OKCon 2011 July 22, 2011
I'm just catching up with [OKCon 2011] Dr. Michael Gurstein - Open Data – Louder Voices?
I'm a fan of Mike Gurstein and had heard that his OKCon 2011 talk had ruffled a few feathers, so I was expecting something pretty controversial. He was banging the drum on behalf of users and reality - but to my surprise it was at a fairly basic level - along the lines of "Who are you doing this for?" .. "What is their real-world situation regarding ICT?"... "Will they be have access to it?"...... "Will what you are doing be useful to them?"
The good news is that Mike Gurstein is continuing to challenge those techies who are too focussed on "the pretty apps" and not thinking about wider aspects of use in the real world. The bad news is that he should still need to do so.
(I got the link via the message below)
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From: Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich@okfn.org>
Date: 22 July 2011 13:03
Subject: [okfn-announce] OKCon 2011 videos released
To: Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list <okfn-discuss@lists.okfn.org>
Cc: okfn-announce@lists.okfn.org, OKCon discuss <okcon@lists.okfn.org>
Dear All,
It's my pleasure to announce the first set of OKCon 2011 video documentation:
More videos and interviews will follow next week.
Please also check our post-eevnt documentation page, including Slides, Photos, media coverage:
If you haven any material, like photos, slides, ... please send us links to them. So that we can make things even better next year please do share your thoughts via our feedback form:
http://okcon.org/2011/feedback
Thank you all once again to those who participated!
All the best
Daniel