[open-government] [datameet] Is Open Data a Good Idea for the Open Government Partnership?

Laina Emmanuel laina.emmanuel at gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 05:40:20 UTC 2011


Looking forward to it. And you rightly said, we need to balance between
skepticism and triumphalism.

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Pranesh Prakash <pranesh at cis-india.org>wrote:

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> Thanks, Laina.
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> I think we need to ensure that we do not fall prey to techno-triumphalism
> nor to techno-scepticism. I'm currently writing a note on the centrality of
> the right to information in the open data movement, and am examining the
> role of technology and databases in it too. In that I caution against myopic
> techno-skepticism. I'll post that as soon as I'm done with it.
>
> Cheers,
> Pranesh
>
> Laina Emmanuel <laina.emmanuel at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >Yamini Aiyar was also invited to the 'Power of Open' conference - the
> >opening conference for the Open Government Partnership.
> >She has blogged about similar issues here-
> >http://www.accountabilityindia.in/accountabilityblog/2337-power-open.
> >
> >Regards
> >Laina
>
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