By Tim Davies on November 14, 2013
I was speaking at the Institute for International Economic Policy this afternoon at George Washington University at a conference on “Known-Knowns and Unknowns about the Internet: Measuring the Economic, Social, and Governance Impact of the Web“. The input I offered, for a session under the title ‘Has the Internet Helped Citizens and Policymakers Improve Governance? […]
Posted in Impacts, Open Data, Web Foundation
By Tim Davies on September 20, 2012
Just in time for the Open Knowledge Festival in Helsinki we’ve added one new paper, and two new field notes to the Open Data Special Issue of the Journal of Community Informatics. Simon McGinnes and Kasturi Muthu Elandy in their article Unintended Behavioural Consequences of Publishing Performance Data: Is More Always Better? question the mechanisms by […]
Posted in Impacts, Open Data, PHD
By Tim Davies on May 22, 2012
Around a month back I took part in a workshop in Brasilia organised by IDRC, the Web Foundation and the Berkman Centre ahead of the Open Government Partnership meeting titled ‘Fostering a Critical Development Perspective on Open Government Data’. It was a really productive day of discussions, exploring potential research issues, and research strategies to look […]
Posted in Impacts, International Development
By Tim Davies on April 12, 2012
Two open data related publications I’ve been working on have made it to the web in the last few days. Having spent a lot of the last few years working to support organisations to explore the possibilities of open data, these feel like they represent a more critical strand of exploring OGD, trying to embrace […]
Posted in IKM Emergent, Impacts, Open Data, PHD
By Tim Davies on March 29, 2011
Open Data Campaigning Camp last week brought together around 30 campaigners, developers and open data experts interesting in exploring the intersection of open data and campaigning. The ingredients: Campaigners work to influence change, often by building up and demonstrating popular support for an issue: working to attract attention to issues through mainstream media, online media, […]
Posted in Impacts, NGO, Open Data
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