nicar: open government, gov 2.0 and open data journalism
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Open Data Journalism
We spread the knowledge of innovators around the world.
Technology publishing
Integrated media and conferences
Online publishing at Radar
Makers and open source hardware
In the 1990s, government and civil society spread the Internet globally
In the 2000s, mobile phones and social networking connected us ever more
The stream
In the 2010s, big data will change everything again.
Image Credit: Real Time Rome from Senseable.MIT.edu
Open data allows citizens to be generative in new ways
Platforms for citizens to self-organize
Image Credit: ITO World
HHS Community Health Data
An expanding number of data sources
Open government data platforms
Commercial and industry data
Social data and crisis data
Civic startups & media-generated 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
Public-private data hybrids
“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
"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
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
“Data-driven journalism is the future”
Source: Tim Berners-Lee in the Guardian
Co-create a stronger union
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