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Ted Strauss
Thanks James, I'll contact Stephane.
Ted


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Today's Topics:

   1. Transparency International: Does open data make development
      more accountable? The case of Colombia (Tracey P. Lauriault)
   2. Re: CivicAccess-discuss Digest, Vol 65,   Issue 11 (Ted Strauss)
   3. Re: CivicAccess-discuss Digest, Vol 65,   Issue 11 (James McKinney)


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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:59:31 -0500
From: "Tracey P. Lauriault" <[hidden email]>
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Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] Transparency International: Does open
        data make development more accountable? The case of Colombia
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It is an interesting question!  I would say sometimes, and it depends on
who is mobilized around the information being disseminated, as the
information on its own cannot bring forward much change.

http://blog.transparency.org/2012/12/13/does-open-data-make-development-more-accountable-the-case-of-colombia/

Lisa Parks critically discusses this further here - *Digging into Google
Earth: An analysis of ??Crisis in Darfur?*, Geoforum 40 (2009) 535?545
*Abstract:*

> Google publicists have suggested the Crisis in Darfur is an example of the
> Google Earth software?s ??suc- cess at tangibly impacting what is happening
> on the ground.? Yet whether or not Google Earth?s interface, along with a
> medley of other media representations of the conflict, have impacted events
> on the ground or led to coherent policies of humanitarian intervention
> remains open to debate. This article draws upon critical approaches from
> media studies?namely discourse analysis?to analyze several aspects of the
> Google Earth/USHMM Crisis in Darfur project. While this project was no
> doubt developed with the noble intention of generating international
> awareness about widespread violence that has recently occurred in the
> Darfur region, it is important to evaluate how representations of global
> conflicts are changing with uses of new information technologies and
> whether such representations can actually achieve their desired impacts or
> effects. The article begins with a discussion of the Crisis in Darfur
> project?s history, proceeds to analyze some of the press coverage of the
> project and then moves to a critique of the layer using four categories of
> analysis: (1) the shifting role of satellite image; (2) the temporality of
> the inter- face; (3) the practice of conflict branding; and (4) the
> practice of ??information intervention.? Throughout the article, I explore
> how the presentation of Darfur-related materials through Google Earth
> reproduces problematic Western tropes of African tragedy and misses an
> opportunity to generate public literacy around satellite images. I also
> consider how humanitarianism is intertwined with digital and disaster
> capitalism, and suggest that this instance of ??information intervention?
> makes patently clear that high visual capital alone cannot resolve global
> conflicts.
>

--
Tracey P. Lauriault
Post Doctoral Fellow
Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
<a href="http://datalibre.ca/ 613-234-2805" target="_blank">http://datalibre.ca/
613-234-2805
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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:58:42 -0500
From: Ted Strauss <[hidden email]>
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Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] CivicAccess-discuss Digest, Vol 65,
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Thanks Tracey for sharing these recent items, especially the conference
proceedings,
which looks amazing.

Question. Are people on this list aware of the International Open Data Day
that appears to
be planned for Feb 23, 2013 -- http://opendataday.org/
There is some activity on the project wiki (
http://wiki.opendataday.org/Main_Page) but
perhaps not as much as I'd expect for an event that's ~2 months away.
I'm ready to help organize this for Montreal, if anyone on this list is
involved or wants to
be, please reply so we can make this happen.

Ted Strauss

Trudat.co


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> http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/francis-maude/a-practical-vision-for-open-government_b_2276548.html
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> --
> Tracey P. Lauriault
> Post Doctoral Fellow
> Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre
> https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
> http://datalibre.ca/
> <a href="tel:613-234-2805" value="+16132342805">613-234-2805
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> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:11:12 -0500
> From: "Tracey P. Lauriault" <[hidden email]>
> To: civicaccess discuss <[hidden email]>
> Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] The Case for International Sharing of
>         Scientific Data: A Focus on Developing Countries
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> >
> > The Board on International Scientific Organizations (BISO), and the U.S.
> > Committee on Data for Science and Technology (US CODATA) under the Board
> on
> > Research Data and Information (BRDI), in consultation with the Committee
> on
> > Freedom and Responsibility in the conduct of Science (CFRS) of the
> > International Council for Science ICSU), organized a 2-day international
> > symposium in Washington, DC on 18-19 April 2011 on *The Case for
> > International Sharing of Scientific Data: A Focus on Developing Countries
> > *. The main objective of the symposium was to gain a better understanding
> > of the data access and sharing situation in the developing world, with a
> > focus on barriers, opportunities, and future actions.
> >
> >
> >
> > A free PDF is available electronically (after registering) at:
> > http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=17019<
> http://click.newsletters.nas.edu/?qs=f1c58a2e527d84e405283fce3cac47202724e8b952fe342eb77960be8e14f16d
> >.
> > Print copies may be ordered through the National Academies Press (
> http://www.nap.edu
> >
> > <
> http://click.newsletters.nas.edu/?qs=f1c58a2e527d84e428e7463698bcb7d81ff428c2bc2512e8930e6f2e6258c71c
> >),
> > and additional information about the background of this project is on the
> > Board's website at
> http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/brdi/PGA_080336<
> http://click.newsletters.nas.edu/?qs=f1c58a2e527d84e4c23e4ab0778641a9aa57f89876f70331ec59f234eb082184
> >.
> >
>
>
> --
> Tracey P. Lauriault
> Post Doctoral Fellow
> Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre
> https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:09:01 -0500
From: James McKinney <[hidden email]>
To: civicaccess discuss <[hidden email]>
Cc: St?phane Guidoin <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] CivicAccess-discuss Digest, Vol 65,
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Hi Ted,

St?phane Guidoin is currently leading the planning for an event in Montreal, and is coordinating with Quebec Ouvert, Capitale Ouverte and Gatineau Ouvert. He's in cc if you'd like to help in the event planning.

Cheers,

James

On 2012-12-13, at 1:58 PM, Ted Strauss wrote:

> Thanks Tracey for sharing these recent items, especially the conference proceedings,
> which looks amazing.
>
> Question. Are people on this list aware of the International Open Data Day that appears to
> be planned for Feb 23, 2013 -- http://opendataday.org/
> There is some activity on the project wiki (http://wiki.opendataday.org/Main_Page) but
> perhaps not as much as I'd expect for an event that's ~2 months away.
> I'm ready to help organize this for Montreal, if anyone on this list is involved or wants to
> be, please reply so we can make this happen.
>
> Ted Strauss
>
> Trudat.co
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:00 PM, <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. Huff Post: A Practical Vision for Open    Government
>       (Tracey P. Lauriault)
>    2. The Case for International Sharing of Scientific Data: A
>       Focus on Developing Countries (Tracey P. Lauriault)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:20:04 -0500
> From: "Tracey P. Lauriault" <[hidden email]>
> To: civicaccess discuss <[hidden email]>
> Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] Huff Post: A Practical Vision for Open
>         Government
> Message-ID:
>         <CAPT_w+=r4=Q3Q28iaU-_dN=[hidden email]>
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>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/francis-maude/a-practical-vision-for-open-government_b_2276548.html
>
> --
> Tracey P. Lauriault
> Post Doctoral Fellow
> Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre
> https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
> http://datalibre.ca/
> <a href="tel:613-234-2805" value="+16132342805">613-234-2805
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:11:12 -0500
> From: "Tracey P. Lauriault" <[hidden email]>
> To: civicaccess discuss <[hidden email]>
> Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] The Case for International Sharing of
>         Scientific Data: A Focus on Developing Countries
> Message-ID:
>         <[hidden email]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> >
> > The Board on International Scientific Organizations (BISO), and the U.S.
> > Committee on Data for Science and Technology (US CODATA) under the Board on
> > Research Data and Information (BRDI), in consultation with the Committee on
> > Freedom and Responsibility in the conduct of Science (CFRS) of the
> > International Council for Science ICSU), organized a 2-day international
> > symposium in Washington, DC on 18-19 April 2011 on *The Case for
> > International Sharing of Scientific Data: A Focus on Developing Countries
> > *. The main objective of the symposium was to gain a better understanding
> > of the data access and sharing situation in the developing world, with a
> > focus on barriers, opportunities, and future actions.
> >
> >
> >
> > A free PDF is available electronically (after registering) at:
> > http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=17019<http://click.newsletters.nas.edu/?qs=f1c58a2e527d84e405283fce3cac47202724e8b952fe342eb77960be8e14f16d>.
> > Print copies may be ordered through the National Academies Press (http://www.nap.edu
> >
> > <http://click.newsletters.nas.edu/?qs=f1c58a2e527d84e428e7463698bcb7d81ff428c2bc2512e8930e6f2e6258c71c>),
> > and additional information about the background of this project is on the
> > Board's website at  http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/brdi/PGA_080336<http://click.newsletters.nas.edu/?qs=f1c58a2e527d84e4c23e4ab0778641a9aa57f89876f70331ec59f234eb082184>.
> >
>
>
> --
> Tracey P. Lauriault
> Post Doctoral Fellow
> Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre
> https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
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