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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
photo by Esthr
photo by Hradcanska
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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
photo by Subcomandanta
photo by Kevin H.
Sometimes we need filters
sometimes, visualization...
We always need context
And we benefit from involvement
- Free the data we’ve got- Find the data we don’t have- Filter, visualize, contextualize- From data to movement
