Broad access to fundamental data leads to compelling analysis. Here’s a TED talk from Hans Rosling, where he gives a tour of the recent history of countries becoming industrialized, using visualizations built on data from the UN.
The history of representative democracy and government is waiting to be similarly told; here’s a broad collection of [...]
Tags: OpenHouse · TED · data visualization · government websites · visualizations
Even though that video centers on intellectual property issues, Lessig talks about how his focus came to shift away from hoping Congress would pass rational policy. He remarks that the "economies of influence" that dictate congressional policy are fundamentally corrupt, as a system. That made me reflect that Sunlight’s mission is, [...]
Tags: Congress · OpenHouse · Structured Data · TED · corruption · intellectual property · lessig · web 2.0
The following video is a TED talk by Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase, whose blog I read regularly. He discusses mobile phone research and design in a broader context of international culture. While he doesn’t explicitly discuss politics, the ideas he introduces about the rapid evolution in the ways in which we experience technology [...]
Tags: Jan Chipchase · OpenHouse · TED · nokia
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