Posted by
Russell McOrmond on
Feb 28, 2013; 3:44pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/The-case-for-context-in-defining-Open-Data-tp5474p5513.html
On 13-02-27 10:11 PM, michael gurstein wrote:
> Many indigenous peoples are extremely protective of their "indigenous
> knowledge" for precisely those reasons since that knowledge is their way of
> living with their land.
I believe we are unnecessarily conflating very different things, which
makes it harder for people with different (and sometimes incompatible)
motivations to work together on otherwise common tasks.
What you are discussing are reasons for indigenous groups not to
disclose information to a government, a reason for the government not to
collect information, or the reason for a government to consider
collected information as secret (and internally protect adequately, not
to be disclosed - and definitely not to be sold/etc).
I don't see how any of these issues relate to the question of what
specific terms are used for the wide (commercial, non-commercial, open,
etc) disclosure of information. When we are discussing whether
something is "Open Data" or "Close Data" it is still released data.
Note: It is political differences that are best kept outside of the
Free/Libre and Open data/source-software/etc movements to get into the
weeds about indigenous knowledge issues. Many "land owners" (even if
the word "own" is inappropriate) believe there is something special
about "their" knowledge and "their" land. It is often controversial
politics to discuss indigenous land any differently than any other land.
If Winusk has a "right" to block mapping, then nearly all mapping
should be able to be blocked by individual "landowners" and nearly all
maps and mapping made illegal (or effectively impractical/impossible)
overnight.
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