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An Open World?
We spread the knowledge of innovators around the world.
"The future is here.
It's just not evenly distributed yet."
In the 1990s, governments 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
Open source software
New York Senate
NY Senate on iTunes
Open Mapping
Platforms for citizens to self-organize
Image Credit: ITO World
An expanding number of data sources
Social data and crisis data
First Principles
“A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share-alike.” OpenDefinition.org
“Records shared with the public digitally, over the Internet, in a way that promotes analysis & reuse.” -OpenGovData.org
Open government data platforms
Open data allows citizens to be generative in new ways
HHS Community Health Data
“Traffic on the NYC Health Department’s restaurant inspection site has gone from 10,000 hits per month to 124,000”
- New York Times
Fauxpen DataIn an age of “openwashing”…
We need to:
Evaluate licenses.
Peruse the Terms of Service.
Review the governance.
Look at community.
Check the format.
“If Stage 1 of data journalism was “find and scrape data,” then…
Stage 2 was “ask government agencies to release data” in easy to use formats.
Stage 3 is going to be “make your own data”, and those sources of data are going to be automated and updated in real-time.”
-Javaun Moradi, NPR
#SnowPocalypse
Snowmageddon
Crowdsourcing?
Citizensourcing
What does Open Journalism look like?
“A man dies at the heart of a protest: a reporter wants to discover the truth.
A journalist is seeking to contact anyone who can explain how another victim died while being restrained on a plane.
A newsroom has to digest 400,000 official documents released simultaneously.”
-Alan Rusbridger
The stream
“Data-driven journalism is the future”
Source: Tim Berners-Lee in the Guardian
“Trendy but not new”-Simon Rogers, Guardian
“We used to call it CAR”-DeBarros
Bob Woodward, via Cliff1066
Now it’s “Hacks and Hackers”
Photo by Dennis Crowley, from “Hack to Hacker: Rise of the Journalist-Programmer”
“Newspapers are either going to start doing what we do, or they're going to be bypassed and out of date.”
-Elliot Jaspin
That was 1986, in Time.
More than 166 U.S. newspapers have stopped putting out a print edition or closed down altogether since 2008.
There have been more than 35,000 job losses or buyouts in the newspaper industry since 2007.
Source: Paper Cuts
“Make small things faster, make big things possible.”-Derek Willis, NYT
TimesMachine.nytimes.com cost a few hundred dollars. Hosted on Amazon EC2.
Storytelling still matters.
“We use these tools to find and tell stories. We use them like we use a telephone. The story is still the thing.”
- Anthony DeBarros USA Today
Source: Data Journalism and the Big Picture
Source: How Canada became an open data and data journalism powerhouse
More than 36 interactive databases published Data sets account for 75% of overall traffic
[Source: CJR]
What’s next?
The future is mobile.
In 2010, 82% of Americans have a cellphone.
60% of American adults go online wirelessly.
Source: Pew Internet
Pervasive connectivity
Image Credit: PetitInvention
Makers and open source hardware
Citizens as Sensors: Andhra Pradesh
Safecast
open sourceGeiger counter
"The transparency genie is out of the bottle —world wide — and it's not going back into the darkness of that lantern ever again.
Progress will be slow, but it will be progress.”
- Ellen Miller, Sunlight Foundation
Privacy challenges
Transparency is not enough
Data illiteracy is leading to a new data divide.
Risk: open data empowers the empowered.
Illustration: Brock Davis
Bridge the data divide
Digital signage on the cheap
Co-create a stronger union
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