A Genealogy of an Open Data Assemblage

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-05-19

Summary:

"Evidence informed decision making, participatory public policy, government transparency and accountability, sustainable development, and data driven journalism were the initial drivers of making public data accessible. The access work of geomaticians, researchers, librarians, community developers and journalists has recently been recast as open data that includes a different set of actors. As open data matures as a practice, its principles, definitions and guidelines have been transformed into national performance indicators such as indexes, barometers, ratings and score cards; the private sector such as Gartner, McKinsey, and Deloitte are touting open data's innovation and business opportunities; while smart city initiatives offer tools and expertise to help government sense, monitor, measure and evaluate their cities. Open data today seems to have evolved far from its original ideals, even with civil society players such as Markets for Good, Sunlight Foundation, Open Knowledge Foundation, Code for America, and many others advocating for more social approaches. This talk proposes an assemblage approach to understanding open data and provides a genealogy of its development in different contexts and places."

Link:

http://www.slideshare.net/ProgCity/a-genealogy-of-open-data-34827015

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.slideshare oa.psi oa.advocacy oa.policies oa.best_practices oa.librarians oa.publishers oa.economics_of oa.journalism oa.government oa.funders oa.presentations oa.data

Date tagged:

05/19/2014, 08:37

Date published:

05/19/2014, 04:37