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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The newly digitized and openly accessible data allowed the well to do to take the information provided and use that as the basis for instructions to land surveyors and lawyers
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An “effective use” approach to open data would thus be one that ensured that opportunities and resources for translating this open data into useful outcomes would be available (and adapted) for the widest possible range of users.
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The key difference here was the attention that was paid by the provider of the information, the CHPR to ensuring that the data could be effectively used without the need for highly skilled (and expensive) professional intermediaries.