Re: [HOT] [CrisisMappers] knight civic media session

2013-06-24 Thread Liz Barry
Great discussion! I am pondering this framing of citizen engagement in data collection as filling in a "gap" or "gaps", and also thinking more broadly than the humanitarian or crisis response cases initially specified. I would offer that *grassroots generated data that is created in response to gr

Re: [HOT] [CrisisMappers] knight civic media session

2013-06-23 Thread alyssa wright
Wow, Jeff. These are amazing. Let's definitely talk more tonight!? Would love to hear your and others thoughts about the latter suggestion around community directed data collection. Alyssa. On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Jeffrey Warren wrote: > 2 big ones from the Public Lab perspective: >

Re: [HOT] [CrisisMappers] knight civic media session

2013-06-23 Thread Jeffrey Warren
2 big ones from the Public Lab perspective: A) Citizen collected data as a piece in the government transparency puzzle -- i.e. that citizens' ability to independently collect, interpret, and publish their own data can play a role in keeping government (and industry) accountable. Government transpa