Open Data in Developing Countries
The focus of my work is currently on the Exploring the Emerging Impacts of Open Data in Developing Countries (ODDC) project with the Web Foundation.
March 2010
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Methodological musings after Rewired State
I went along to Rewired State DotGovLabs this weekend with the intention of being a participant-observer to help with the exploratory phase of my MSc dissertation research. It’s the first full-blown hack-day event I’ve been too, so I’d given a lot of thought in advance to how to be a participant-observer in a way that fits […]
What I’m doing at Rewired State: DotGovLabs and Hack the Government Day 2010
[Summary: Today and tomorrow I’m getting the Open Data Impacts project ‘field work’ started with exploratory participant observation at Rewired State’s DotGovLabs and Hack the Government Day 2010. If you’re here/there then this post gives a quick bit of background on that and answers questions that participants in the event might have…] Who are you? […]
RDF Lessons – Questions from UK and US comparisons
One of the great things about the OII Library is you never know who you will bump into. This afternoon, Professor James Hendler from the curiously-hard-name-to-parse-for-a-place-focussed-on-semantic-web Tetherless World Constellation (it’s a constellation of researchers studying the ‘Tetherless World’) was there – and we got talking about the differences between US and UK open data initiatives. Whereas […]
Project information sheet
I’ve just had confirmation back from the Central University Research Ethics Committee (CUREC) that the Open Data Impacts project has been approved, so – uploaded here is a copy of the approved Project Information Sheet & Informed Consent Statement (PDF) for reference (and so I’ve got an easy URL to link people to for it in […]
Raw data now…
Around a year ago, Tim Berners-Lee stood in front of the TED Conference and had the delegates chanting ‘Raw Data Now’. In the six-minute talk below, Berners-Lee is back in front of TED reporting on developments of the last 12-months that mean much of the raw data is flowing. The video includes some great hat-tips […]
Finding the questions…
I’m still developing the exact focus of this study – and I anticipate that the particular questions that will get the most focus in analysis won’t fully be settled until I’ve at least been able to run the pilot survey. However, I was reminded today that I was supposed to submit an project title and […]
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