NICAR: Open government, Gov 2.0 and open data journalism

Open Data JournalismAlex@oreilly.com@digiphileradar.oreilly.com/alexh

We spread the knowledge ofinnovators around the world.

Technology publishing

Integrated media and conferences

Online publishing at Radar

Makers and open source hardware

In the 1990s, government and civilsociety spread the Internet globally

In the 2000s, mobile phones and social networking connected us ever more

Thestream

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’srestaurant inspection site has gone from10,000 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.” -JavaunMoradi, NPR

"The transparency genie is out of the bottle — world wide — and its 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 enoughData illiteracy is leading to a new data divide.Risk: open data empowers the empowered. Illustration: Brock Davis

Bridge thedata divide Digital signage on the cheap

“Data-driven journalism is the future” Source: Tim Berners-Lee in the Guardian

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