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Democratizing Our Data

Julia , Lane

Democratizing Our Data
Democratizing Our Data

Democratizing Our Data

Julia , Lane

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Description

A wake-up call for America to create a new framework for democratizing data.

Public data are foundational to our democratic system. People need consistently high-quality information from trustworthy sources. In the new economy, wealth is generated by access to data; government's job is to democratize the data playing field. Yet data produced by the American government are getting worse and costing more. In Democratizing Our Data, Julia Lane argues that good data are essential for democracy. Her book is a wake-up call to America to fix its broken public data system.

Lane argues that we must rethink ways to democratize data; there are successful models to follow and new legislation that can help effect change. The private sector's data revolution—which creates new types of data and new measurements to build machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms—can be mirrored by a public sector data revolution characterized by attention to counting all who should be counted, measuring what should be measured, and protecting privacy and confidentiality. Just as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook have led the world in the use of data for profit, the United States can show the world how to produce data for the public good.

Lane calls for a more automated, transparent, and accountable framework for creating high-quality public data that would empower citizens and inspire the workforce that serves them. And she outlines an organizational model that has the potential to make data more accessible and useful. As she says, failure to act threatens our democracy.



Julia Lane

Specifications

  • Publisher
    MIT Press Ltd
  • Pub date
    Sep 2020
  • Pages
    192
  • Theme
    Technology: general issues
  • Dimensions
    228 x 151 x 22 mm
  • Weight
    411 gram
  • EAN
    9780262044325
  • Hardback / bound
    Hardback / bound
  • Language
    English

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