Welcome to the Open Data Movement's Turbulent Teenage Years

in the news | January 12, 2015

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Laurenellen McCann:

“Open data has been a space where it’s just public knowledge being digitized and that’s good,” says Laurenellen McCann, a civic innovation fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based Open Tech Institute. “But in terms of how we are disseminating that info and how we’re assuming people are going to interact with it, our current approach is bad.