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When open data and data activism meet: An analysis of civic participation in Cape Town, South Africa
The Canadian Geographer ( IF 1.482 ) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 , DOI: 10.1111/cag.12608
Britta Ricker 1 , Jonathan Cinnamon 2 , Yonn Dierwechter 3
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Municipal open data projects are motivated by a desire to democratize data access and knowledge production, strengthen transparency, and advance cities socially and economically. However, their effects and implications are insufficiently analyzed. This paper examines civic engagement in open data in Cape Town, South Africa, the continent's first municipal‐level open data initiative. Findings reveal how local civil society organizations have been driving engagement with municipal open data as part of their recent turn towards technology and data‐driven forms of public engagement and activism. This analysis highlights the important role of the “smart civil society organization”—occupying a position between the smart city and smart citizen—that is developing significant capacity to produce and share data about the city's informal settlements with stakeholders in government, the private sector, and wider society. Minimal engagement with or recognition of civil society efforts illustrates the limits to the city's philosophy of data openness, which is largely restricted to releasing selected government datasets to the public. The notion of “bi‐directional open data” is developed here to characterize emerging possibilities for data openness between governments and the public. This may be particularly relevant for cities like Cape Town with a highly active, capable, and data‐literate civil society.

中文翻译:

当开放数据和数据行动主义相遇时:南非开普敦的公民参与分析

市政开放数据项目的动机是希望使数据访问和知识生产民主化,增强透明度,并在社会和经济上促进城市发展。但是,它们的影响和含义没有得到足够的分析。本文研究了南非开普敦公民参与开放数据的情况,这是非洲大陆第一个市政级开放数据计划。调查结果揭示了当地民间社会组织如何推动与市政开放数据的接触,这是它们最近转向以技术和数据驱动形式的公众参与和行动主义的一部分。该分析突出显示了“智慧公民社会组织”的重要作用-在智慧城市和智慧公民之间占据一席之地-正在发展产生和共享有关城市数据的显着能力。与政府,私营部门和更广泛的社会中的利益相关者的非正式解决。最小程度地参与或认可公民社会的努力,说明了该城市数据公开哲学的局限性,这在很大程度上限于向公众发布选定的政府数据集。这里开发了“双向开放数据”的概念,以表征政府与公众之间数据开放的新兴可能性。对于像开普敦这样拥有高度活跃,能力强和数据素养的公民社会的城市,这可能尤其重要。这在很大程度上限于向公众发布选定的政府数据集。这里开发了“双向开放数据”的概念,以表征政府与公众之间数据开放的新兴可能性。这对于像开普敦这样拥有高度活跃,能力强和数据素养的公民社会的城市尤其重要 这在很大程度上限于向公众发布选定的政府数据集。这里开发了“双向开放数据”的概念,以表征政府与公众之间数据开放的新兴可能性。这对于像开普敦这样拥有高度活跃,能力强和数据素养的公民社会的城市尤其重要
更新日期:2020-04-01
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