Data-driven-journalism round table, August 24th, 2010, Amsterdam - Creative Commons by:sah

1. WEATHERSTATIONS
Citizen-Apps and eParticipation
as sources for Datajournalism
Lorenz Matzat

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Lorenz Matzat
- freelance journalist
- media educator
- academic background: political scientist
- Open Data Network e.V.
- Blog: www.datenjournalist.de

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Datajournalism
- access to or production of structured data-sets
- using these data-sets for research of a story
- discuss data/ data source in published piece
- provide raw-data for the users along with the story
‣ as a spreadsheet
‣ and/or interactive research environment
(e.g. map-mashup with a timeslider and lters)

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State of Datajournalism in Germany
- right now no datadesk, datablog or alike
in any German media
- several projects at newspapers and other media
(in combination with investigative units)
- Wikileaks WarLogs as a waking call

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Open Government Data in Germany
- no OpenGov initiative or data.gov
- some government sources for statistical data;
often not very detailed an
in non-machinereadable formats
- weak „Freedom of Information Act“
- BUT: changing consciouness in bureaucracy;
some Gov 2.0 Application
(Gov 2.0 is not OpenGov)

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OpenData and Civil Society
Open Data and Civil Society
- OpenData in Germany is happening bottom-up
- Several groups and private persons are working on
gathering (scraping) data and developing
applications
‣ Open Data Network
‣ Open Knowledge Foundation
‣ Government 2.0 Netzwerk
‣ Netzdemokraten

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Evolving Ecosystem of Citizen Apps
- OpenBudget (offener-haushalt.de)
- OpenParliament (openbundestag.de)
- Lobbyregister (lobbypedia.de)
...several more
- Gov2.0/ eParticipation:
‣ eConsulation
‣ Citizen-Budgets (Bürgerhaushalte)

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Citizen Apps as Datajournalism sources
- this Ecosystem could be uses like a net of
weatherstations or seismographs:
‣ measuring political temperature, pressure etc.
‣ journalist could nd stories in the data and usage
of this applications
- newspapers/media should sponsor or develop
applications like this for reader/user envolvement
and strengthening of watchdog function

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Thank you for listening.
matzat@gmail.com