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The battle for data, the battle for design… and the battle for empowerment

Just after posting earlier this morning on data and design, I came across a post from a couple of days ago by Dan McQuillanmaking a very closely related point. His focus is on the point that opening data does not in itself create empowered communities – and by implication, may well relatively disempower those groups [...]

The battle for data, the battle for design

In the heat of battle, sometimes it can be hard to tell that you have won. The battle for government data has been hard fought and bloody. For a long time the outcome was unclear. The battle ebbed and flowed, with clouds of smoke and seas of churned up mud making it hard to see [...]