[open-government] new info

Fri Sep 13 14:57:06 UTC 2013

>ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION deadline >>>> September 30, 
>2013 24:00 GMT. 
><https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2014/cfp.cgi>https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2014/cfp.cgi
>
>next year the ISA, 13-19 July, Yokohama 
>[<http://www.isa-sociology.org/>http://www.isa-sociology.org] 
>will celebrate the XVIII World Congress of 
>Sociology. 
><http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/>http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/
>
>Open Systems, Open Data, Open Government
>Session Organizer
>Chaime MARCUELLO SERVOS, Universidad de 
>Zaragoza, Spain, 
><mailto:chaime at unizar.es>chaime at unizar.es
>
>This session attempts to explore, from a 
>sociocybernetical approach, some of the effects 
>of the open data movement, specially, its 
>consequences in the idea of open government and 
>open knowledge. Open data and open government 
>could be analyzed in an independent way, however 
>they are closely related to Information and 
>Technologies of Communication (ICTs). In fact, 
>both ideas will be more difficult to develop 
>without computers and Internet.
>
>There are different social organizations, firms 
>and political actors promoting and lobbying 
>around the idea of open data, open government 
>and open knowledge in different countries. They 
>are building architecture of definitions, 
>processes and gadgets. At first glance, they 
>have in common a shared utopia where technology 
>seems to be the door to freedom and transparency 
>and better democracy desired horizon.
>
>In this session we will discuss the impact of 
>ICTs and their effects in democratic systems. 
>There is happening a strange coincidence in the 
>political sphere: governments of very opposite 
>ideologies are creating laws about transparency 
>and opening up their data to the public and 
>others developers and everybody connected to the 
>web. At the same time, there are different 
>organizations in a global civil society 
>perspective lobbying in similar world of words, 
>for instance, Open Data Foundation (ODaF), The 
>Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN), The Open 
>Government Partnership inter alia.
>
>We could define a triangle of forces and 
>notions. First corner is the supposedly aseptic 
>and neutral technological evolution and its 
>applications. Second corner are political 
>promises with varying degrees of ideological 
>scenarios, including the social movements 
>pushing to reach different utopias (therefore, 
>no-where, unreachable). Third corner are the 
>processes of social knowledge construction and 
>social interaction. All of them are involved in 
>a system of structures and elements were 
>complexity of operations limit the choices of 
>its actors. It is not clear that this "openness" 
>enables a better and transparent circulation of 
>information of any entity, and also it is 
>unclear that transparency, openness and 
>disclosure promote a better society without 
>more, as if by magic.
>
>In any case, ICTs evolution is modelling a new 
>social and political scenario. Digital 
>generations are moving our societies to a 
>soft(ware) societies and the possibilities of 
>accessing and building a global system based in 
>global metadata standards is available. 
>Technologists, scientists, business people, 
>policymakers, social activist seems to converge 
>in a same place where technology and 
>transparency define a new "open future". It 
>seems to get a new good news, a vision: humans 
>of over the world could live in a better world 
>if ICTs and related tools allow to
>
>1.	Discover the existence of data;
>2.	Access the data for research and analysis;
>3.	Find detailed information describing the 
>data and its production processes;
>4.	Access the data sources and collection 
>instruments from which and with which the data 
>was collected, compiled, and aggregated;
>5.	Effectively communicate with the agencies 
>involved in the production, storage, 
>distribution of the data;
>6.	Share knowledge with other users".
>
>However, applied technology is not simple and sure guarantee of that happens.
>
>Papers selected will be presented and discussed 
>during the session. The total time of 105 
>minutes will be equally distributed among the 
>selected papers.
>
>read more at: 
><http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/rc/rc.php?n=RC51>http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/rc/rc.php?n=RC51
>
>please feel free to disseminate this CfP!
>
>best

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Chaime Marcuello Servós
E.U. Estudios Sociales
Universidad de Zaragoza
Violante de Hungría,23
50009-Zaragoza
España


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