{"id":2561,"date":"2010-05-27T21:50:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T02:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2010-05-27T21:50:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T02:50:21","slug":"transparency-is-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2010\/05\/27\/transparency-is-not-enough.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Transparency is Not Enough&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov2expo.com\/gov2expo2010\">Gov2.0<\/a> this week, I gave a talk on the importance of information literacy when addressing transparency of government data:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danah.org\/papers\/talks\/2010\/Gov2Expo.html\"><strong>&#8220;Transparency is Not Enough&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I address everything from registered sex offenders to what happens when politicians don&#8217;t like data to the complexities of interpretation. \u00a0In doing so, I make three key points:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Information is power, but interpretation is more powerful<\/li>\n<li>Data taken out of context can have unintended consequences<\/li>\n<li>Transparency alone is not the great equalizer<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>My talk is also available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1nNgXBIMass\">YouTube<\/a> if you prefer to listen to a different version of the same message (since my crib is what I intended to say and the video is what actually came out of my mouth).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Gov2.0 this week, I gave a talk on the importance of information literacy when addressing transparency of government data: &#8220;Transparency is Not Enough&#8221; I address everything from registered sex offenders to what happens when politicians don&#8217;t like data to the complexities of interpretation. \u00a0In doing so, I make three key points: Information is power, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[841,521,836],"class_list":["post-2561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-data","tag-information","tag-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2596,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions\/2596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}