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Hi Tracey,
You may want to check out today's news articles and analysis of the new Calgary mayor - Naheed Nenshi, who by all accounts won through social web tools.
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1. QUESTION - Will Open data change the elections and encourage
more youth to vote? (Tracey P. Lauriault)
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encourage more youth to vote? (Drew Mcpherson)
3. Re: QUESTION - Will Open data change the elections and
encourage more youth to vote? (Drew Mcpherson)
4. PublicScience.ca (Tracey P. Lauriault)
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All;
I just got an email from a journalist asking if I could speak to how open
data tools and their affect on elections and if youth would be more engaged
as a result.
I responded that I would talk with her but that since we have no mechanism
in place to measure the effectiveness of these tools, nor am I aware of any
website stats on how many users there are for these elections sites, I
cannot objectively state that I can attest to a difference. The best I
think I can do for her, is suggest that the nature of the conversation is
changing.
Any other insight? Does someone else want to be interviewed instead of me?
Cheers
t
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Hi Tracey,
I might be able to speak about this somewhat, being that I am relatively young (only 33) and have been historically uninterested in voting, yet when I came across the atrocious "open data" situation of the federal travel and hospitality budget, I was inspired to get involved and make a difference. I can't speak for everyone but I could perhaps at least elaborate more on my personal situation and interest in it, which is probably at least a cross-section of the population on some level.
Anyway, feel free to forward my contact information to the journalist in case she's interested in hearing more about it.
Cheers,
Drew Mcpherson
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All;
I just got an email from a journalist asking if I could speak to how open data tools and their affect on elections and if youth would be more engaged as a result.
I responded that I would talk with her but that since we have no mechanism in place to measure the effectiveness of these tools, nor am I aware of any website stats on how many users there are for these elections sites, I cannot objectively state that I can attest to a difference. The best I think I can do for her, is suggest that the nature of the conversation is changing.
Any other insight? Does someone else want to be interviewed instead of me?
Cheers
t
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Here are some ideas I just wrote up on this topic that kind of turned into a bit more, but I thought I'd post it anyway just for fun:
Voting just doesn't feel like it makes much of a difference. It's like ordering a hamburger and the question is do you want cheese or not? Well, I'm not allergic to cheese, so either way is fine with me, it's still a hamburger, I might not even notice if it has cheese on it if I'm distracted with something else at the moment.
Young people like me need to have outlets whereby they can provide their input in more creative and concrete ways. They need to feel like they are actually affecting the world around them in a positive and unique way. By providing them with open data which they can use to augment and inspire their society, they will get involved and be an active part of society.
I believe the main purpose of voting is to actively engage the population and have them feel like they are an integral part of society. For a lot of young people who have taken a statistics course, this illusion feels like a complete and utter waste of time. We'd much rather spend our time doing something which we can put effort into, work towards a goal and actually see the beneficial effect of that progress.
We don't necessarily want to work for the government full-time, but spending a few minutes at the poll to vote just feels completely useless. We'd much rather provide positive input into our society through business or a personal hobby. Not all business has to be about making as much profit as possible.
Sometimes business can be focussed on improving the health, happiness and well-being of people and society in general. This is the general principle behind a business and social architecture I call equilism. It's a restructuring of individual and social principles to shift popular perception away from the valuation of capital and more towards valuing health and happiness and social harmony.
Capitalism is good, but anything out of balance can cause problems. The common capitalist problem right now is greed, and that I believe is the fundamental flaw which has resulted in the recent economic downturn. I also believe this to be the root cause of many recent health epidemics of strange diseases of imbalance that aren't caused by any infectious biological agent, but rather by an infectious psychological agent - greed.
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All;
I just got an email from a journalist asking if I could speak to how open data tools and their affect on elections and if youth would be more engaged as a result.
I responded that I would talk with her but that since we have no mechanism in place to measure the effectiveness of these tools, nor am I aware of any website stats on how many users there are for these elections sites, I cannot objectively state that I can attest to a difference. The best I think I can do for her, is suggest that the nature of the conversation is changing.
Any other insight? Does someone else want to be interviewed instead of me?
Cheers
t
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This is an incredible initiative - http://www.publicscience.ca
This initiative started because public scientists are watching evidence
based decision making disappear especially if the results of their science
do not align with the new national truth sayers "political media relations".
Our public protectors in a sense have had to bypass the mechanics of the
state to create their own website.
> Austerity measures the Liberal government of the 1990s imposed to tackle a
> deficit have never been lifted, said Gary Corbett, the union president. At
> the same time, the Conservatives have imposed restrictions to curtail
> interaction between the scientists and the media. And there has been a move
> away from evidence-based decision making, he said.
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> The *decision to replace the mandatory long-form census with a voluntary
> questionnaire over the objection of professional statisticians was one more
> step in what the union calls a worrying trend on the part of the government
> to discount the importance of the work of its scientists. *
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> The aim of the website ?is to bring focus and attention to the value of
> scientists who work in intramural science, those who work in federal
> government departments and agencies on things like the quality of water, the
> quality of air, the quality of toys coming into the country, the quality of
> the food we eat,? Mr. Corbett said.
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Good, because in the absence of a national science foundation that assembles
our best minds to resolve particular problems or to work collectively to
avoid catastrophe, and the absence of governments who can handle the truth,
scientists via their union have created a space for the rest of us to get
access to our public science.
> More than 23,000 scientists, researchers and regulators work in government
> departments, agencies and laboratories.
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> They inspect and approve the food we eat, the toys and products we use and
> the vaccines and medications we depend on.
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> These scientists also issue the weather forecasts and storm warnings our
> communities depend on, ensure the safety of different modes of
> transportation and respond to critical emergencies that threaten lives and
> the environment.
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> Their research contributes to solutions to global problems such as climate
> change, pandemics, sustainable development and feeding a hungry planet.
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Lets see what this does - we may get smarter after all!
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