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Data for Good
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- Description:
- What are the values, implications and potential societal impacts of the open and free use of data. What does freedom and movement of data mean for government, companies, for the media and for individuals?
- Questions
Answered: -
- Why is data so often not made accessible? Should it always be accessible & free?
- Should data also be made usable, for others to mash-up?
- If we did have access to all the data we wanted: how would it look? What it could it tell us? How do we make sense of it?
- What is the impact and implications of open and accessible data on our peception of the world, on how the world is, and on how it ought to be?
- How can technology help to share data that is dispersed between multiple platforms in efficient, effective and secure ways?
- What are the privacy implications? How can we deal with privacy, directly and at a level of understanding?
- What are the moral issues? Do we need to draw a line?
- Level:
- Intermediate
- Category:
- Human / Social Issues
- Type:
- Solo
- Event:
- SXSW Interactive 2009
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