Open Data – 2014 Digital 21 Strategy – Public Consultation
The first being that HKG needs to create a 'culture of open’. This is perhaps a slightly strange term, but it truly embodies the intent that governments the world over should have.
The first being that HKG needs to create a 'culture of open’. This is perhaps a slightly strange term, but it truly embodies the intent that governments the world over should have.
Each time we visit a website, even a new website, we bang our heads against the sheer idiocy of the experience.
I must be getting old. I've been corresponding with a few people through Facebook's messages and I'm finding the experience a little disheartening.
I've been asked this question a lot lately. And recently, a journalist asked me this during an interview for a story on his problem getting data on noise pollution from the Hong Kong Government. Christopher DeWolfe quoted me in the article, Hong Kong's Silence on Noise Pollution.
The idea could be summed up as: don't build a website. Do everything in your power to not focus on the structure of your information.
I am offering a new course, Information Architecture for Effective Outreach and Communications at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) at the University of Hong Kong.
As a consultant at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JSMC) at HKU, I've been able to see some of the interesting work being done with Open Data here in Hong Kong.
I attended a presentation today by Irene Jay Liu, news editor for Thomson Reuters and project leader and editor for ConnectedChina. It was a great demonstration of the app, especially since there is so much to see in the app. It is difficult to understand all its potential unless you see someone using it or you spend a lot of time with it.
Information Architecture is both a familiar and foreign concept to me. As a web developer, I followed lots of tips on how to structure information in a way to make it more useful. Being the kind of person who likes both systems and structure, its principles appealed to me immediately.
I watched Lawrence Lessig's recent TED talk, in which he makes the argument about the corruption in the United States. I enjoyed it, because I love the ideas in the book. I'm not quite finished, but close. But the TED talk I found a little odd. Specifically, his introduction of this analogous place called Lesterland