Data Liberation: Difference between revisions

Once this kind of data is released, we can expect greater participation and new forms of employment through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing crowdsourcing] and other volunteer efforts (for example, making specialized information easier to understand). There are plenty of civic minded hobbyists, experts, and others who would love to understand and work on big problems, and with computers and the Internet any one person or group can achieve so much in their spare time. The trust issues don't really exist, people can learn to not trust a first glance at info just like they have with spam and wikipedia, and networked trust will become a concrete part of our reality. (Of course personal information will be protected, but access to massive correlation alone would make this a breakthrough.)

The government's own (private) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCPEDIA GCPedia] has already been [http://eaves.ca/2009/03/12/how-gcpedia-will-save-the-public-service/ deemed important] in capturing tacit knowledge and helping groups connect, following Wikipedia's model of open organizing. Past that, some things need to be "offloaded" from the government, which is already straining, to [http://www.helparoundthehouse.ca willing participants], the gigantic latent capacity that can solve problems without cost, openly and fairly creating a greater social existence that acknowledges our modern reality. This is a push back to the corporatization and governmentalization of services that people should enjoy spending their time participating in.