On People and Platforms for Platforms for Open Moldova Open Data Journalism Workshop

1. An Open World?
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2. We spread the knowledge of
innovators around the world.

4. "The future is
here.
It's just not
evenly
distributed yet."

5. What is the
power of
open?

6. In the 1990s, governments and civil
society spread the Internet globally

7. In the 2000s, mobile phones and social
networking connected us ever more

8. In the 2010s, big data will change
everything again.
Image Credit: Real Time Rome from Senseable.MIT.edu

9. Open source software

11. New York Senate
NY Senate on iTunes

12. Open Mapping

13. Platforms for citizens to self-organize
Image Credit: ITO World

15. An expanding number of data sources

16. Social data and crisis data

17. Open Data
Graphic Credit: Justin Grimes

18. First Principles
“A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free
to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at
most, to the requirement to attribute and share-
alike.” OpenDefinition.org
“Records shared with the public digitally, over the
Internet, in a way that promotes analysis & reuse.”
-OpenGovData.org

19. Open government data platforms

21. Open data allows citizens to be
generative in new ways

24. HHS Community Health Data

27. “Traffic on the NYC Health Department’s
restaurant inspection site has gone from
10,000 hits per month to 124,000”
- New York Times

29. Fauxpen Data
In an age of “openwashing”…
We need to:
Evaluate licenses.
Peruse the Terms of Service.
Review the governance.
Look at community.
Check the format.

31. “If Stage 1 of data journalism was “find and
scrape data,” then…
Stage 2 was “ask government agencies to
release data” in easy to use formats.
Stage 3 is going to be “make your own
data”, and those sources of data are going to
be automated and updated in real-time.”
-JavaunMoradi, NPR

33. #SnowPocalypse

34. Snowmageddon

35. Chicago Shovels

36. Open Innovation

37. Top Coder

38. Solar Flares and Innocentive

40. Crowdsourcing?

42. Citizensourcing

43. Open Journalism

44. What does Open Journalism look like?
“A man dies at the heart of a protest: a reporter
wants to discover the truth.
A journalist is seeking to contact anyone who can
explain how another victim died while being
restrained on a plane.
A newsroom has to digest 400,000 official
documents released simultaneously.”
-Alan Rusbridger

45. The
stream

46. “Data-driven journalism is the future”
Source: Tim Berners-Lee in the Guardian

47. “Trendy but not new”-Simon
Rogers, Guardian

48. “We used to call it CAR”-DeBarros
Bob Woodward, via Cliff1066

49. Now it’s “Hacks and Hackers”
Photo by Dennis Crowley, from “Hack to Hacker: Rise of the Journalist-Programmer”

51. “Newspapers are either going
to start doing what we do, or
they're going to be bypassed
and out of date.”
-Elliot Jaspin
That was 1986, in Time.

52. More than 166 U.S. newspapers have stopped
putting out a print edition or closed down
altogether since 2008.
There have been more than 35,000 job losses or
buyouts in the newspaper industry since 2007.
Source: Paper Cuts

54. “Make small things faster, make big things
possible.”-Derek Willis, NYT
TimesMachine.nytimes.com cost a few hundred dollars. Hosted on Amazon EC2.

55. Storytelling still matters.
“We use these tools to find and tell stories.
We use them like we use a telephone.
The story is still the thing.”
- Anthony DeBarros
USA Today
Source: Data Journalism and the Big Picture

56. Source: How Canada became an open data and data journalism powerhouse

59. More than 36 interactive databases published
Data sets account for 75% of overall traffic
[Source: CJR]

60. Data journalists, meet civic hackers
Source: BuzzData

61. Homicide Watch

62. What’s next?

63. The future is mobile.
In 2010, 82% of
Americans have a
cellphone.
60% of American
adults go online
wirelessly.
Source: Pew
Internet

64. Pervasive connectivity
Image Credit: PetitInvention

65. Makers and open source hardware

66. Citizens as Sensors: Andhra Pradesh

67. Safecast
open source
Geiger counter

69. "The transparency genie is out of the bottle —
world wide — and it's not going back into the
darkness of that lantern ever again.
Progress will be slow, but it will be progress.”
- Ellen Miller, Sunlight Foundation

73. Privacy
challenges

74. Transparency is not enough
Data illiteracy is leading to a
new data divide.
Risk: open data empowers
the empowered.
Illustration: Brock Davis

75. Bridge the
data divide
Digital signage on the cheap

76. Co-create a stronger union

77. Find me:
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