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An Open World?
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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.
“Ambient findability” - Peter MorehouseImage Credit: Scott McLeod
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
Snowmageddon
Crowdsourcing?
Citizensourcing
A long(itude) history of contests and challenges
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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
“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”
“Data-driven journalism is the future”
Source: Tim Berners-Lee in the Guardian
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
What’s next?
"The future is here.
It's just not evenly distributed yet."
The future is mobile.In 2012, 88% of Americans have a cellphone. 46% have smartphone
60%+ of American adults go online wirelessly.
Source: Pew Internet
Pervasive connectivity
Image Credit: PetitInvention
Better apps to audit data
Smarter cities
Source: IBM
Augmented streets
Augmented overload!
Image Credit: Daonk.org
spime
“A theoretical object that can be tracked precisely in space and time over the lifetime of the object”
-Wordspy Image Credit: @knolleary
Cities of spime
Image Credit: City Of Sound
Makers and open source hardware
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
Crimespotting
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
Privacy challenges
Cities + Internet of Things: H20
Smarter commuting through data
Image Credit: Real Time Rome from Senseable.MIT.edu
Smarter cycling
Source
Source: Greater Greater Washington
Smart infrastucture: Stockholm
• A measurable decrease in air pollution through changing traffic patterns.
Image source: New York Times
Citizens as Sensors: Andhra Pradesh
