On 17 April 2014 19:00, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Rufus Pollock <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On 15 April 2014 10:34, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> > [snip] > > >> >>> Moving away from the tagline for a moment, what are your thoughts on the >> longer form summary: >> >> <quote> >> A world where knowledge creates power for the many, not the few. >> A world where data frees us — to make informed choices about how we live, >> what we buy and who gets our vote. >> A world where information and insights are accessible — and apparent — to >> everyone. >> This is the world we choose. >> </quote> >> >> I’m concerned at the moment that the tagline is over-dominating the >> analysis and given its (necessary) brevity may be over-interpreted, so I’m >> really keen to get your take on the longer form summary. What do you think? >> >> > This is more balanced. What needs to be added is that we build the tools > of liberation. Many of those are data tools but we also have protocols - > like Panton which although *about* data are more complex than data itself. > And it is very important to emphasize that we work as a community and we > build communities and the tools to build communities. >
Big +1 and we should think how to express this succinctly and in a way that is as understandable as possible to a broad(er) audience (e.g. I totally get what you mean by "tools of liberation" but not sure how it would translate to those outside this mailing list ;-) ...) Rufus
_______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
