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Article Dans Une Revue ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies Année : 2015

Open Data, Political Crisis and Guerrilla Cartography

Samuel Rufat

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Open data and the geoweb have emerged, along with the rhetoric of democratization and a promise that increased user participation would lead to more empowered citizens. Recently, European rules have attempted to make the availability and re-use of data from everywhere much easier. The EU Open Data rules are shifting issues from finding information to selecting the more relevant data and enabling new approaches to the real-time scrutiny of powerful institutions. However, geography, open data and the Internet are obviously not intrinsically subversive. Moving from transparency to accountability, and from critical thinking to political leverage, requires making sense of data and empowering people with it. This suggests that crowdsourcing geography is not so much about collaboratively distributing the production of data but instead about shifting the production of meaning from the few to the many, soliciting contributions for the critical analysis

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hal-02001705 , version 1 (07-02-2019)

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Samuel Rufat. Open Data, Political Crisis and Guerrilla Cartography. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 2015. ⟨hal-02001705⟩

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