And to reply to myself (poor form, sorry) about the subject of important things about open data that we strategically don't publicize very much, I would argue that it's become clear that the power of open data is less about opening, and more about standardizing. Standardizing is normally very slow and laborious work and it isn't very sexy, however, so "open" it is. I think by not even calling it what it is means that it can be done quickly without the usual committees (and the attendant interest groups). I think IATI is a great example of that.
Most of the work I plan on doing over the next few five years is standards development (and adoption). And that subject is what I find uber geeks are now discussing at conferences and meetups. Open North is doing some great work and has learned a lot about standards development and adoption since it began.
Anyways, the reason I brought it up is that BoingBoing just posted a nice intro to a Boston Globe article about a new book about about the development of accounting.
"How accounting forced transparency on the aristocracy and changed the world"
http://boingboing.net/2014/06/24/how-accounting-forced-transpar.html"Jacob Soll is a professor of history at the University of Southern California. His new book, “The Reckoning: Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations” (Basic Books), was released in April."
Michael Lenczner
CEO, Ajah
http://www.ajah.ca514-708-5112
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> Very cool conference. This is the kind of application of data that certain people (*cough* Tracey *cough*) thought that us "app developers" were ignoring, when in fact, this has been a focus all along. It just required talking a lot more about startups than about social justice over the first 5 years. ;)
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> I expect to see a lot more of this stuff in the near future - and Montreal's Ecohack (
http://ecohackmtl.org/) is another good example. This week I'll be working on a proposal on publishing non-profit data for the federal open gov consultation.
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> CKX is another example. Open data and social services people hanging out to talk about research, data-informed decisions and policy, etc.
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http://ckx.org/summit/partners/
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