[wdmmg-discuss] Open Misinformation and the Illusion of Transparency

Tue Jul 19 14:59:51 UTC 2011

* [2011-07-19 23:48:18 +1000] Alex (Maxious) Sadleir <maxious at gmail.com> écrit:

> You've triggered a good point here about open data. That is, you don't
> encourage co-operation between data owners and data users by telling
> the owners (or the public) how much they suck.

Alex, this is a really hard one. It is really very hard to pitch these
kinds of questions right. There generally seems to be a fear that if
we are critical of government then they will not cooperate.  This may
be true but is very unhealthy in a "democracy". 

At the risk of drawing accusations of engaging in conspiracy theories
from Friedrich, I might wonder if the OKF, accepting a significant 
amount of money from the UK and other governments might be averse to
criticism out of worry for their funding. Just a thought, there may or
may not be anything to it. (and just to be extra clear, averse means
discouraging and disapproving and not taking any positive action on
that basis)

-w
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