[foundation-board] Wikileaks blog post?

Wed Dec 8 17:14:55 UTC 2010

Thanks Becky. Okay. Agreed. Lets not do anything (yet).

A few links:

News:
http://blog.zeit.de/politik-nach-zahlen/2010/12/01/wikileaks-und-offene-daten-%E2%80%93-zwei-seiten-einer-medaille_2686
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-12-08-taking-the-wiki-out-of-state-secrecy
http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2010/12/the-limits-to-openness/index.htm

Blogs:
http://www.csedev.com/wikileaks-endangers-open-data/
http://anthonydwilliams.com/2010/11/29/could-wikileaks-set-back-open-government/
http://eaves.ca/2010/12/02/wikileaks-and-the-coming-conflict-between-closed-and-open/
http://govinthelab.com/wikileaks-is-a-blow-to-open-government/
http://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2010/informationsfreiheit-im-netz

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Becky Hogge <becky.hogge at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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