Below are the slides, links and further reading for a lecture given 21st Feb as part of the Digital Media Futures course at LSE taking a critical look at the open government data landscape. I’ll add to these after the class if any other links or relevant papers come up.
Class participants: your (critical) feedback is very welcome by way of comments below. This overview of open data is an ongoing work in progress.
Slides
Links:
- Tim Berners-Lee Raw Data Now TED Talk
http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html
- Open Definition
http://opendefinition.org/
- Open Government Data Working Group of the Open Knowledge Foundation. Including video archive of speakers at past OGD Camp conferences.
http://opengovernmentdata.org/
- AidInfoLabs - documenting some of the different data uses with data from the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)
http://www.aidinfolabs.org/
In more depth/source material to explore:
Berners-Lee, T. (1999). Weaving the Web: The Past, Present and Future of the World Wide Web by its Inventor (p. 255).
Bowker, G. C. (2000). Biodiversity datadiversity. Social Studies of Science, 643–683. Retrieved from http://epl.scu.edu/~gbowker/biodivdatadiv.pdf
Davies, T. (2010). Open data, democracy and public sector reform: A look at open government data use from data. gov. uk. Practical Participation. Available at http://www.practicalparticipation.co.uk/odi/report/
Kundra, V. (2012). Digital Fuel of the 21st Century: Innovation through Open Data and the Network Effect. Public Policy. Cambridge, Mass.
Lathrop, D., & Ruma, L. (2010). Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice. O’Reilly Media.
Mcclean, T. (2011). Not with a Bang but a Whimper The Politics of Accountability and Open Data in the UK.
Scott, J. C. (1998). Seeing like a state. Yale University Press New Haven, CT.
Another reference and one step further in a more theoretical direction:
Yannick Rumpala, Knowledge and praxis of networks as a political project, 21st Century Society, Volume 4, Issue 3, November 2009, http://www.scribd.com/doc/85760369/Rumpala-Knowledge-and-Praxis-of-Networks-as-a-Political-Project-21st-Century-Society1