From Open Data to Data Engagement | Esri Insider

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-11-04

Summary:

"The principles of open government and transparency suggest public access to information and, subsequently, scrutiny. Public scrutiny ultimately leads to accountability. Transparency and accountability together empower a public audience to weigh in on issues that matter to them, and provide an opportunity to influence decisions and hold the people making those decisions accountable. When it comes to opening up GIS data, transparency is often cited as being a key driving factor in making that data available. But simply providing downloads for data is not enough, and in the grand scope of openness is somewhat meaningless. Opening up GIS data is not an end, but rather a means to enable appropriate decisions, scrutiny, input, and also innovation. This requires more than just a one-time cul-de-sac data download. It requires a connection to the source and context that make that data inherently more meaningful, and subsequently more powerful. Our challenge is to think beyond the data download, and expand our thinking about what open data means in the modern context of Web GIS ..."

Link:

http://blogs.esri.com/esri/esri-insider/2015/11/03/open-data-engagement/

From feeds:

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

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.data oa.geodata

Date tagged:

11/04/2015, 19:26

Date published:

11/04/2015, 14:25