Data for the common good

DATA FOR THE COMMON GOOD

Towards a critical and participatory culture

Citizens today have a fundamental role to play in determining what kind of data society we will live in. They can resign themselves to being passive consumers and merchandise in the hands of those who exploit their information, or exercise their right to access the data that belongs to everyone and use it.

Thousands of administrations worldwide have promoted open data policies to improve their levels of transparency and encourage citizen innovation, with varying degrees of success.

Furthermore, today the public is producing its own data. Different collaborative platforms make new forms of science possible, and allow us to be participants in collective experiments.

24/01/2004

OpenStreetMap | Eric Fischer

Openstreetmap is one of the most successful examples of a data infrastructure ...
24/01/2014

¿Dónde van mis impuestos? (Where do my taxes go?) | Fundación Civio

This is a general free-access tool that allows users to visualise how much mon...
30/06/2009

Balloon Mapping Kit | The Public Laboratory

Public Lab is a non-profit community that develops open code tools and applies...
04/09/2008

ItoWorld

ITO World is a transport information company that provides mapping servic- es ...
04/01/2014

El indultómetro | Juan Elosua, David Cabo and Eva Belmonte from Civio

With the aim of helping to achieve an informed society as a basis for active c...
11/03/2011

Safecast | Safecast.org

After the tsunami of 2011 and the subsequent nuclear problem at Fukushima Daii...
04/12/2013

_BIG BANG DATA

_BIG BANG DATA is an exhibition about the ‘datafication’ of the world curate...
04/07/2012

Smart Citizen Kit | Institut d’Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya

The Smart Citizen Kit is an electronic plaque based on Arduino, with sensors f...
17/02/2013

OpenStreetMap: A Year of Edits | ITO World

Like in the las few years, OpenStreetMap analysed all the edits and produced a...