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Johann Höchtl

Announcing Google Refine 2.0, a power tool for data wranglers - Google Open Source Blog - 0 views

  • Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data sets, including cleaning up inconsistencies, transforming them from one format into another, and extending them with new data from external web services or other databases.
  • you can read how the Chicago Tribune, ProPublica and data.gov.uk have used it
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    Refine 2.0, a tool for data wranglers
Johann Höchtl

OMG Standard - The Open Municipal Geodata Standard Organization Website - 0 views

  • Open Municipal Geodata
  • Goals
  • To develop an open technical standard for the structuring and sharing of public geodata
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  • library of case-studies
  • broad community of citizens and government officials working to foster adoption of the standard
Parycek

The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook - 0 views

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    Great Facebook visualization!
Johann Höchtl

Summary of Personal Democracy Forum 2010 Barcelona - 0 views

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    Summary of Personal Democracy Forum 2010 Barcelona with a focus on open data
Johann Höchtl

Avoiding the Pitfalls of eGovernment [PDF] - 0 views

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    Avoiding the Pitfalls of eGovernment
Johann Höchtl

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Rethinking Open Data: Lessons... - 0 views

  • You can build it but they won’t come. All successful open source projects build communities of supportive engaged developers who identify with the project and keep it productive and useful.
  • Ongoing maintenance and distribution of the data hasn’t been budgeted for almost all the data sets we have today. This attitude has to change, and new projects give us the chance to get it right, but most existing datasets are unfunded for maintenance and release.
  • there are at least five different types of Open Data groupie: low-polling governments who want to see a PR win from opening their data, transparency advocates who want a more efficient and honest government, citizen advocates who want services and information to make their lives better, open advocates who believe that governments act for the people therefore government data should be available for free to the people, and wonks who are hoping that releasing datasets of public toilets will deliver the same economic benefits to the country as did opening the TIGER geo/census dataset.
Johann Höchtl

Gov 2.0: The end of a GovFresh era - 0 views

  • this has been a civic adventure driven by pure patriotic adrenaline
  • passionate, patriotic group of people I’m proud to now call friends
  • Over the past few months, I’ve tried to work on establishing a sustainable business model, but the challenge around building an immediate solid foundation has turned into a case of ‘too little, too late.’
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    GovFresh went awry and failed to establish a business model. Interessante Aussagen: passionate, patriotic aber kein Business Modell. Wo ist der Unterschied zu eg. Open Source? * Open Source "erzeugt" ein Produkt, das in der digitalen Welt "gehandelt" werden kann, eine digitale Plattform ohne digitale Produkte mit EndanwenderInnennutzen hat diese Eigenschaft nicht * Open Source communities sind erfolgreich, wenn sie Probleme in sehr kleine Einheiten brechen können. Damit steht potentiell vielen peers "Mitmachen" offen. Open Data erfordert ein skill level, das von nicht-Technikern schwer aufzubringen sein wird, macht damit jene, die sich nicht beteiligen und "credit" geben, zu Trittbrettfahrern
Parycek

ScienceDirect - Collaborative Innovation Networks Conference - 0 views

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    The 1st Collaborative Innovation Networks Conference - COINs2009 Edited by Kenneth Riopelle, Peter Gloor, Christine Miller and Julia Gluesing
thinkahol *

Netflix Partner Says Comcast Fee 'Threatens' Open Internet - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Level 3 Communications, a central partner in the Netflix online movie service, accused Comcast on Monday of charging a new fee that puts Internet video companies at a competitive disadvantage.
thinkahol *

Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans - Andy Greenberg - The Firewal... - 0 views

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    Massachusetts company AS&E has sold more than 500 van-based scanners that can see through clothing and walls.
Johann Höchtl

Google labs - public data - 0 views

  • ​The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes
  • become easier to understand.
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    Data visualizations for a changing world - Google public data explorer
Johann Höchtl

Geo2Gov Mashup interview « Communica - 0 views

  • The simple summary is that geo2gov is a spatial search engine. The longer version is that geo2gov takes a location in a variety of different formats (address, postcode, suburb, place name, ip address, etc) and converts them to a GPS location, then drills that point through half a dozen spatial layers to identify federal, state, local and ward level locations, as well as your statistical location within the most recent census.
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    Winner of MashupAustralia Hackfest Geo2Gov
thinkahol *

No evidence that WikiLeaks releases have hurt anyone - 11/28/2010 | MiamiHerald.com - 0 views

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    American officials in recent days have warned repeatedly that the release of documents by WikiLeaks could put people's lives in danger. But despite similar warnings before the previous two releases of classified U.S. intelligence reports by the website, U.S. officials concede that they have no evidence to date that the documents led to anyone's death.
Parycek

Wikileaks und offene Daten - zwei Seiten einer Medaille? - 0 views

  • Der Ansatz dieses „Open Government“ überträgt die Ideen des auf Offenheit, Beteiligung und Rekombination ausgelegten Web 2.0 in die Umgebung regierungsgebundener Dienstleistungen. Und auch hier geht es um eine Verschiebung von Machtstrukturen,
  • „Aus einer Perspektive der Regierungsinstitutionen zielen Fragen zur gemeinsamen Entwicklung von Services und Regulierungsfragen auf (1) die Machtverschiebung in Richtung der Nutzer sowie (2) das Verhältnis zwischen Nutzern und externen Organisationen, die als Vermittler für andere auftreten.“
  • Triebfeder für Projekte mit offenen Daten ist die Idee der Co-Creation neuer Inhalte im Rahmen flexibler, datengestützter Kooperationen zwischen Bürgern und öffentlichen Akteuren
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  • Hoffnung auf individuelle Weiterentwicklungen und Re-Kombinationen der öffentlich verfügbaren Daten durch Dritte.
  • Enthüllungs-Website“ und „Verwaltungs-Plattform“ auf ganz ähnlichen Funktionsprinzipien
  • Somit entsteht in beiden Fällen die Grundkonstellation für eine innovative, online-basierte Politik- bzw. Gesellschaftsberatung.
  • Regierungsplattformen eher als ein (ergebnis-)offener Prozess der Gesellschaftsberatung zu charakterisieren sind
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    Vergleich Wikileaks & Open Data von Bieber 
Johann Höchtl

Julien Assange - A Myth? No, he startet out as a very respectable Hacker! - 0 views

Parycek

Why the EU need new personal data protection rules - 0 views

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    Speech from Viviane Reding Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Privacy matters. The European Data Protection and Privacy Conference Brussels, 30 November 2010
Judith Schossboeck

Neue Generation Internet - Grenzenlos frei? - 0 views

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    einige Leseproben und abstracts zum Thema
Judith Schossboeck

mediadem bericht - 0 views

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    auch zu demokratie und medien, regulation etc.
Parycek

Studie Open-Commons-Region Linz - 0 views

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    Fakten, Perspektiven, Maßnahmen Institut für Personal- und Organisationsentwicklung  in Wirtschaft und Verwaltung an der  Johannes Kepler Universität Linz vertreten durch Gustav Pomberger
Parycek

Inside Wikileaks - Daniel Domscheit-Berg - 0 views

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    netzpolitik.org
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