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Digitale Souveränität

- June 29, 2017 in Uncategorized

Am 29. Juni wurde in Berlin das Gutachten „Digitale Souveränität Gutachten des Sachverständigenrats für Verbraucherfragen“ präsentiert. Zusammen mit den Anna Alberts und Arne Semsrott habe ich dafür eine Studie zum Wert persönlicher Daten erstellt. Sie ist zusätzlich zum Beiratsgutachten veröffentlicht worden, ebenso wie eine weitere Studie von Volker Grassmuck, Rüdiger Weis und Stefan Lucks: „Technologien für und wider Digitale Souveränität“. Präsentation jener gibt es hier. Unsere Empfehlungen lauten:
  • Verbraucherzentriertheit stärken
  • Transparenz schaffen und gewährleisten
  • MyData als Standard
  • dezentrale Strukturen
  • Infrastruktur für Datenspenden von VerbraucherInnen.
Zu dem vorgestellten MyData Modell gehört:
  • Das Recht zu wissen, welche persönlichen Informationen vorliegen
  • den tatsächlichen Inhalt der persönlichen Daten zu sehen
  • falsche Daten korrigieren zu können
  • zu prüfen, wer Zugriffe und auf die personenbezogene Daten hat und warum
  • persönliche Daten zu erhalten und sie frei zu verwenden
  • persönliche Informationen an Dritte zu teilen oder verkaufen
  • zu entfernen oder persönliche Daten zu löschen


Weiterführende aktuelle Informationen: Veranstaltungshinweis: 30.08 und 01.09 findet die mydata2017 Konferenz statt Bzgl. Datenspenden für Projekte kommt demnächst hoffentlich ein neues Projekt (u.a. von AlgorithmWatch) Leseempfehlung: Corporate Surveillance in Everyday Life By Wolfie Christl, Cracked Labs, June 2017. Videos: fyi: blog entry work in progress 040717-1600

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Μελέτη περίπτωσης δεδομένων χωρίς τριβές (Frictionless Data): data.world

- June 29, 2017 in Featured, Featured @en, News, ανοικτά δεδομένα, Νέα, πακέτα δεδομένων

από τον Jo Barratt Το Open Knowledge International εργάζεται για το έργο Frictionless Data για την άρση της τριβής κατά την επεξεργασία δεδομένων. Αυτό το κάνουμε αναπτύσσοντας ένα σύνολο εργαλείων, προτύπων και βέλτιστων πρακτικών για τη δημοσίευση δεδομένων. Η καρδιά των δεδομένων χωρίς τριβή είναι το Data Package standard, μια μορφή τυποποίησης για κάθε είδος […]

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Μελέτη περίπτωσης δεδομένων χωρίς τριβές (Frictionless Data): data.world

- June 29, 2017 in Featured, Featured @en, News, ανοικτά δεδομένα, Νέα, πακέτα δεδομένων

από τον Jo Barratt Το Open Knowledge International εργάζεται για το έργο Frictionless Data για την άρση της τριβής κατά την επεξεργασία δεδομένων. Αυτό το κάνουμε αναπτύσσοντας ένα σύνολο εργαλείων, προτύπων και βέλτιστων πρακτικών για τη δημοσίευση δεδομένων. Η καρδιά των δεδομένων χωρίς τριβή είναι το Data Package standard, μια μορφή τυποποίησης για κάθε είδος […]

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Updates from Open Knowledge Portugal

- June 29, 2017 in network, OK Portugal

This blog post is part of our summer series featuring updates from local groups across the Open Knowledge Network and was submitted by Open Knowledge Portugal team. Here is a run-down of our recent activities:

Open Data Day 2017

In March, we joined the international community and organised a local Open Data Day. Unlike the previous two years, we decided to forgo an application to the generous OKI mini-grant scheme since we felt that none of the areas of focus would fit our current practice, and we didn’t want to squander the initiative by shoehorning a subject that we hadn’t developed so far. Instead, we invited speakers from OpenStreetMap Portugal, Wikimedia and the Lisbon City Hall Open Data Initiative to allow us to touch many facets of open culture. The event was divided into two parts: a Mapping Party and a Discussion & Quiz session. The Mapping Party was aimed at OpenStreetMap newbies (most of us!) who wanted to learn how to contribute to the OSM community mapping initiative. The afternoon session was focused on the nitty-gritty of open data, featuring talks from guest such as  Jorge Gustavo Rocha, Jorge Gustavo Rocha [representative from the Lisbon City Council] and André Barbosa [editor and administrator of Wikipedia] and a conversation between speakers and audience. The day ended on a lighter note with a Quiz dedicated to open culture subjects. The event was in our view a great success, having served its main purpose of strengthening the national network around open knowledge and open data and cementing OKI-PT’s role in that field. You can read a machine-translated write-up of the details of the event here; for some reason, the photos are missing from the translated version so you can read the original post here for those fluent in Portuguese.

Other Updates…

As showcased in the Open Data Day post, we also had some interesting developments on our projects; our data-package related project Datacentral was adopted by the folks at Open Knowledge Switzerland for their Open Food initiative. We also launched DadosAbertos.pt, a central location to provide Portuguese-language information about what exactly is open data — a resource that we had been lacking for years. We have also been maintaining Central de Dados, our independent data portal built on Datacentral and the data package standard developed by Open Knowledge Labs, and have been assessing ways to move to a more community-centered management for this resource. We’ve been keeping up as well with our monthly Date With Data meetups, which are dedicated to the collective development of civic tech tools, apps and sites around Portuguese public information and open data. We have also started a new monthly initiative, OKcafé (where the OK naturally stands for Open Knowledge ;-) ) which we intend to build into a meetup which, unlike the Date With Data meetups, is less focused on hands-on development and more about higher-level discussion and exchange between people interested in open data, and who might want to get closer to OKI. We’re hoping to get the interest of people who can help us develop efforts on the side of advocacy and local/national policy related to open data, which is a field that we haven’t had the manpower to develop properly over the recent years. Finally, we took part in a debate, representing Open Knowledge Portugal, about the potential and perils of data mining and machine learning in an initiative promoted by the local Google Developers & Users Group in Porto. Follow OK Portugal’s Twitter page for more information about the team and their projects. For anything specific concerning the team, contact the group leads Ricardo Lafuente and Marta Pinto.

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Updates from Open Knowledge Portugal

- June 29, 2017 in network, OK Portugal

This blog post is part of our summer series featuring updates from local groups across the Open Knowledge Network and was submitted by Open Knowledge Portugal team. Here is a run-down of our recent activities:

Open Data Day 2017

In March, we joined the international community and organised a local Open Data Day. Unlike the previous two years, we decided to forgo an application to the generous OKI mini-grant scheme since we felt that none of the areas of focus would fit our current practice, and we didn’t want to squander the initiative by shoehorning a subject that we hadn’t developed so far. Instead, we invited speakers from OpenStreetMap Portugal, Wikimedia and the Lisbon City Hall Open Data Initiative to allow us to touch many facets of open culture. The event was divided into two parts: a Mapping Party and a Discussion & Quiz session. The Mapping Party was aimed at OpenStreetMap newbies (most of us!) who wanted to learn how to contribute to the OSM community mapping initiative. The afternoon session was focused on the nitty-gritty of open data, featuring talks from guest such as  Jorge Gustavo Rocha, Jorge Gustavo Rocha [representative from the Lisbon City Council] and André Barbosa [editor and administrator of Wikipedia] and a conversation between speakers and audience. The day ended on a lighter note with a Quiz dedicated to open culture subjects. The event was in our view a great success, having served its main purpose of strengthening the national network around open knowledge and open data and cementing OKI-PT’s role in that field. You can read a machine-translated write-up of the details of the event here; for some reason, the photos are missing from the translated version so you can read the original post here for those fluent in Portuguese.

Other Updates…

As showcased in the Open Data Day post, we also had some interesting developments on our projects; our data-package related project Datacentral was adopted by the folks at Open Knowledge Switzerland for their Open Food initiative. We also launched DadosAbertos.pt, a central location to provide Portuguese-language information about what exactly is open data — a resource that we had been lacking for years. We have also been maintaining Central de Dados, our independent data portal built on Datacentral and the data package standard developed by Open Knowledge Labs, and have been assessing ways to move to a more community-centered management for this resource. We’ve been keeping up as well with our monthly Date With Data meetups, which are dedicated to the collective development of civic tech tools, apps and sites around Portuguese public information and open data. We have also started a new monthly initiative, OKcafé (where the OK naturally stands for Open Knowledge ;-) ) which we intend to build into a meetup which, unlike the Date With Data meetups, is less focused on hands-on development and more about higher-level discussion and exchange between people interested in open data, and who might want to get closer to OKI. We’re hoping to get the interest of people who can help us develop efforts on the side of advocacy and local/national policy related to open data, which is a field that we haven’t had the manpower to develop properly over the recent years. Finally, we took part in a debate, representing Open Knowledge Portugal, about the potential and perils of data mining and machine learning in an initiative promoted by the local Google Developers & Users Group in Porto. Follow OK Portugal’s Twitter page for more information about the team and their projects. For anything specific concerning the team, contact the group leads Ricardo Lafuente and Marta Pinto.

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The Long, Forgotten Walk of David Ingram

- June 28, 2017 in american indians, colonialisation, colonialism, Culture & History, david ingram, exploration, first person to cross america, john dee, john hawkins, native americans, privateers, Richard Hakluyt

If three shipwrecked English sailors really did travel by foot from Florida to Newfoundland in 1569 then it would certainly count as one of the most remarkable walks undertaken in recorded history. Although the account's more fantastical elements, such as the sighting of elephants, have spurred many to consign it to the fiction department, John Toohey argues for a second look.

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ROUTETOPA User Stories

- June 28, 2017 in Route to PA

ROUTETOPA is a European innovation project aimed at improving citizen engagement by enabling meaningful interaction between open data users, open data publishers and open data. Open Knowledge International is one of 12 partners working on the project and our main mandate is to build genuine and active communities around the ROUTETOPA tools. In this blogpost, we share more information on the ROUTETOPA user stories. ROUTETOPA is an acronym that stands for Raising Open and User-friendly, Transparency Enabling Technologies for Public Administrations. It is a three-year, multidisciplinary,  European Union Horizon 2020 innovation project aimed at improving citizen engagement by enabling meaningful interaction between open data users, open data publishers and open data. ROUTETOPA’s seeks to do this in 4 ways:
  1. Through the Social Platform for Open Data (SPOD) which seeks to enable social interactions between open data users and local Governments
  2. Through the Transparency Enabling Toolset (TET), built on CKAN and conglomerating data from existing local government open data platforms
  3. Through SIM, which seeks to provide Public Administrations with statistical analysis on user behaviour and generalized feedback from users on SPOD and TET so public administrations can understand what citizens are interested in
  4. Through GUIDE, a set of recommendations for open data publishers, extrapolated from SIM, aimed at promoting higher transparency levels through open data
Open Knowledge International works on building genuine and active communities around the ROUTETOPA tools. One of the key ways we intend to do this is by finding meaningful ways for communities to interact with data and with each other on the ROUTETOPA platforms. We have now defined the following user stories:

USER STORIES

Open Data Enthusiasts

  1. I am a citizen interested in knowing what ROUTETOPA is and why I and others should care
  2. I am a citizen wondering what open data is and how transparency benefits me
  3. I am a resident in City X interested in knowing what data exists for my city.
  4. I am a resident in city X interested in tracking an ongoing project in my area.
  5. I am a graduate/post-graduate student interested in using open data for my research/ thesis/ paper
  6. I am a teacher / lecturer /professor looking to introduce / teach my class about open data
  7. I am a journalist looking to tell a data story on a City X
  8. I am a journalist looking to write an article about H2020 and the ROUTETOPA project as a beneficiary
  9. I am a media house representative looking for know more about ROUTETOPA tools
  10. I am a policy maker interested in learning how ROUTETOPA tools work so I can see if it makes sense for my local authority to take up the use of these tools.
  11. I am an activist interested in discussing issues in the community I live in with my local authority
  12. I am a business owner interested in opportunities for business with public administrations
  13. I am a data scientist looking for big, quality data from Area X for use in my work
  14. I am a developer interested in the underlying code for ROUTETOPA tools
  15. I am a developer with additional feature suggestions for ROUTETOPA tools
  16. I am a designer with UI/UX suggestions for the ROUTETOPA platform
  17. I am a non-EU open data user wondering whether I should interest myself in ROUTETOPA
  18. I am a non-EU open data user interested in replicating ROUTETOPA tools for my continent
  19. I am part of an open data community lead looking to discuss open data topics with my community

Open data publishers

  1. I am a public official wondering what ROUTETOPA is and why I should care / be involved
  2. I am a public official looking to get citizen feedback on the data our local authority has opened up
  3. I am a public administrator keen on answering questions the community has raised regarding the data my administration has published and for which I am responsible
  4. I am a public administrator looking at solutions that other public administrations have employed in publishing open data to determine what suits us best
  5. I am a public administrator keen on involving citizens in Area X in decision making that affects our community
  6. I am a public administrator and I’m new to open data and would like to get an introduction to this form of open government
  7. I am a public administrator instructed to find open data cases in other municipalities that are easy to duplicate  (low hanging fruits cases)
  8. I am a public administrator and I would like to implement a long term open government data strategy in my municipality. And I need an action plan
  9. I am a public administrator looking for easy ways to update citizens about the open government data project and progress
  10. I am a public administrator who maintains an open data platform based on CKAN and is looking for economical and easy extensions that add value to our open government data program
  11. I am a public official who is looking for ways to update and communicate with involved colleagues from other units of my administration
More information on the project and its outcomes is available from http://routetopa.eu.

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Roboter, Comics, Prototypen – Das erste FamilienLabor im FEZ-Berlin startet am 16. Juli

- June 28, 2017 in Uncategorized

Was hilft Familien dabei, ihren Alltag besser zu organisieren? Wie lassen sich Familie und Beruf besser vereinbaren? Und welche technologischen Werkzeuge können uns hierbei helfen? Um diese und andere Fragen geht es beim ersten FamilienLabor Deutschlands. Familienmitglieder und Technologieexpertinnen und -experten können dabei gemeinsam einen Tag lang praktische Lösungen für den konkreten Familienalltag entwickeln. Eine Wartezimmer-App? Ein Pizzabutton? In Form von verrückten Workshopformaten mit Comics, Mini-Robotern, Klick/Papierprototypen und Fotolovestories wird alles möglich! Das FamilienLabor richtet sich an Eltern, Kinder, Jugendliche und ihre Großeltern und findet zum ersten Mal am 16. Juli im FEZ-Berlin statt. Es gibt Platz für 40 Teilnehmende von 8 bis 100 Jahren - Für Verpflegung ist gesorgt und auch die unter 8 Jährigen können im betreuten Spielen aktiv werden. Die kostenlose Anmeldung ist ab sofort möglich. Das gemeinnützige Workshopformat ist in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Bundesministerium für Familien, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend dem Design Research Lab entstanden und wird im Anschluss frei verfügbar sein. Mehr Infos unter familienlabore.de

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The Hawaiian Quintette (1913)

- June 27, 2017 in hawaii, hawaiian music, hawaiian quintette, ukulele

Selection of tracks recorded by the Hawaiian Quintette for Victor in 1913, series of recordings which went a long way toward establishing Hawaiian music as a significant genre on mainland US.

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The Hawaiian Quintette (1913)

- June 27, 2017 in hawaii, hawaiian music, hawaiian quintette, ukulele

Selection of tracks recorded by the Hawaiian Quintette for Victor in 1913, series of recordings which went a long way toward establishing Hawaiian music as a significant genre on mainland US.

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