An Open World?

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What is the power of open?

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.

Image Credit: Real Time Rome from Senseable.MIT.edu

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

Open Data

Graphic Credit: Justin Grimes

Open government data platforms

Open data allows citizens to be generative in new ways

HHS Community Health Data

Traffic on the NYC Health Departments restaurant inspection site has gone from 10,000 hits per month to 124,000
- New York Times

Fauxpen Data
In 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

Chicago Shovels

Open Innovation

Top Coder

Solar Flares and Innocentive

Crowdsourcing?

Citizensourcing

A long(itude) history of contests and challenges

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Open Science
Pantone Principles By open data in science we mean that it is freely available on the public internet permitting any user to download, copy, analyse, re-process, pass them to software or use them for any other purpose without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.

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 sharealike. OpenDefinition.org Records shared with the public digitally, over the Internet, in a way that promotes analysis & reuse. -OpenGovData.org

Open Journalism

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 its Hacks and Hackers

Photo by Dennis Crowley, from Hack to Hacker: Rise of the Journalist-Programmer

Newspapers are either going to start doing what we do, or they're going to be bypassed and out of date.
-Elliot Jaspin That was 1986, in Time.

More than 166 U.S. newspapers have stopped putting out a print edition or closed down altogether since 2008. There have been more than 35,000 job losses or buyouts in the newspaper industry since 2007. Source: Paper Cuts

Data-driven journalism is the future

Source: Tim Berners-Lee in the Guardian

Gov 2.0, FOSS and agile development are all breathing new life into data and journalism -David Herzog, Open Missouri

Make small things faster, make big things possible.-Derek Willis, NYT

TimesMachine.nytimes.com cost a few hundred dollars. Hosted on Amazon EC2.

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

More than 36 interactive databases published Data sets account for 75% of overall traffic [Source: CJR]

Homicide Watch

Data journalists, meet civic hackers

Source: BuzzData

Whats next?

"The future is here.

It's just not evenly distributed yet."

The future is mobile.

In 2010, 82% of Americans have a cellphone. 60% of American adults go online wirelessly.

Source: Pew Internet

Smarter cities

Source: IBM

Latvias ManaBalss.lv

Citizens as Sensors: Andhra Pradesh

Augmented reality

Better apps to audit data

Augmented overload!

Image Credit: Daonk.org

Well need better filter/browsers

Image credit: PC World on Aurora

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

"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

Privacy challenges

China

Russia

Tensions: Open and Closed

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FOIA and national security

Big data, health data and privacy Open government and open data