Re:publica 2011
Eine vorläufige Version des Programms der re:publica 2011 (13. bis 15. April) ist online; http://eicker.at/republica2011 #rp11
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Gerrit Eicker
Data and Predictive Analytics
O’Reilly: Calculus of data, predictive analytics, and why mobile sensors are central to the future and 2011; http://eicker.at/1x
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Open Data Study
Socrata [PDF]: The state of open data from 3 perspectives, the public, government and developers; http://eicker.at/OpenDataStudy
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WikiLeaks Paranoia
First positive effect for privacy. NYT: The Defense Department is scaling back information sharing; http://eicker.at/Paranoia
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WikiLeaks: Pros and Cons II.
Shirky: Wikileaks should not be able to operate as a law unto itself [but] we need to keep [it] alive today; http://eicker.at/WL
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Shirky: “Like a lot of people, I am conflicted about Wikileaks. – Citizens of a functioning democracy must be able to know what the state is saying and doing in our name, to engage in what Pierre Rosanvallon calls ‘counter-democracy’, the democracy of citizens distrusting rather than legitimizing the actions of the state. Wikileaks plainly improves those abilities. – On the other hand, human systems can’t stand pure transparency. For negotiation to work, people’s stated positions have to change, but change is seen, almost universally, as weakness. People trying to come to consensus must be able to privately voice opinions they would publicly abjure, and may later abandon. … In the US, however, the government has a ‘heavy burden’, in the words of the Supreme Court, for engaging in prior restraint of even secret documents, an established principle since New York Times Co. vs. The United States, when the Times published the Pentagon Papers. If we want a different answer for Wikileaks, we need a different legal framework first. … Over the long haul, we will need new checks and balances for newly increased transparency – Wikileaks shouldn’t be able to operate as a law unto itself anymore than the US should be able to. In the short haul, though, Wikileaks is our Amsterdam. Whatever restrictions we eventually end up enacting, we need to keep Wikileaks alive today, while we work through the process democracies always go through to react to change. If it’s OK for a democracy to just decide to run someone off the internet for doing something they wouldn’t prosecute a newspaper for doing, the idea of an internet that further democratizes the public sphere will have taken a mortal blow.”
Gillmor: “Of course, the New York Times, Washington Post and many other news organizations in the U.S. and other nations have published classified information themselves in the past – many, many times – without any help from WikiLeaks. Bob Woodward has practically made a career of publishing leaked information. By the same logic that the censors and their media acolytes are using against WikiLeaks, those organizations and lots of others could and should be subject to censorship as well. … Media organizations with even half a clue need to recognize what is at stake at this point. It’s more than immediate self-interest, namely their own ability to do their jobs. … Like Clay Shirky, I’m deeply ambivalent about some of what WikiLeaks does, and what this affair portends. Governments need to keep some secrets, and laws matter. So does the First Amendment, and right now it’s under an attack that could shred it.”
Sauter/Zittrain: “Everything You Need to Know About Wikileaks – Who is responsible for redacting the documents? What actions did Wikileaks take to ensure that individuals were not put in danger by publication of the documents? – According to the Associated Press and statements released by Wikileaks and Julian Assange, Wikileaks is currently relying on the expertise of the five news organizations to redact the cables as they are released, and it is following their redactions as it releases the documents on its website. (This cannot be verified without examining the original documents, which we have not done – nor are we linking to them here.) According to the BBC, Julian Assange approached the U.S. State Department for guidance on redacting the documents prior to their release. One can imagine the State Department’s dilemma there: assist and risk legitimating the enterprise; don’t assist and risk poor redaction. In a public letter, Harold Koh, legal adviser to the Department of State, declined to assist the organization and demanded the return of the documents.”
Madrigal: “How to Think About WikiLeaks – In the days since WikiLeaks began releasing a small percentage of its cache of 250,000 cables sent by State Department officials, many people have tried to think through the event’s implications for politics, media, and national security. – Writers pulling at the knot of press freedom, liberty, nationalism, secrecy and security that sits at the center of the debate have produced dozens of fantastic pieces. We’re collecting the very best here. This page will be updated often. New links will be floated near the top of this list.“
Gerrit Eicker
Trends of 2010
RWW: Top 5 trends of 2010, mobile, internet of things, LBS–networks, real-time, structured data; http://eicker.at/rww2010
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World Government Data
Governments around the world are opening up their data vaults. The Guardian starts a single gateway; http://j.mp/5P6Mij
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(It’s) Our Data
Our Data will build an overview of European initiatives and activities around Open Government Data; http://tr.im/t9Lw
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Google: Find and Compare Public Data
Google adds search power to public data, making find and compare more easy; http://tr.im/jZBJ
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Google: “The data we’re including in this first launch represents just a small fraction of all the interesting public data available on the web. There are statistics for prices of cookies, CO2 emissions, asthma frequency, high school graduation rates, bakers’ salaries, number of wildfires, and the list goes on. Reliable information about these kinds of things exists thanks to the hard work of data collectors gathering countless survey forms, and of careful statisticians estimating meaningful indicators that make hidden patterns of the world visible to the eye. All the data we’ve used in this first launch are produced and published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau’s Population Division. They did the hard work! We just made the data a bit easier to find and use.”
RWW: “The company is starting with population and unemployment data from around the US but promises to make far more data sets searchable in the future. The potential significance of making aggregate data about our world easy to visualize, cross reference and compare can’t be overstated.”
VB: “I’m hoping Google improves the user interface, too. Right now, you have to be careful in your searches. My query about ‘unemployment San Francisco’ left me baffled and frustrated, until I remembered to add the word ‘rate.’ There’s also no good way to jump between different categories once you’re looking at the data, for example no button that lets you move directly from the unemployment data to the population numbers. Lastly, I’m frustrated that there’s no obvious way to adjust the scale of the timeline. What if I’m more interested in unemployment trends in the past few years, rather than the last decade and a half?”
SEL: “Why did Google announce this during the Wolfram Alpha Demo? Wolfram Alpha seems to be all about collecting these data sources and making it easy for people to search information on these types of data sources, complete with charts. The timing suggest Google was hoping to spoil what some see as a weakness it might have compared to Wolfram Alpha.”
Gerrit Eicker 15:08 on 21. March 2011 Permalink |
Eine vorläufige Version meiner Programmplanung für die re:publica 2011:
13.04.2011
10:00 Willkommen zur re:publica 2011
11:00 Open (Government) Data: What, Why, How?
11:30 Open Statecraft
12:00 Open Government, Transparenz und Beteiligung in Deutschland
14:00 Open Government made in Germany
15:00 Die Geburt des Wikis aus der Wade der Wunderkammer
16:00 Contentindustrie, Internet-Rechtsprechung, Gesetzgebung
17:00 We transform them before they transform us
19:00 JMSTV: Wie weiter mit dem Jugendmedienschutz?
14.04.2011
10:00 Social Media Measurement
11:00 Google Books
12:00 Spiel das Leben
14:00 Leaking Transparency
15:00 Diaspora
16:00 Was macht eigentlich der digitale Mensch
17:00 Egyptian Social Media Stories
19:00 What’s happening? Love.
15.04.2011
10:00 Was ist ein Kontrollverlust?
11:00 Cameras Everywhere
12:00 Policing Content in the Quasi-Public Sphere
14:00 Die Illusion vom öffentlichen Raum
15:00 Die Zukunft des Internets, der Welt und des ganzen Rests
16:00 TV kills the YouTube-Star
17:00 Modeblogs
18:00 Abschluß