Jill Magid: Failed States (2012)
Filed under book, fiction | Tags: · military, secrecy, transparency
Failed States is an exploration of coincidence and poetics amid the barriers and bureaucracy of governmental power. While on a trip to research the history of snipers in Austin, Texas, artist Jill Magid witnesses a mysterious shooting on the steps of the State Capitol. Twenty-four year old Fausto Cardenas fires several rounds in the air before being arrested. The event becomes the background against which Magid, under the guidance of CT — editor at the Texas Observer and former embedded war correspondent for AP — starts her training to become an embedded journalist with the U.S. military in Afghanistan.
Magid’s non-fiction novel Failed States approaches the themes of transparency, secrecy and publicity through her personal desire to engage the war on terror and its media representation through becoming an eyewitness.
Publisher Publication Studio, Portland, OR
Coproduced by Z33 – House for Contemporary Art, Belgium; Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles; Bucharest Biennial 5; and The Romanian Cultural Institute of Stockholm
ISBN 9781935662044
140 pages
Failed States installation by the artist
Comment (0)UNDP: Social Media, Accountability, and Public Transparency in Eastern Europe and CIS (2011)
Filed under report | Tags: · activism, corruption, eastern europe, internet activism, open data, open government, politics, social media, transparency, web 2.0
The domination of the executive over other branches of the government and the media is frequent in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), but the rapid development of social media is changing this pattern by transforming personal conversations and individual opinions into a subject of public debate.
Publisher UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre, October 2011
review (Eva Vozárová, Fair-play Alliance)
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Open Data Handbook (2012)
Filed under handbook | Tags: · copyright, data, open data, transparency
This handbook discusses the legal, social and technical aspects of open data. It can be used by anyone but is especially designed for those seeking to open up data. It discusses the why, what and how of open data – why to go open, what open is, and the how to ‘open’ data.
Contributing authors: Daniel Dietrich, Jonathan Gray, Tim McNamara, Antti Poikola, Rufus Pollock, Julian Tait, Ton Zijlstra
An Open Knowledge Foundation project
Creative Commons Attribution (Unported) v3.0 License
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