Background

Injury

Pedestrian Motor Collisions in Tacoma

January 2014-Sept. 2015 

PhD Research

Electronic Trauma Health Record

Other places and people to collect data

Next Steps

Mobile Data Collection

Office of Global Affairs

Strategic International Partnership Travel Award

mobile injury data collection

Training community memebers

Property Rights

Human Rights

Human Rights

Safe Node on the Map

Oh wait...

Open Data

Open Data

The open data movement – the story goes – could variably democratize data access and knowledge production, unite cities and citizens, encourage transparent governance, strengthen democracy, and advance cities socially and economically (see European Commission, 2014; Sieber & Johnson, 2015; Zuiderwijk & Janssen, 2014).

 

Grand proclamations have been met by a burgeoning critique however, which for example has identified its limited inroads outside of the wealthy cities of the Global North, co-optation by hackers and corporations (Kitchin, 2014), reinforcement of power relations (Gurstein, 2011), as well as concerns about neoliberal logics (Bates, 2012) and threats to social justice (Johnson, 2014). 

Open Data

Tacoma

Cape Town

World Design Capital

2014

Driver of Open Data in Cape Town

Code4SouthAfrica

http://code4sa.org/

Hacking is a dirty word

 

inclusive

 

...data journalism

 

...living wage

Projects

University of Cape Town (UCT)

Dept of Geomatics

Dept of Geomatics

African Center for Cities

http://www.africancentreforcities.net/

Summary

 "Ideas are not truths waiting to be discovered but social experiments whose veracity is judged by their effects"(Smith, 2009, p. 421)

Challenge you

to find Easter Eggs

in Open Data

Thank You

Dr. Yonn Dierwechter

Dr. Ali Modarres

Chief Jim Duggan

Dr. Jon Cinnamon

Everyone mentioned in these slides regarding Cape Town!

and

Office of Global Affairs

Strategic International Partnership Travel Award