At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up.
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He leads the World Wide Web Consortium, overseeing the Web's standards and development.
- Sep 14 2011: Do these data churners take in information gathered from surveys, or just volunteers' input? I always wondered how we could use data to solve the problems that people always bring up in conversations. How long do Macs last versus PCs? Surely there's a way to ask people to submit how long their computers have lasted (with all the repairs they've done, etc.) to put an end to the debate.
Japanese- vs. U.S. -made cars?
iPhones vs. Blackberrys?
It'd be nice to see a real, "neutral" source for these things instead of listening to sales pitches or reading them on google searches. - Mar 9 2010: Technology that provides secure internet banking capabilities could easily deliver secure voting capabilities. When that is combined with information available on a world wide web of data, outlined here, people will be able to easily stay informed and vote in a knowledgeable fashion.
For example, if the section on Gov't monitoring, "Where's the money go", was extended to include a voting function something like "Where SHOULD the money go" it could drive Gov't at the most significant level, expediture of tax dollars!!
Direct democracy, allowing people to vote on issues rather than for politicians is fast becoming a possibility due to the internet.
Will England, the home of modern democracy, and THE leader in the provision of online information, deliver this new internet based direct democracy? What a coup that would be.- Apr 4 2011: Quote: "Direct democracy, allowing people to vote on issues rather than for politicians is fast becoming a possibility due to the internet."
Direct democracy has been alive long before the Internet was invented. See for yourself in eg. Switzerland where people vote on issues AND representative politicians. As of today April 3., 2011 the youngest politician was voted into the 'Kantonsrat of Appenzell Ausserrhoden'. She is 18 years young.
However, it was farsighted Napoleon who applied direct democracy to Switzerland. In fact Napoleon kind of ordered the Swiss to adopt this form of Democracy.
Nevertheless most governments including the Swiss still have long ways to go in providing open government data.
Sad news is that the US-Governement has just slashed the spending by 35Millions for the e-government fund 2011.
source: http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=35&sid=2327798
sign the petition: http://sunlightfoundation.com/savethedata/
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