Publisher: African Minds Publishers, South Africa
Pages: 590
Year: 2019
Category: Development Studies, Social Sciences
Dimensions: 254 x 178mm
The State of Open Data
Histories and Horizons
It’s been ten years since open data first broke
onto the global stage. Over the past decade, thousands of programmes
and projects around the world have worked to open data and use it to
address a myriad of social and economic challenges. Meanwhile, issues
related to data rights and privacy have moved to the centre of public
and political discourse. As the open data movement enters a new phase in
its evolution, shifting to target real-world problems and embed open
data thinking into other existing or emerging communities of practice,
big questions still remain. How will open data initiatives respond to
new concerns about privacy, inclusion, and artificial intelligence? And
what can we learn from the last decade in order to deliver impact where
it is most needed?
The State of Open Data
brings together over 60 authors from around the world to address these
questions and to take stock of the real progress made to date across
sectors and around the world, uncovering the issues that will shape the
future of open data in the years to come.
£74.00 – £78.00
About the editors
Tim Davies is an activist, researcher, and social entrepreneur, who has
been working on themes related to open data since 2009. A social
researcher by training, Tim has been a fellow of the Berkman Centre for
Internet and Society and has studied at the Oxford Internet Institute
and University of Southampton Web Science Centre.
Stephen B. Walker is the former Director General responsible for leading
open government and open data for the Government of Canada, where he
developed and implemented national policies, programmes, and
infrastructure to advance open data. At the international level, Steve
was directly involved in the development of the G8 Open Data Charter as
well as the Open Data Charter. He also chaired the Open Government
Partnership’s Working Group on Open Data. More recently, Steve has
worked with the Open Data for Development (OD4D) network and managed the
International Open Data Conference. Steve also runs his own consulting
company, True North Consulting, specialising in advancing open data and
transparency policies and practices.
Mor Rubinstein is an open data practitioner with more than ten years of
experience. She was a Community Coordinator and the Lead Researcher for
Open Knowledge International’s Global Open Data Index. She is currently
the Labs Manager for 360Giving, a UK initiative for opening up
philanthropic grants data for better grant-making. She is also the
co-founder and coordinator of the Open Heroines community, a global
community for women in open data, open government, and civic tech. She
holds a Master of Science in Social Science of the Internet from the
Oxford Internet Institute.
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