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Open Data: A threat or saviour for democracy?

This is my presentation to the superb OKCON2011 conference in Berlin last week. It’s obviously openly licensed (CC-BY), so feel free to distribute widely. Comments also welcome.

Written by countculture

July 4, 2011 at 10:30 am

Posted in open data, opencorporates, politics, presentations

Tagged with democracy, finance, gov 2.0, gov2.0, ideas, OKCON, OKCON2011, Open Government, opendata, politics

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