[okfn-discuss] new brand, new website: coming up next week

Thu Apr 17 18:00:58 UTC 2014

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> On 15 April 2014 10:34, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>>
[snip]

>
>> Moving away from the tagline for a moment, what are your thoughts on the
> longer form summary:
>
> <quote>
> A world where knowledge creates power for the many, not the few.
> A world where data frees us — to make informed choices about how we live,
> what we buy and who gets our vote.
> A world where information and insights are accessible — and apparent — to
> everyone.
> This is the world we choose.
> </quote>
>
> I’m concerned at the moment that the tagline is over-dominating the
> analysis and given its (necessary) brevity may be over-interpreted, so I’m
> really keen to get your take on the longer form summary. What do you think?
>
>
This is more balanced. What needs to be added is that we build the tools of
liberation. Many of those are data tools but we also have protocols - like
Panton which although *about* data are more complex than data itself. And
it is very important to emphasize that we work as a community and we build
communities and the tools to build communities.

> We have not, and I hope we never will, turn into a data organisation. So
>> please can we go back to knowledge?
>>
>
> Let me emphasize that we most definitely have not changed from being a
> “knowledge” organisation :-) We are, after all, “Open Knowledge”
>
> Rufus
>
>  P

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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
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