Data activism

Topics

open knowledge, open data, digital divide, community informatics, knowledge commons, open access, open government, data journalism.

Pages

• ArtWiki
• Fair-Play Alliance
• Free Bitflows
• Free/Libre Culture Forum
• Lambert Heller
• Incommunicado
• Nicolas Malevé
• Open Cultures
• Open Government Data Camp
• Open Knowledge Foundation
• Open Legislative Data
• Oživení
• P2P Foundation
• Public Netbase/t0
• Public Software Group
• Jason Scott
• Transparency Works
• Niklas Treutner
• Ushahidi
• VX:mission
• Zuzana Wienk
• World-Information.Org
• WSFII

Conferences

• OKCon (*2007), Free/Libre Culture Forum (*2009), Open Government Data Camp 2011, Transparency Works (2012).

Projects

International

Projects

• OpenSpending is exploring, structuring and mapping out different kinds of public finance from all around the world. An opendata project of Open Knowledge Foundation.

Germany

Projects

• LiquidFeedback software is used for the decision-making within German Pirate Party.

Initiatives

• Public Software Group, Interaktive Demokratie

Slovakia

Initiatives

Fair-Play Alliance (*2002), OpenData.sk, Utopia.sk

Projects

Demagog.sk (*2010), OdkazPreStarostu.sk (*2009), TvojPoslanec.sk (*2009)

Events

• "Otvorené nápady pre Slovensko", 17-18 December 2011, Bratislava. [1]
• "Od Infozákona po WikiLeaks, hranice otvorenosti", organised by Open Society Foundation, 7-8 December 2011, Bratislava. [2]

Articles

• "Participatívny rozpočet - Otvorený list poslancom bratislavského mestského zastupiteľstva", December 2011. [3] [4]

Croatia

Marko Rakar

Tunisia

• HackerSpace, “During the code sprint we have decided to focus on two important projects: GovSearch, which consists of a search engine that will serve as a platform for any Tunisian user to access all publicly available information from Tunisian administrative bodies anytime and anywhere… We are planning to contact all the Tunisian administrations to ask them about the different ways to reach them, then we will upload the results into the database,” December 2011. [5]
• Telecomix Tunisia

United States

Projects

Give Me My Data, by Owen Mundy. See: Facebook App Brings Back Data May 1, 2010

Publications

• FCForum: Sustainable Models for Creativity in the Digital Age, 2010. [6]
• FCForum: Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge, 2010. [7]
• Michael Gurstein, "Are the Open Data Warriors Fighting for Robin Hood or the Sheriff?: Some Reflections on OKCon 2011 and the Emerging Data Divide", 2011, [8]. "“Open”–“Necessary” but not “Sufficient”", 2011, [9]. Criticism of Open Knowledge Foundation and open data activism.
• Tom Slee, "Seeing Like a Geek", 25 June 2012. [10]
• Berlin Declaration on Open Access (2003). Signed by 200 universities, research institutions, funding agencies, foundations, libraries, museums and archives from all over the world. The declaration states that "our mission of disseminating knowledge is only half complete if the information is not made widely and readily available to society".
• George Caffentzis (2008) - Autonomous Universities and the Making of the Knowledge Commons (essay). "In this lecture I address the role autonomous universities can play in the practical task of making the knowledge commons."
• Data Journalism Handbook (2012) [11] [12]
• Michael Gurstein, "Open data: Empowering the empowered or effective data use for everyone?", First Monday, Volume 16, Number 2 - 7 February 2011
• Publications about open data on Monoskop/log
• Publications about open government on Monoskop/log

See also

Copyright activism, Internet activism, FLOSS, Commons, Open design