Open Data & The Rewards Of Failure
What does Open Data have to do with failure? It change the incentives from big, slow, deniable failures to small, fast failures from which you (and other people) can learn.
I’d been asked to give a ‘philosophical’ presentation about Open Data to the FutureEverything festival in Manchester as part of yesterday’s Challenges & Rewards of Open Data session.
Open Data & The Rewards Of Failure is the result. I’m not sure if it’s philosophical; I hope it’s entertaining and thought-provoking (many of the attendees told me it was); and more than that, I hope it’s another drop of water that starts to erode the existing processes and structures and allows new ones to flourish.
It’s embedded below (hopefully), and is licensed under a CC BY-SA licence, so feel free to forward, download, distribute, and comment.
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