[p2p-research] FW: Blogpost: Open Data: Empowering the Empowered or Effective Data Use for Everyone?

[j.martin.pedersen]

This is a good argument. And you can add environmental justice and
solidarity with labour to it, which means that you need to address the
very mode of production, energy and other resource that the production
of IT involves. Generally Free Culture and Free Software advocates are
blind to these aspects.

On 03/09/10 04:01, Michel Bauwens wrote:
> very interesting michael, I facebooked it and will also excerpt on september
> 6 in our p2p blog, many thanks,
> 
> Michel
> 
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I thought you folks might have an interest...
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>> M
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>> Efforts to extend access to "data" will perhaps inevitably create a "data
>> divide" parallel to the oft-discussed "digital divide" between those who
>> have access to data which could have significance in their daily lives and
>> those who don't. Associated with this will one can assume, be many of the
>> same background conditions which have been identified as likely reasons for
>> the digital divide-that is differences in income, education, literacy and
>> so
>> on.  However, just as with the "digital divide", these divisions don't
>> simply stop or be resolved with the provision of digital (or data)
>> "access".
>> What is necessary as well, is that those for whom access is being provided
>> are in a position to actually make use of the now available access (to the
>> Internet or to data) in ways that are meaningful and beneficial for them.
>>
>>
>> http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/open-data-empowering-the-empowered-
>> or-effective-data-use-for-everyone/
>>
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