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NICAR: Open government, Gov 2.0 and open data journalism
“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 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