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If European senior, jobless or student citizens knew that...
(this is a reformatted version of a proposal I submitted to the Gdansk Agenda website in September 2011) According to a survey published in December 2011 from the EU statistical agency, more than 100 million EU citizens have never surfed the Web. That’s why one of the goal of the Gdansk Agenda is digital inclusion. When I put that survey side by side with the crisis Europe is going through, it seems evident to me that both simple ECDL-style teaching on how to use computers and the Internet and bringing broadband everywhere are absolutely unsufficient to achieve digital inclusion.
A partial answer to "Open Data: who profits?"
Andy Oram (@praxagora on Twitter) just pointed to my attention what Steven Feldman asked Friday: #OpenData - who profits?.Thanks Andy!
Open Data for crime prevention: some food for thought from Brazil
Last October I was invited to the first Brazilian National Meeting on Open Data. One of the things I brought back is lots of thoughts about the potential of Open Data about crime.
Eleven Things to remember from the 2011 Open Government Data Camp
This year I participated to the Open Government Data Camp in Warsaw, to present a proposal about Open Data and Education. During the Camp I met many great people and heard lots of great things, but for a thousand reasons I had no possibility to put order in my notes before today. Better late than never. Since many others have already given complete reports of the Camp, I’ll only add a couple of things. The first is my very own list of the “11 Most Relevant Quotes from the 2011 OGD Camp”: