Social Strategy Talk: Participation and Open data

This is a post from Lee Bryant that was originally posted on the Headshift blog. He was invited to give a presentation at the Amsterdam Social Strategy Talk, hosted by Creative Crowds and ViNT. Lee and Tom Steinberg (mySociety) were the closing speakers, talking about the issue of public participation and open data in relation to government innovation. The talk was a very simple introduction to why this topic matters, plus a consideration of some recent critiques of transparency initiatives, decorated by a lovely data visualisation of world population growth from the G-Econ project.