[foundation-board] Wikileaks blog post?

Becky Hogge becky.hogge at gmail.com
Wed Dec 8 14:10:26 UTC 2010


Ok, just read the first few results for "wikileaks open data" on
Google and "wikileaks"+"open data" on Google News. It all seems to
converge around a post from 30 November
http://barryjogorman.com/blog/what-does-wikileaks-mean-for-open-data-initiatives/

It doesn't look too serious to me yet and my feeling is we should sit
this one out for now, and wait to see if things get worse (not much
activity since end of last month, AFAICT). As ever, I'm happy to be
ignored/over-ruled.

You might also like to run your concerns by Kathryn Corrick, who has a
good PR head for these sorts of things.

I'm going offline for the rest of the day, so if I don't respond, I'm
not ignoring you, I promise. I'm available on the mobile if you want
to talk anything over.

Cheers

Becky

On 8 December 2010 13:58, Becky Hogge <becky.hogge at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan
>
> Can you send some links to some of the stuff you're seeing?
>
> Until I see the extent of the damage, I would err on the side of not
> posting, for two reasons:
>
> 1) It might encourage a "me think she doth protest too much" interpretation
> 2) It might necessitate an explicit statement of OKF policy on
> Wikileaks (condemn/defend), which would be difficult
>
> Cheers
>
> Becky
>
> On 8 December 2010 13:39, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Hi board,
>>
>> There's been quite a lot of press about the relation between open data
>> movement and Wikileaks. Do you think we should issue a brief statement
>> about how the two are orthogonal, and about how Wikileaks is *not*
>> open data?
>>
>> The medium term risk is that governments start associating open gov
>> data community with folks behind Wikileaks, and hence pushes open gov
>> data stuff way down the agenda (undoing all the hard work that has
>> been going on to get people excited and encourage governments to think
>> opening up more official information **for others to reuse** is a good
>> idea).
>>
>> I'm now seeing stuff on opendata / Wikileaks nearly every day, and I'm
>> worried that this could be doing some damage, especially as its so
>> high profile and getting *lots* of coverage...
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Gray
>>
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>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
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