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BlogsTags > transparencyFour short links: 29 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 29, 2013 FISA Amendment Hits Non-Citizens — FISAAA essentially makes it lawful for the US to conduct purely political surveillance on foreigners’ data accessible in US Cloud providers. [...] [A] US judiciary subcommittee on FISAAA in 2008 stated that the Fourth Amendment … Four short links: 28 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 28, 2013 Aaron’s Army — powerful words from Carl Malamud. Aaron was part of an army of citizens that believes democracy only works when the citizenry are informed, when we know about our rights—and our obligations. An army that believes we must … 14 big trends to watch in 2013By Alex HowardDecember 22, 2012 2012 was a remarkable year for technology, government and society. In our 2012 year in review, we looked back at 10 trends that mattered. Below, we look ahead to the big ideas and technologies that will change the world, again. … Thin walls and traffic camerasBy Alistair CrollOctober 19, 2012 A couple of years ago, I spoke with a European Union diplomat who shall remain nameless about the governing body’s attitude toward privacy. “Do you know why the French hate traffic cameras?” he asked me. “It’s because it makes it … Open health data in practice: Increase your access to lab resultsBy Tim O'ReillyOctober 16, 2012 I’m convinced that there’s a wave of innovation coming in healthcare, driven by new kinds of data, new ways of extracting meaning from that data, and new business models that data can enable. That’s one of the reasons why we … Four short links: 16 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 16, 2012 cir.ca — news app for iPhone, which lets you track updates and further news on a given story. (via Andy Baio) DataWrangler (Stanford) — an interactive tool for data cleaning and transformation. Spend less time formatting and more time analyzing … Four short links: 27 September 2012
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 27, 2012 Paying for Developers is a Bad Idea (Charlie Kindel) — The companies that make the most profit are those who build virtuous platform cycles. There are no proof points in history of virtuous platform cycles being created when the platform … Four short links: 13 September 2012
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 13, 2012 Patterns for Research in Machine Learning — every single piece of advice should be tattooed under the eyelids of every beginning programmer, regardless of the field. Milton Friedman’s Thermostat — Everybody knows that if you press down on the gas … Four short links: 17 August 2012
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 17, 2012 What Twitter’s API Anouncement Could Have Said (Anil Dash) — read this and learn. Anil shows how powerful it is to communicate from the perspective of the reader. People don’t care about your business model or platform changes except as … Four short links: 3 July 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 3, 2012 OpenROV Funded in 1 Day (Kickstarter) -- an open source robotic submarine designed to make underwater exploration possible for everyone. (via BoingBoing) McAfee Digital Divide Study (PDF) -- lots of numbers showing parents are unaware of what their kids do. (via Julie Starr) Herdict -- crowdsourced transparency to reveal who is censoring what online. (via Twitter) You Really Really... Data journalism research at Columbia aims to close data science skills gap
By Alex HowardMay 22, 2012 In this interview, the director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University talks about the challenges and opportunities that face those who would practice data journalism in the 21st century. In particular, Emily Bell discusses the skills and mindset that are needed, including how a $2 million research grant will help support developing them. Data journalism research at Columbia aims to close data science skills gapBy Alex HowardMay 22, 2012 In this interview, the director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University talks about the challenges and opportunities that face those who would practice data journalism in the 21st century. In particular, Emily Bell discusses the skills and mindset that are needed, including how a $2 million research grant will help support developing them. Data journalism research at Columbia aims to close data science skills gapBy Alex HowardMay 22, 2012 In this interview, the director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University talks about the challenges and opportunities that face those who would practice data journalism in the 21st century. In particular, Emily Bell discusses the skills and mindset that are needed, including how a $2 million research grant will help support developing them. Four short links: 17 April 2012
By Nat TorkingtonApril 17, 2012 Penguins Counted From Space (Reuters) -- I love the unintended flow-on effects of technological progress. Nobody funded satellites because they'd help us get an accurate picture of wildlife in the Antarctic, but yet here we are. The street finds a use ... What Makes a Super-Spreader? -- A super-spreader is a person who transmits an infection to a significantly... Top Stories: October 31-November 4, 2011 
By Mac SlocumNovember 4, 2011 This week on O'Reilly: Former author Robbie Allen explained his shift to software-generated writing, Terence Craig said transparency is the best way to handle digital privacy, and we learned how a simple question can keep data companies honest. What does privacy mean in an age of big data? November 2, 2011 Ironclad digital privacy isn't realistic, argues "Privacy and Big Data" co-author Terence Craig. What we need instead are laws and commitments founded on transparency. What does privacy mean in an age of big data?By Audrey WattersNovember 2, 2011 Ironclad digital privacy isn't realistic, argues "Privacy and Big Data" co-author Terence Craig. What we need instead are laws and commitments founded on transparency. Strata Week: IBM puts Hadoop in the cloud October 27, 2011 IBM targets businesses with a cloud-based Hadoop product, Factual tackles incomplete geo records, and Google embraces transparency by publishing and explaining the data requests it gets from governments. Strata Week: IBM puts Hadoop in the cloudBy Audrey WattersOctober 27, 2011 IBM targets businesses with a cloud-based Hadoop product, Factual tackles incomplete geo records, and Google embraces transparency by publishing and explaining the data requests it gets from governments. Cooking the dataBy Alistair CrollSeptember 20, 2011 Open data and transparency aren't enough: we need True Data, not Big Data, as well as regulators and lawmakers willing to act on it. Advances, setbacks, and continuing impediments to government transparency
By Andy OramJune 16, 2011 The good, the bad, and the edgy in open government at Computers, Freedom & Privacy. Should the patent office open its internal guidelines to the public?
By Andy OramJune 3, 2011 Anyone following policy issues around technological innovation has noticed the power and scope of patents expanding over time. To understand the forces contributing to this, I recommend a thoughtful, readable summary--and highlight the role played by internal documents at the patent office. An ethical bargain June 1, 2011 Most of the relationships you build with corporations are like icebergs — essentially hidden from view. But what if we could interact with "human" corporations? What would that look like? How would it work? Why the eG8 mattered to the future of the Internet and society
By Alex HowardMay 31, 2011 If the Internet has become the public arena for our time, as the official G8 statement emphasized, then experts say we must defend the openness and freedoms that have supported its development. Four short links: 1 April 2011
By Nat TorkingtonApril 1, 2011 Transparency Sites to Close -- the US government's open data efforts will close in a few months as a result of the cuts in funding. Browser Wars, Plural (Alex Russell) -- nice rundown of demos of what modern browsers are capable of. Brief Descriptions of Potential Home Information Services (image) -- lovely 1971 piece of futurology, which you can... White House releases IT Dashboard as open source code
By Alex HowardMarch 31, 2011 With the open source release of the IT Dashboard, an application that was developed on behalf of government agencies can now be implemented and further customized by other potential government users and developers at the city, state or international level. Samantha Power on transparency, national security and open government
By Alex HowardNovember 19, 2010 Samantha Power, special assistant to the President for multilateral affairs and human rights, discusses the relationship between open government, technology, human rights and transparency. Four short links: 20 August 2010
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 20, 2010 Case Study: Slideshare Goes Freemium (Startup Lessons Learned) -- I love case studies, they're the best part of every business degree. The MVPs were tricky to implement for emotional reasons, too. Because the SlideShare team was used to giving away a high-value product, engineers balked at charging for a clearly imperfect product. The analytics package, for instance, launched in... Four short links: 7 July 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 7, 2010 The Way I Work: Justin Kan of JustinTV (Inc Magazine) -- I admit it, I had written Justin off as "that irritating guy who went around with a camera on all the time" but it turns out he's quite thoughtful about what he does. I try to keep the meetings small, especially when we're doing product design. If you... Four short links: 29 June 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJune 29, 2010 The Diary of Samuel Pepys -- a remarkable mashup of historical information and literature in modern technology to make the Pepys diaries an experience rather than an object. It includes historical weather, glosses, maps, even an encyclopedia. (prompted by Jon Udell) The Tonido Plug Server -- one of many such wall-wart sized appliances. This caught my eye: CodeLathe, the... European Union starts project about economic effects of open government data
By Andy OramJune 11, 2010 Open source advocate Marco Fioretti has just announced the start of a study on open data for the European Union, with a focus on economic benefits for local businesses. Related surveys are also mentioned. Four short links: 31 May 2010
By Nat TorkingtonMay 31, 2010 Transparency is Not Enough (danah boyd) -- we need people to not just have access to the data, but have access to the context surrounding the data. A very thoughtful talk from Gov 2.0 Expo about meaningful data release. Feed6 -- the latest from Rohit Khare is a sort of a "hot or not" for pictures posted to Twitter.... Rethinking Open Data
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 2, 2010 In the last year I've been involved in two open data projects, Open New Zealand and data.govt.nz. I believe in learning from experience and I've seen some signs recently that other projects might benefit from my experience, so this post is a recap of what I've learned. It's the byproduct of a summer reflection on my last nine months working... Four short links: 2 December 2009
By Nat TorkingtonDecember 2, 2009 8 Million Reasons for Real Surveillance Oversight -- Sprint set up a self-service portal for law enforcement and returned 8 million requests for cellphone GPS locations in the first year. This is an incredibly comprehensive analysis of published and revealed numbers of surveillance--it's orders of magnitude larger than anyone had realised. See also the leaked law enforcement howtos from Facebook, MySpace, and Yahoo!. This and more in today's Four Short Links. Larry Lessig and Naked Transparency
By Carl MalamudOctober 10, 2009 Larry Lessig had a dream. In this dream, he was standing on K Street, preaching in the dark. Suddenly, a naked posse on Segways went whizzing by, shining their flashlights in people's faces. Bystanders were all blinded by these random lights and lost their night vision. When Larry turned around, the naked posse was racing towards the White House for an open government rally, trailed by a screaming mob of marijuana-smoking birthers. ICANN without restraints: the difficulties of coordinating stakeholders
By Andy OramOctober 2, 2009 The U.S. Department of Commerce, which is ICANN's publicly accountable overseer, announced the most important decision affecting ICANN since its founding: the U.S. government will give up its role as overseer and make ICANN independent. Four short links: 25 September 2009
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 25, 2009 Diesel: A Case Study In That Thing I Just Said -- a new asynchronous I/O library in Python, which earned this fabulous review from Glyph Lefkowitz who wrote the granddaddy of all asynch libraries in Python, Twisted. Again, I don't want to dump on Diesel here; for what it is, i.e. an experiment in how to idiomatically structure asynchronous... Computerization in Nilekani's Imagining India
By Andy OramAugust 31, 2009 Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation promises to occupy a central position in discussions about India as well as the world economy this year. Particularly relevant to this blog are the book's observations on computers' role in the economy and society. Four short links: 7 August 2009
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 6, 2009 Defragging the Stimulus -- each [recovery] site has its own silo of data, and no site is complete. What we need is a unified point of access to all sources of information: firsthand reports from Recovery.gov and state portals, commentary from StimulusWatch and MetaCarta, and more. Suggests that Recovery.gov should be the hub for this presently-decentralised pile of recovery... Privacy and open government: conversations with EPIC and others about OpenID
By Andy OramAugust 3, 2009 Ideas about privacy policies, anonymity, and technical impacts, springing from a discussion with a director from the Electronic Privacy Information Center and from comments on an earlier blog. Shortening cookies: Using OpenID to improve government privacy online
By Andy OramJuly 30, 2009 The OMB recently requested new perspectives on the federal cookie policy. My proposal took the opportunity to re-examine the federal approach to privacy. Four short links: 16 July 2009
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 15, 2009 Transparency Camp West -- a few more slots left for Google-hosted Aug 8 and 9 Bar Camp on open government. Meeting Ticker -- count the cost of a meeting in real time, just enter the number of people, the time it started, and the average salary. (via make on Twitter) More Creative Shops Are Commercializing Their Own Product Lines... Personal Democracy Forum conference: initial themes
By Andy OramJune 29, 2009 The first day at the Personal Democracy Forum conference revolved around the freedom to experiment, necessary infrastructure, and the need to change. Personal Democracy Forum ramp-up: adaptive legislation can respond to action in the agora
By Andy OramJune 24, 2009 If legislatures could rely on public participation during the implementation of the law, they could write laws that embrace such input. Personal Democracy Forum ramp-up: twenty-five hundred years of Government 2.0
By Andy OramJune 19, 2009 New practices in government transparency are just intensifications of things democracies have done for a long time: public comment periods, expert consultation, archiving deliberations, and so forth. So let's look back a bit at what democracy has brought to government so far. Personal Democracy Forum ramp-up: from vulnerability and overload to rage, mistrust, and fear
By Andy OramJune 16, 2009 The grand vision for government/public collaboration is a set of feedback loops that intensify the influence of the collective will on government policy. But will the White House have the time and resources to establish a foothold for a solid and lasting open government program? Local forums to implement high-speed networks (broadband); proposal open for votes
By Andy OramMay 24, 2009 I've posted a proposal titled Local forums to implement high-speed networks (broadband) to a forum on open government put up by the White House. Voting is currently underway. Four short links: 30 Apr 2009
By Nat TorkingtonApril 30, 2009 Ypulse Conference -- conference on marketing to youth with technology, from the very savvy Anastasia Goodstein who runs the interesting Ypulse blog on youth culture that I've raved about before. Register with the code RADAR for a 10% discount (thanks, Anastasia!). Government in the Global Village -- departing post by the NZ CIO (and Kiwi Foo Camper) Laurence Millar.... Transparency: The Key to Cloud Security
By George ReeseApril 19, 2009 If your cloud provider refuses to answer any specific question about their security architecture related to your security requirements, run--don't walk--away from that vendor Four short links: 14 Apr 2009
By Nat TorkingtonApril 14, 2009 Open data, lean startups, RSS-as-newspaper, and a design call to arms: OpenSecrets Goes Open Data -- The following data sets, along with a user guide, resource tables and other documentation, are now available in CSV format (comma-separated values, for easy importing) through OpenSecrets.org's Action Center [...] : CAMPAIGN FINANCE: 195 million records dating to the 1989-1990 election cycle, tracking campaign... 1 to 50 of 63 Next Stay Connected
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