Government 1.5: The Dark Side of Open Data
summary
Open data in government produces plenty of aspiration but few practical gains: a private company sues New York City Transit and files hundreds of FOIA requests because Google Transit holds detailed feeds that are not publicly released; the FTA requires only system-level reporting so station-by-station ridership never appears; the FBI’s UCR sits in a West Virginia facility with a billion-dollar budget yet only provides aggregated crime rates instead of incident-level dots; data.gov and FOIA.gov mostly redirect or publish backlogs while weather and GPS data remain the rare usable wins.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Government 1.5 and open data
- 1:49Mass transit data access
- 3:55Crime data flaws
- 6:00FOIA history and limits
- 7:25Open govt impact lacking
- 8:30Weather and mapping wins
- 9:33FOIA and data.gov fixes
- 10:15Open data economics critique
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