在过去十年，开放数据已逐渐从抽象的概念讨论演变为一场全球运动。尽管这一潮流主要起源于西方，并借助民主环境发展，中国也并没有缺席，正尝试着以各种方式发布与使用开放数据。在中国特色的网络文化与政治环境下，开放数据作为一个舶来概念照样落地生根，并能产生积极的影响，尤其体现在三个方面：提高政府行政效率与政府效益，制定数据导向的知情决策，以及促进公民参与、增强公众对政府的信任度。

Some afterthoughts of Reuters Editor-in-Chief’s talk about future of journalism, at Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong on October 15, 2010. He said that it is an age of publishers. It means that old-fashioned journalists can no longer staying in their comfort zone and rejecting the new technology and the […]

One of the major issues will be how to ensure that the money loaned to the poor can be paid back. Yunus’ system in Bangladesh is organizing groups and having the group members meet every week and monitor within themselves. But this model may not be duplicable to China. China is diversified and fragmented in […]