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- 1. SEE HOW DATA CAN CHANGE THE WORLD Juliana Robilard EDM14435144 BA Design Cultures Year 1 University of the Arts, London College of Communication Unit: Managing Design 1 Assignment Title: The Creative and Cultural industries Tutor: Maureen Salmon and Neil Leonard
- 3. Design Data Technology Activism Society What is Open Knowledge?
- 20. Conclusion
- 21. Annotated bibliography Bennett, T., Grossberg, L., Morris, M. (2014) New keyword: A revised vocabulary of culture and society. 2nd edition. Victoria, Australia: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. In this book by Blackwell Publishing in 2014 and edited by Tony Bennet, Lawrence Grossberg and Meaghan Morris it was possible to identify the beginning of my research to have a better understanding of some of the key words of this project. The purpose of this book is a general understanding of some specifics topics in relation to today’s culture and society. This book is inspired by the 1976’s Keywords: A vocabulary of culture and society, written by Raymond Williams a welsh philosopher graduated from University of Cambridge. Revising the keywords itself, editors found that “sense of the work as necessarily unfinished and incomplete”. The revised vocabulary includes some of Williams ideas and a range of sources by the end, which makes the research easy. In this book I checked the introductions to knowledge (p.195), management (p.201), society (p326) and technology (p.342), which helped me to have a better understand of the topic in the interview I had to conduct into this project.
- 22. Best, K. (2006) Design Management: Managing design strategy, process and implementation. China: Bloomsbury. In the “Design Management, managing design strategy, process and implementation” by Kathryn Best and published through Bloomsbury, it is possible to understand the different aspects of managing design and its importance. Best, analyses that management and design, as separate words, does not have a single definition such as the term business, which can be used in the context of every type of non-design activities. The author also explains the different phases of design management process in simple steps. In this way I was able to understand the structural process needed in the creative industries and its importance as a total. Davies, R. and Sigthorsson, G. (2013) Introducing the creative industries: From theory to practice. London, England: SAGE. Rosamund Davies and Gauti Sigthorsson wrote this book with the help of their colleagues and students in the Department of Communication and Creative Arts at the University of Greenwich. The book is an introduction to the creative industries, from the beginning to what it is now, introducing it as a metaphor of the industrialised production of creativity. They had interviewed different persons of the creative industries, from different aspects and positions and aimed to expand the readers horizons through the variety of the industry even when different sectors still have similarities since they all depend on ideas, skills and talent. With this book, I could understand how to define what is a creative industry and why is it necessary in the economy and society.
- 23. Howkins, J. (2013) The creative economy: How people make money from ideas. 3rd edition. London, England: Penguin books. This book written by John Howkins can be seen as a guide of how to turn the creative industries into money showing us what creativity really is and the difference it can make into business through some simple rules. Howkins ideas are very clear and goes over traditional economics ideals talking about what you need to be successful in today’s economy. . However, as he states in the book, you need to be able to break those rules occasionally. During my interview with Open Knowledge, I realised that regarding of being a non-profit organisation, which in fact, I fell, was the opposite idea that Howkins transmit about creative industries into his book, as a creative industry they still need to have access to those rules in order to keep doing their work even when their mean purpose is not about gaining profit. McCandless, D. (2012) Information is beautiful. 2nd edition. London, England: William Collins. The book written by David McCandless, a British data journalist, has a collection of his works for the weblog Information is Beautiful. The book was published by the William Collins in 2012 as a second edition of the first published in 2009. In general terms, having the capacity to analyse how data can be better seen when visualised in different ways was important to this project. In the introduction, McCandless supports the idea where the world is visual after internet and regarding of what people said about books having the need of text he proves the opposite, with graphics, colours and maps it is actually easier to understand a point and even jokes making it more readable. In a way, what McCandless did on this book was important to understand how transforming data into design is important not only inside the Open Knowledge foundation but also for others making it a source of information.
- 24. Miles, I. and Green, L. (2008) Hidden innovation in the creative industries. London, England: NESTA, Making innovation flourish. In this research realised by Ian Miles and Lawrence Green and published by Nesta in July 2008, it is possible to recognise four principal factors of the creative industries; video games, product design, advertising and broadcast production. The key findings of this research was to understand how technological innovations is hidden into the creative industries since they are not using traditional products as other parts of the industry. This research was useful to analyse the difficult in having a creative business into this type of industry, same as the one I choose for conducting this project, and the importance of it in different aspects. Open Knowledge. (2015) Open Knowledge Foundation: See how data can change the world. Available at: https://okfn.org (Accessed: November 2014) As the company I choose for conducting this project was not into the traditional creative industries, my most reliable source to conduct this presentation was actually their website itself. In their Internet page, I was able to not only obtain the figures used on this Pecha Kucha, as well as having a broader understanding of what they do and create. Many of the questions I used in the interview actually came naturally after analysing their official page and weblog which is frequently update with their projects and datas.
Editor's Notes
- Have you ever thought about using design and technology to improve society? Technology is one of the biggest areas, if not the biggest, into the creative industries and connecting society and government with the use of design is what make me want to know more about Open Knowledge.
- First, let me introduce you about the importance of public data control. Controlling data provides transparency and it can be use as a platform to improvement. However, the laws and use of it is different in each country and culture.
- But what is Open Knowledge? Open Knowledge is a non-profit organisation that transforms activism into design with the use of technology. In other their words, transforming data into visualise technological material, which is used to improve society.
- Their key message is very simple: Promote the culture of open data and knowledge in different sectors creating a platform of improvement making the world having more access of information though technology.
- Rufus Pollock, who I’m going to talk about in a couple of seconds, saw an opportunity for digital revolution, he noticed that technology could change the way society is organise, so he went to Richardson Foundation which is famous for help new companies based in technology and asked for their help.
- After that they were able to develop the technology use on data.gov.uk, which help them to grow and installed the same type of technology in 84 different countries. Another way that was useful to maintain the foundation is donations and the sale of this software and related services.
- Talking about structure, this is the team at Open Knowledge, which is divided in four sectors: Network to deal with communication strategies. Knowledge, which is the connection between data users like NGOs and journalist. Commercial, who is responsible for training and maintain data systems. And the creation of Apps and Info graphics are part of the Project sector.
- As I said before, this is Rufus Pollock, he is the founder and president at Open Knowledge. He graduated from Economics at University of Cambridge, and saw this opportunity while studying, however, he only officially began with Open Knowledge a couple of years later, in 2004.
- In any case, this is whom I interviewed. Her name is Daniela Mattern and is the Project Director at Open Knowledge. Daniela have a degree in International Business Administration from an University in Nuremberg, Germany, during her studies she went for and exchange in Brazil where she started for work to Open Knowledge.
- What I have to say that I found more interesting in the way Open Knowledge works is that the only thing they ask is that every team member has to be the maximum of 8 hours distance by plane from London, where the company is legally. The work is home based and they have this type of meeting to talk about future plans, for at least once a year.
- This are basically the skills they need to have to work at open Knowledge. Programming, Digital design, sales since they will have to sell their software to governments, Teaching because it is important to do workshops that helps people to collect the data. Online activism and Communication.
- What Daniela said about intercultural communication is that the biggest issue they have is that since they are a british organisation, datas are dominated by the English language. And the other thing is that there is different interest in each country so is important to understand cultural diversity, like in Europe they are more interest in how data can provide jobs while in south America is more about social problems like education and healthy.
- In green, the colour of Open Knowledge, you can see places where they have their biggest network. Each project they do requires a different partner. Other thing is that they give a support of 300 dollars for new groups that want to produce new ways of using data.
- The biggest project of Open Knowledge is called CKAN, which is the biggest world data catalogue and means Comprehensive knowledge archive network and workflow supports departments or groups to manage their own data. But as an example of what they do with Ckan…
- There is the Open GLAM, which stands for Galleries, libraries, art and museum and is the open data in the culture sector. What they want with this is make a digitalized cultural heritage available to the public. Like, why we should pay for books in libraries and universities while we already paid for it with our fees?
- What they do for creating new projects is looking for local needs, after that, “hackers” do what is called scrapping information. In this way, they can understand how to make it visible creating illustrations and making an online activism to pressure the government to open this information to the others. Since you don’t want to end up as Edward Snowden who is exiled from the USA for open important data.
- Anyway, here is some examples of what they do. In the big image is an info graphic that shows how to improve the transport in Helsinki. But my favourite one is this app over there, which is called Click 180 and it was created with the Brazilian govern to register violence against women, not only in the streets but also at home, everything that you post on this, what they called, “secret app” goes straight to the police, so women don’t have to go to see them which is sometimes the reason why they keep in that type of situation.
- Open Knowledge use of advocacy, technology and training to unlock information so everyone can benefit from open knowledge it self. And their values are simple: respect, tolerance, collaboration not control, making and talking.
- Their expectations is making activism stronger and grow communication with the govern making them start publishing everything done with public resources for us to have a more evaluate open data.
- Open Knowledge has no interest in profit but in their beliefs. However, they still need to gain something over their software to keep them doing their job. In conclusion, using a creative industry, like technology to improve society and the way of activism is definitely a great idea. Thanks.