{"id":3737,"date":"2014-12-10T11:18:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T15:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/?p=3737"},"modified":"2014-12-10T11:18:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T15:18:50","slug":"tim-davies-on-unpacking-open-data-power-politics-and-the-influence-of-infrastructures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/2014\/12\/10\/tim-davies-on-unpacking-open-data-power-politics-and-the-influence-of-infrastructures\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Davies on Unpacking Open Data: Power, Politics and the Influence of Infrastructures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Countries, states & cities across the globe are embracing the idea of ‘open data’: establishing platforms, portals and projects to share government managed data online for re-use. Yet, right now, the anticipated civic impacts of open data rarely materialize, and the gap between the promise and the reality of open data remains wide.<\/p>\n

In this talk, Tim Davies — Berkman affiliate and a social researcher focussing on the development of the open government data landscape around the world — questions the ways in which changing regimes around data can reconfigure power and politics, and considers opportunities to re-imagine the open data project, not merely as one of placing datasets online, but as one that can positively reshape the knowledge infrastructures of civic life.<\/p>\n

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\nAlso in ogg for download<\/a><\/p>\n

More info on this event here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

BONUS: watch Willow Brugh’s<\/a> live animation<\/a> of this discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Countries, states & cities across the globe are embracing the idea of ‘open data’: establishing platforms, portals and projects to share government managed data online for re-use. Yet, right now, the anticipated civic impacts of open data rarely materialize, and the gap between the promise and the reality of open data remains wide. In this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[590],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3741,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737\/revisions\/3741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}