Open Data: Empowering the Empowered or Effective Data Use for Everyone? « Gur... - 2 views
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Efforts to extend access to “data” will perhaps inevitably create a “data divide” parallel to the oft-discussed “digital divide” between those who have access to data which could have significance in their daily lives and those who don’t.
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What is necessary as well, is that those for whom access is being provided are in a position to actually make use of the now available access
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open data” empowers those with access to the basic infrastructure and the background knowledge and skills to make use of the data for specific ends.
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