From data to movement

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Talk given at the LBJ School of Public Affairs "Texas Financial Transparency: Open and Online" conference on April 23, 2010.

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transparency:from data to movement

ethan zuckerman10/22/2010

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does increased transparency lead inexorably to better government?

“Wikileaks has probably produced more scoops in its short life than The Washington Post has

in the past 30 years.”

- Rupert Wright in “The National”

theories of change

Do rigorous research

Get article in New York Times

Get senate hearings

State Department changes visa policy

WELL THAT MAKES ME ANGRY

SEEMS LIKE I SHOULD DO SOMETHING TO HELP

OOH, LOOK! PICTURES OF KITTIES!

images from Randall Munroe’s wonderful (and CC licensed) xkcd comic strip

Get article in New York Times

Do rigorous research

Get article in New York Times

Get senate hearings

State Department changes visa policy

activate readers

who organize to pressure State

Sometimes we need more data

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photo by Kevin H.

Sometimes we need filters

sometimes, visualization...

- Free the data we’ve got- Find the data we don’t have- Filter, visualize, contextualize- From data to movement

@ethanzethan@ethanzuckerman.com

thanks for listening.

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