Danah Boyd on Transparency, Government Data, and Online Communities

= Gov 2.0 Expo 2010: Danah Boyd, "Connecting with Communities"

Video via http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nNgXBIMass

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"At Gov2.0 this week, I gave a talk on the importance of information literacy when addressing transparency of government data:

“Transparency is Not Enough”

I address everything from registered sex offenders to what happens when politicians don’t like data to the complexities of interpretation. In doing so, I make three key points:

1. Information is power, but interpretation is more powerful
2. Data taken out of context can have unintended consequences
3. Transparency alone is not the great equalizer .

(http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/05/27/transparency-is-not-enough.html)

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1. Open Government Data