News Challenge: Open Data - Useful for People/Communities, Address Inequities, Protect Liberties - Due Sept 30
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Steven Clift
Sep 9, 2015, 2:08:21 PM9/9/15
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That's my own spin on the subject line.
It is interesting how the different partners display their emphasis.
It will be intriguing to see the mix in the end. Addressing inequities
with open data/open gov/civic tech needs more than lip service and
rarely gets significant investment when it runs into the meritocracy.
Challenge: http://bit.ly/newschallengehome
Open Data Entries: http://bit.ly/newschallengeopendata
Brief: http://bit.ly/newschallengeopendatabrief
Blog/video: http://bit.ly/newschallengeopendatablog
Press Release: http://bit.ly/newschallegeopendataPR
From the release:
“We live in an age where everyone has the potential to access and
explore large amounts of data. We hope the challenge will uncover
ideas that can turn this data into useful information, so people can
use it to make decisions about their lives and their communities,”
said John Bracken, Knight Foundation vice president for media
innovation.
“Data can be used for countless productive and disruptive purposes.
How can data be used to combat discrimination and injustice? How can
marginalized communities gain control of data-related interventions
that affect them? We hope this challenge produces sharp ideas for
addressing inequities in society,” said danah boyd, founder of Data &
Society.
“This challenge offers an opportunity to dive into the difficult
questions inherent in our increasingly ‘quantified society’ – how to
build systems that allow us to benefit from an increasing amount of
information, while ensuring that we protect our civil liberties and do
not create new forms of discrimination. We look forward to seeing the
results,” said Janet Haven, associate director of the Open Society
Foundations’ Information Program.
...
I have two initial ideas:
1. Democratic Data Deficit - If we really care about empowering people
to make decisions in their community and democracy, we need to
fundamentally address the complete lack of structured data about local
representatives and representative processes. From who represents me
_at the very local level_ to when is the next public meeting to
options to receive pro-active notification about an agenda item I care
about - you can't open data that doesn't exist in a structured form.
And you can't expect volunteers to crowd source or scrape and bake
this data on a sustained basis beyond the mega cities if that. So the
best way to collect and share open data on local democracy is to
_mandate_ its creation and share via the rule of law at the state
level. Then this data can be generated and shared (and involve the
Secretary of State's in most states to coordinate and make it happen).
If you want to help me explore this join our E-Democracy Projects list
- http://bit.ly/edemprojects and/or drop me - cl...@e-democracy.org -
a note. My proposal will build from http://e-democracy.org/sunshine if
you want to read more (sample legislative proposals to turn some of
the 10 indicators into legal requirements combined with tech efforts
to show what you can do with what exists "democratic" data wise in
sadly the rare places where the such public meeting, etc. data is
accessible )
2. Your Next Representative - Let's give the News Challenge another
chance to see the fundamental importance and huuuuge opportunity to
create a global engine for helping voters find their candidates and
mix it up with them on social media. This has awesome transformative
potential: http://bit.ly/6countriesnewschallenge - Join the Poplus
group: http://bit.ly/poplusgroup
Full disclosure: Knight funded a small prototype grant -
http://knightfoundation.org/grants/201551234/ - for Argentina and the
U.S.. In the U.S., DataMade in Chicago recently connected with
E-Democracy.org to demonstrate the tool in a U.S. local election using
candidate social media data we've been crowd-sourcing on a volunteer
basis over the summer (in collaboration with Open Twin Cities a CfA
Brigade). One interesting use of social media data is the creation of
yet to be promoted Facebook Interest List on all the St. Paul
candidates Facebook Pages and crucially _public posts to their
Profiles_. Check it out: http://bit.ly/saintpaulelectionsfacebook
(Imagine if every city had a place where you could watch the campaign
like this or post-election connect with your representatives like this
also not yet promoted Interest list for Minneapolis:
http://bit.ly/minneapoliscivicfacebooklist ) More (work in progress,
*pre* using Your Next Rep http://e-democracy.org/stpaul15 BTW, for
the developers out there:
https://github.com/mysociety/yournextrepresentative
Cheers,
Steven Clift
E-Democracy.org
It is interesting how the different partners display their emphasis.
It will be intriguing to see the mix in the end. Addressing inequities
with open data/open gov/civic tech needs more than lip service and
rarely gets significant investment when it runs into the meritocracy.
Challenge: http://bit.ly/newschallengehome
Open Data Entries: http://bit.ly/newschallengeopendata
Brief: http://bit.ly/newschallengeopendatabrief
Blog/video: http://bit.ly/newschallengeopendatablog
Press Release: http://bit.ly/newschallegeopendataPR
From the release:
“We live in an age where everyone has the potential to access and
explore large amounts of data. We hope the challenge will uncover
ideas that can turn this data into useful information, so people can
use it to make decisions about their lives and their communities,”
said John Bracken, Knight Foundation vice president for media
innovation.
“Data can be used for countless productive and disruptive purposes.
How can data be used to combat discrimination and injustice? How can
marginalized communities gain control of data-related interventions
that affect them? We hope this challenge produces sharp ideas for
addressing inequities in society,” said danah boyd, founder of Data &
Society.
“This challenge offers an opportunity to dive into the difficult
questions inherent in our increasingly ‘quantified society’ – how to
build systems that allow us to benefit from an increasing amount of
information, while ensuring that we protect our civil liberties and do
not create new forms of discrimination. We look forward to seeing the
results,” said Janet Haven, associate director of the Open Society
Foundations’ Information Program.
...
I have two initial ideas:
1. Democratic Data Deficit - If we really care about empowering people
to make decisions in their community and democracy, we need to
fundamentally address the complete lack of structured data about local
representatives and representative processes. From who represents me
_at the very local level_ to when is the next public meeting to
options to receive pro-active notification about an agenda item I care
about - you can't open data that doesn't exist in a structured form.
And you can't expect volunteers to crowd source or scrape and bake
this data on a sustained basis beyond the mega cities if that. So the
best way to collect and share open data on local democracy is to
_mandate_ its creation and share via the rule of law at the state
level. Then this data can be generated and shared (and involve the
Secretary of State's in most states to coordinate and make it happen).
If you want to help me explore this join our E-Democracy Projects list
- http://bit.ly/edemprojects and/or drop me - cl...@e-democracy.org -
a note. My proposal will build from http://e-democracy.org/sunshine if
you want to read more (sample legislative proposals to turn some of
the 10 indicators into legal requirements combined with tech efforts
to show what you can do with what exists "democratic" data wise in
sadly the rare places where the such public meeting, etc. data is
accessible )
2. Your Next Representative - Let's give the News Challenge another
chance to see the fundamental importance and huuuuge opportunity to
create a global engine for helping voters find their candidates and
mix it up with them on social media. This has awesome transformative
potential: http://bit.ly/6countriesnewschallenge - Join the Poplus
group: http://bit.ly/poplusgroup
Full disclosure: Knight funded a small prototype grant -
http://knightfoundation.org/grants/201551234/ - for Argentina and the
U.S.. In the U.S., DataMade in Chicago recently connected with
E-Democracy.org to demonstrate the tool in a U.S. local election using
candidate social media data we've been crowd-sourcing on a volunteer
basis over the summer (in collaboration with Open Twin Cities a CfA
Brigade). One interesting use of social media data is the creation of
yet to be promoted Facebook Interest List on all the St. Paul
candidates Facebook Pages and crucially _public posts to their
Profiles_. Check it out: http://bit.ly/saintpaulelectionsfacebook
(Imagine if every city had a place where you could watch the campaign
like this or post-election connect with your representatives like this
also not yet promoted Interest list for Minneapolis:
http://bit.ly/minneapoliscivicfacebooklist ) More (work in progress,
*pre* using Your Next Rep http://e-democracy.org/stpaul15 BTW, for
the developers out there:
https://github.com/mysociety/yournextrepresentative
Cheers,
Steven Clift
E-Democracy.org
Steven Clift
Sep 30, 2015, 4:49:12 PM9/30/15
to brigade, liberationtech, poplus
I'd love to hear what folks submitted. Please share back. - Steve
Here is my submission:
http://po.st/communitydatasurgeLists
Community Data Surge - Defeating the Democratic Data Deficit
A strategy for universal local open data sharing based on emerging
"local everywhere" standards to generate inclusive civic engagement.
Written by Steven Clift
Updated 14 minutes ago
In one sentence, describe your idea as simply as possible.
Generate and share essential open data on local democracy everywhere
through open standards, distributed tools and features integrated by
often competing software providers, and crucially foster next
generation laws that make exceptional digital innovations inclusively
available for ALL.
...
Briefly describe the need that you're trying to address.
Timely access to information - particularly personalized notifications
sharing who, what, when, where data SO people can act it when it still
matters - is fundamentally empowering for people in their local
community and democracy. Our 2 decades of experience with civic tech
is that without aggressive inclusion efforts with open government,
only the most political in wired larger cities will benefit. Most
people will be left with an unreliable patchwork of data and services
for local democracy.
...
Lots more:
http://po.st/communitydatasurgeLists
Steven Clift - Executive Director, E-Democracy.org
cl...@e-democracy.org - +1 612 234 7072
@democracy - http://linkedin.com/in/netclift
Also with Knowledge Hub - steven...@khub.net
World leading online public services exchange: http://khub.net
Call # above or +44 203 808 1118 (After 13:00 UK time)
Here is my submission:
http://po.st/communitydatasurgeLists
Community Data Surge - Defeating the Democratic Data Deficit
A strategy for universal local open data sharing based on emerging
"local everywhere" standards to generate inclusive civic engagement.
Written by Steven Clift
Updated 14 minutes ago
In one sentence, describe your idea as simply as possible.
Generate and share essential open data on local democracy everywhere
through open standards, distributed tools and features integrated by
often competing software providers, and crucially foster next
generation laws that make exceptional digital innovations inclusively
available for ALL.
...
Briefly describe the need that you're trying to address.
Timely access to information - particularly personalized notifications
sharing who, what, when, where data SO people can act it when it still
matters - is fundamentally empowering for people in their local
community and democracy. Our 2 decades of experience with civic tech
is that without aggressive inclusion efforts with open government,
only the most political in wired larger cities will benefit. Most
people will be left with an unreliable patchwork of data and services
for local democracy.
...
Lots more:
http://po.st/communitydatasurgeLists
Steven Clift - Executive Director, E-Democracy.org
cl...@e-democracy.org - +1 612 234 7072
@democracy - http://linkedin.com/in/netclift
Also with Knowledge Hub - steven...@khub.net
World leading online public services exchange: http://khub.net
Call # above or +44 203 808 1118 (After 13:00 UK time)
Khairil Yusof
Oct 1, 2015, 1:43:03 AM10/1/15
to Steven Clift, brigade, liberationtech, poplus
This was Sinar Project's: Open Data in Constrained Environments
Working on approach of Popit/Popolo but extending approach to OCDS and IATI standards too.
To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/poplus/CAO9TZ0UQgRpb%2B8o4nD0z%2BTe1g_UEK3-OC1TRwAqerUrG%2B0rHwg%40mail.gmail.com.--
Poplus.org - Get involved: http://poplus.org/get-involved
IRC: #poplus https://webchat.freenode.net
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