A presentation for the 2012 Open Africa Summit in Zanzibar.

1. Media & Citizen Power
Alex@oreilly.com
@digiphile
radar.oreilly.com/alexh

2. We spread the knowledge of
innovators around the world.

4. Technology publishing

5. Integrated media and conferences

6. Online publishing at Radar

7. Open source software

8. Makers and open source hardware

9. 2012: a networked public sphere

10. Natural
disasters

11. Open Journalism

12. #Sidibouzid

13. #Jan25

16. How did we get here?

17. In the 1990s, governments and civil
society spread the Internet globally

18. In the 2000s, mobile phones and social
networking connected us ever more

19. In the 2010s, big data will change
everything again.

20. Open data enables citizens and media to
be generative in new ways

21. Open Innovation

22. Platforms for citizens to self-organize
Image Credit: ITO World

23. Open Mapping

24. How do you measure success?

26. 230 apps now use or are based on
open health data

28. 100 million iPads sold. Why?

29. Mistake: Focus only on “apps”

30. First Principles
Data platforms, not portals
Web services, not websites
Build open in from the start, as the default
Convene around open standards
Show your work

32. Keeping citizens safe
“Traffic on the NYC Health Department’s
restaurant inspection site has gone from
10,000 hits per month to 124,000”
- New York Times

33. Make data find the people.

34. Data journalists, meet civic hackers
Source: BuzzData

35. “Data-driven journalism is the future”
Source: Tim Berners-Lee in the Guardian

36. “Trendy but not new”-Simon
Rogers, Guardian

37. “We used to call it CAR”-DeBarros
Bob Woodward, via Cliff1066

38. Now it’s “Hacks and Hackers”
Photo by Dennis Crowley, from “Hack to Hacker: Rise of the Journalist-Programmer”

39. Provisioning Data Journalism

40. “Make small things faster, make big things
possible.”-Derek Willis, NYT
TimesMachine.nytimes.com cost a few hundred dollars. Hosted on Amazon EC2.

44. Robo-journalism?

45. Storytelling still matters.
“We use these tools to find and tell stories.
We use them like we use a telephone.
The story is still the thing.”
- Anthony DeBarros
USA Today
Source: Data Journalism and the Big Picture

46. More than 36 interactive databases published
Data sets account for 75% of overall traffic
[Source: CJR]

47. How can we get
smarter?

48. Open by design. Beyond fellows.

49. Build on open standards

50. Listen

51. What does Open Journalism look like?
“A man dies at the heart of a protest: a reporter
wants to discover the truth.
A journalist is seeking to contact anyone who can
explain how another victim died while being
restrained on a plane.
A newsroom has to digest 400,000 official
documents released simultaneously.”
-Alan Rusbridger

52. Go real-time

53. Connect at the
Right Time

54. Make the Web matter

55. Iterative feedback loops

56. Citizen-centric

57. Citizensourcing

58. Citizens as Sensors: Andhra Pradesh

59. Networked accountability

60. Personal data ownership

61. Need: Bridge analog and digital

62. Privacy
challenges

63. Helps citizens who need it most

64. Bridge the
data divide
Digital signage on the cheap

65. Government of the
people, for the
people, by the
people, with the
people.