with cities re public-sector RfPs - Request For Proposals - (with you and Dee for example, Jay) to inform this OCW course, this would potentially stream this process. 

I think Stanford University as a learning culture could revisit and adapt CC-4 MIT OCW (CC-4 licensing: 1) share, 2) adapt but 3) non-commercially) in very new ways to address all your 'academic points.'

And re 'communities,' it's likely that matriculated students at WUaS, taking courses from HOME with Stanford Law student faculty, would already be living in their communities, which could be leveraged, as well. 

I think an entrepreneurial approach would re-shape such MIT OCW, and even an emergent Stanford Law OCW education. Whether WUaS would also offer single courses for credit - re your proposals, and entrepreneurially, in an interesting question too - since WUaS has been thinking only in terms of offering Bachelor, Ph.D, Law, M.D. as well as I.B. high school degrees in each of all ~200 countries' official languages (while seeking reimbursement from Ministries of Education for what tuition is at Stanford, for example, per year per student, - so would be free-to-students, a bit like public high schools in the US). And WUaS could explore further new directions here as well. (I'm including Larry Viehland in this email, who's chair of the Board at WUaS, and also Stanford's Angela whom I met at Stanford CodeX and who is working on human rights' machine learning legal tech in Colombia). WUaS is also seeking a class of 100-500 high achieving online students in 2019 (likely to complete 4 years or 40 courses for a free-to-students' Bachelor's degree), and I wonder if the cities of SF and others in the Bay Area might be able to generate such students in these regards as well (eg like Lowell High School, which is a public school and I.B. too, sending students to Stanford, for example).

And this whole process would scale to Computer Science courseware taught by Stanford CS graduate students, for example, and into all ~200 countries' official and main languages. And this process would also scale to all  ~32 MIT OCW departments / majors that WUaS seeks to build on as well, not just the Urban Studies and Planning courses in MIT OCW - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/ - as an example. But again MIT doesn't have a law school (or a medical school) ... and WUaS is seeking to offer online degrees in both (defining medicine anew online) and hopefully emerging out of Stanford Medicine for OpenCourseWare or similar in ~200 countries' official languages. 

The streamlining process re both of your questions seems best, from my perspective, to emerge from bringing together the WUaS's MediaWiki "front end" with Wikidata/Wikibase as "back end" in 300 languages - coding for such streamlining. And it's possible Stanford CS graduate students could help with this as well ... and even as an entrepreneurial opportunity. 

How might we best proceed re City Innovate // Stanford CodeX // World University and School?

Thank you!

Cheers, Scott

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As a followup:

To give you an idea of how the inter-lingual aspect of the WUaS Mediawiki "front end" will 'draw from' Wikidata/Wikibase as "back end" structured knowledge database in ~300 languages - as I understand this - is I think that Google Translate, as one example, will draw from parts and sounds of words in Wikidata's new Lexicographical project, and render translations. Re WUaS, this will either be built into Mediawiki or the Google Ecosystem, and possibly able to decipher proper names of matriculated students at WUaS, and inform translation of parts of MIT OCW courses which now number about 2,500 courses in English, making them available to matriculated students in ~200 countries' languages - and with many in cities. Such Google Translation - or Wikimedia's Content Translation - both drawing on Wikidata's Lexicographical project will also likely translate the subject headings in this main WUaS SUBJECT TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE?action=edit - as well as some of the content in these subjects - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects ... So the further development of Wikidata's new Lexicographical project may open a river of WUaS coding developments re your 'streamlining' questions, Jay.

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- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- 415 480 4577

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 



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.@FukuyamaFrancis: We need an integrated national identity based on liberal democratic values so Americans can believe in something in common #Stanfordbooklaunch #Thymos




https://twitter.com/StanfordCDDRL/status/1045462947504390144



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Great interview with @FukuyamaFrancis & @McFaul about “Identity,” the roots of #Thymos and the search for dignity in modern politics during his #Stanford book launch > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States … & at @WUaSPress -@WorldUnivAndSch can help with education, academic careers re economics



https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1045464787834949634


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Here’s the Stanford interview itself …

Fukuyama and McFaul:

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1ZkKzNekyVLKv



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