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Friday lunchtime lectures: Will open data give citizens super powers?

Dates 24 May 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
Where The Open Data Institute
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Friday lunchtime lectures at the Open Data Institute.

You bring your lunch, we provide tea & coffee, an interesting talk, and enough time to get back to your desk.  

For our 24th May lecture... Will open data give citizens super powers?

Sometimes it sounds like open data will give us all super powers. Do the forces of transparency & accountability rank alongside invulnerability & X-ray vision? Or are there other, more day-to-day capacities that citizens need before they can unlock the potential of open data to change the world?"

Dan McQuillan, co-founder of Social Innovation Camp and lecturer in Creative & Social Computing at Goldsmith's, will explore these issues and more.

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Friday lunchtime lectures: Why data geeks don't make decisions

Dates 7 Jun 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
Where Open Data Institute
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Friday lunchtime lectures at the Open Data Institute.

You bring your lunch, we provide tea & coffee, an interesting talk, and enough time to get back to your desk.  

For our 7 June lecture... Why data geeks don't make decisions: bridging the gap between information and influencers

Open data might be fuel, but fuel on its own doesn't get you anywhere. To improve public services you need to translate the raw data material into whatever helps people solve their problems. So, how do we bridge the gap from open data geeks to decision-makers?

Tom Smith, founder and director of OCSI, helps public sector organisations use information effectively for policy and decision-making. He will bring in real world lessons of using open data to improve decisions, and more.

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Friday lunchtime lectures: Can open data help unleash open government?

Dates 21 Jun 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
Where Open Data Institute
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Friday lunchtime lectures at the Open Data Institute.

You bring your lunch, we provide tea & coffee, an interesting talk, and enough time to get back to your desk.  


For our 21 June lecture... Can open data help unleash a global movement for open government?

Thousands of people worldwide devote their lives to the somewhat obscure cause of 'open government', but so far they remain in the 'geek box', unable to break out into the mainstream and become a massive global movement on the scale of the environmental, human rights and other epoch-defining movements.

Does open data lend itself better to global efforts? Can it bring open government into our everyday lives? Can data not only help us find better commuting routes but also decrease corruption and 'follow the money'? Or is it all just 'open-washing'?

Martin Tisné of Omidyar Network will take us through some of these questions and ask whether we can genuinely drive social change via open data.

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Friday lunchtime lectures: Data as the Divine

Dates 5 Jul 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
Where Open Data Insitute
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Friday lunchtime lectures at the Open Data Institute.

You bring your lunch, we provide tea & coffee, an interesting talk, and enough time to get back to your desk.  


For our 5 July lecture... Data as the Divine

In the age of machine readable data a kind of omniscience is possible for the first time in history. We can know all things at all times and this knowledge is even being used to make predictions not just for the destiny of individuals but for society itself.  

Technology is often compared to magic but the divine is increasingly become the more apt description. Justice, the crunching of souls, predestination. Writer and journalist Patrick Hussey asks; do we want to be judged by machines? 

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