Disruptive ProactivityTensions and Design around the PDC
There are two consultations on data currently running, one on Open Data, and one on Public Data.
One size will not fit all, and those tensions must be managed.
Deep Throat
I’m have some interesting conversations recently.
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Beyond 38degrees of your wallet.
“Somewhere along the way, however, we seem to have forgotten that causing political change is about action” — Carne Ross in his LSE talk. He continues “we have slipped from a discourse, from a commitment, an understanding, that it is action that changes things, we’ve shifted from action to inaction, or to, put it bluntly inaction: campaigning”
Never a Southerner.
After a decade working (lately) as a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, I’m mostly moving on (and South, to Cambridge).
It’s been a pleasure to work on large scale social science Government data (under license, contract and restriction) and research methods projects, but now it’s time for something else.
While it is extremely rare that I talk online about my role there, there a clear parallel between some discussions with Dear and Valued Colleagues, and the positions that Bill, Ben, other Ben and others take on the digital age of open data.
For now, I’ll be taking a couple of months break (I hope), working on some fun things, and we’ll see what’s next.
Bill and Ben both say we won…
This is a draft that’s been sitting unpublished for a while, doesn’t really go that far, but is a useful reference for something that might follow.
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