Posts Tagged ‘Gov 2.0’

Gov 2.0 Radio Interview: The Future of Privacy

Thursday, March 18th, 2010 by Jo Deeker

Don McIntosh was recently a guest on Gov 2.0 Radio discussing the future of Privacy and how it relates to data.

Said Don:
“Many people, especially Gen Y, have the view that privacy is not an issue for them and to quote Eric Schmidt, ‘If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.’ I much prefer the view of Bruce Schneier, who is pretty much the world’s leading expert in information security, who points out in an excellent essay very clearly that people espousing that view ‘… accept the premise that privacy is about hiding a wrong. It’s not. Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.’”

Click here to listen to the podcast.

Introducing SuperVIEW Collaboration

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 by Jo Deeker

SuperVIEW is our solution for Interactive Publication, Exploration & Visualization of Public Data. Our latest version has a new collaboration feature that we want to share with you.

Using our new SuperVIEW Collaboration features, you can make comments or invite others to make comments on your visualizations using Google Friend Connect.  You can also share your customized visualisation with others using our new Share feature. The Share feature allows you to embed a link to your view in a website, blog, Facebook, Twitter or your other favorite social networking application.

Recently Craig Thomler, a well-known active participant and leader in the Australian Gov2.0 movement, wrote a blog post on the new data.gov.uk site which he considers is the world leader in open data websites.  He then goes on to make a wishlist of what we could do in Australia to the data.australia.gov.au site to make it the best in the world.  Some of what he is asking is for is delivered by SuperVIEW right now including the ability for people to embed visualizations into their own sites, and to allow every set of data to support a discussion to allow people to ask questions to clarify what the dataset contains and discuss how it could be presented in a more usable way.

View this video to see SuperVIEW Collaboration in action.

If you have any questions about SuperVIEW please contact  jo.deeker@spacetimeresearch.com