European Data Summit with Rufus Pollock
"We need to rewrite the rules of the information age because we need a future. A 21st century that is fair, free and innovative. And if we don't rewrite the rules information, if we go on the way we are - in our closed world, a world of exclusive ownership and proprietary rights around information - we will have a world of spiraling inequality, of exclusion, of monopoly, and of a loss of freedom and liberty. Freedom of enterprise, freedom of choice... There's only one Facebook, there's only one Google... And we will also lose our kind of freedom in a more profound sense of our culture of debate, of diversity, and so on. And that's what we have if we don't rewrite the rules information age. If we do, if we write them, to a world of open information, a world in which at the point of use information - that's software, music, movies, statistics, novels, newspapers - are open and free to use, and where we pay innovators and creators more and more fairly using remuneration rights in place of monopoly rights, we will get a world of abundance, and a world of freedom, and a real world that is fair."
Interview with Rufus Pollock by © The Konrad Adenauer Foundation ( / onlinekas ) at the European Data Summit.
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Dr. Rufus Pollock (https://rufuspollock.com) is an entrepreneur, researcher and technologist, and a recognized global expert on open data and open knowledge, passionate and committed to democratizing data and creating an open information age. He is the original creator of CKAN (https://www.datopian.com/ckan). Prior to establishing Datopian (https://www.datopian.com), Rufus founded the award-winning Open Knowledge Foundation - a leading international non-profit that empowers people and organizations with access to information and the tools and skills to make sense of it. He has worked with multiple governments, IGOs such as the World Bank and the UN, businesses and CSOs. He is the author of The Open Revolution: Rewriting the Rules of the Information Age (https://openrevolution.net).
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Datopian (https://www.datopian.com) is a major worldwide data management solutions provider that creates, maintains, and deploys data management technologies for government, enterprise, and the non-profit sector using CKAN, FrictionlessData.io, DataHub.ioand other open-source software.
We built CKAN (https://ckan.org), the world’s leading data portal platform and the world’s first portals for publishing open data such as data.gov and data.gov.uk. We’ve worked for companies and organizations like Google, the World Bank and FedEx, and have successfully deployed dozens of projects for Government, Fortune 500 enterprises and international NGOs.
We’re passionate about data. Passionate about its power to help us understand and shape our organisations and societies. We want to democratise that power by giving more people and organisations access to high quality data and tooling.
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