Turning Data into Action
How can data be used to fuel positive social change? How do we design data to help communities pursue their interests? The Knight Foundation recently brought together a panel of three open data advocates at the 2010 Future of News and Civic Media Conference at MIT to discuss the answers.
The panel discussed ideas about how to foster civic engagement and social change. These strategies primarily focused around the areas of opendata and transparency. The speakers agreed that social change can be fostered by increasing the amount of quality data available and correspondence between residents and their governments. MIT Tech TV
Speakers included:
- Nick Grossman - Director of Civic Works at OpenPlans.
- Ellen Miller - Co-founder and executive director of the Sunlight Foundation.
- Laurel Ruma - Gov2.0 evangelist at O'Reilly Media.
(Via KnightBlog)
Posted on Tuesday, Aug 31, 2010
