Jan 26, 2015
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Innovation in Governance
In the 1990s, government and civil society spread the Internet globally
In the 2000s, mobile phones and social networking connected us ever more
In the 2010s, big data will change everything again.
Image Credit: Real Time Rome from Senseable.MIT.edu
The stream
Data powers Web 2.0
Open data allows citizens to be generative in new ways
HHS Community Health Data
Making Open Data Sing
Snowmageddon
Open Science
Pantone Principles “By open data in science we mean that it is freely
available on the public internet permitting any user to download, copy, analyse, re-process, pass them to software or use them for any other purpose without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.”
Transparency is not enough
Data illiteracy is leading to a new data divide.
Risk: open data empowers the empowered.
Illustration: Brock Davis
Privacy challenges
Bridge the data divide
Digital signage on the cheap
What’s next?
Makers and open source hardware
Digital tools for open government
NY Senate on iTunes
Better apps to audit data
Algorithmic regulation
Platforms for citizens to self-organize
Image Credit: ITO World