First of all, big thanks for all the feedback! I'm still searching open data documentaries, but below is a summarized list of the content I've found (films I was suggested here, films I was suggested by others, and films I already knew about) so far:
******************************* *** Intellectual Property *** ******************************* Documentaries (I actually arrived at Open Data via investigating the Intellectual Property topic, so I had this list already): - Good Copy Bad Copy (http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/) - Steal This Film 1 & 2 (http://www.stealthisfilm.com) - Rip It: A Remix Manifesto (http://ripremix.com/) *********************************** *** Open Data (and related) *** *********************************** Projects & Short Videos: - Open Government Partnership ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq_ZWl1ZXA0&feature=player_embedded) - Open Government Data (http://opengovernmentdata.org/) - TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2012: Government Innovation ( http://techcrunch.com/events/disrupt-ny-2012/sound-bites/?snapid=31018) - RFID F2F Project: food traceability ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmvHohm3SYA) - Fields of Gold: Lifting the Veil on Europe's Farm Subsidies ( http://farmsubsidy.org/) - Journalism in the age of data (http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/) - Or... just search for "OPEN DATA" on www.ted.com Documentaries: - My Identity is Open (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zP__vc_68I) - Us Now (http://watch.usnowfilm.com/) - All watched over by machines of loving grace - 3 part TV mini-series ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011lvb9/episodes/guide) Other Resources: - Andrew Mackenzie's (@DJSoup) Blog (http://take21.org/blog/?page_id=1787 ) Best Regards, Alex On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Kat Braybrooke <[email protected]>wrote: > A big +1 to Becky and David's suggestions of "Us Now" - really great film > re: community-sourced collaborative projects. > > Also, "Rip It: A Remix Manifesto"[1] is at least tangentially related > (focused on copyright laws around mashup medias, and existing public > campaigns for the open redistribution of cultural archives) and is > available online for free. In a similar vein, "Steal This Film" is a (quite > biased, yet still interesting) discussion about the "battles between old > and new forms of distribution" and re-use, especially in the case of the > Pirate Bay [2]. > > Lastly, a shorter film making a case for "Open Data in Transit" by some > folks from OpenPlans in the US [3]. > > Hope this helps! > > Kat > > [1] http://ripremix.com/ > [2] http://www.stealthisfilm.com/Part2/ > [3] http://www.streetfilms.org/a-case-for-open-data-in-transit/ > > | Kat Braybrooke | Community Coordinator > | Local Chapters and OKFestival > | Open Knowledge Foundation | London > | OKFN.org <http://okfn.org/> | Twitter > @kat_braybrooke<http://twitter.com/kat_braybrooke> > > > > > > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:57 AM, david osimo <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 2 things: >> - Us Now, the movie http://watch.usnowfilm.com/ >> - Open Gov Partnership video >> http://daa.ec.europa.eu/inspiring_videos/display/24770 >> best >> david >> * >> *[email protected] >> skype, twitter: osimod >> http://egov20.wordpress.com >> mobile: +32-498088323 >> *-> based in Hub Brussels - most inspirational place to work ( >> www.the-hub.be)* >> >> On 30 May 2012, at 10:47, Javier Creus wrote: >> >> hello, >> >> only thing I can think about is a short 6 minute video included in >> http://farmsubsidy.org/ >> >> an open data journalism project about subsidies to agriculture in the ue >> >> thanks, >> >> >> javier >> >> 2012/5/29 Alex Averbuch <[email protected]> >> >>> Hi, >>> I'm a member of the Stockholm Cinema Politica group ( >>> http://www.cinemapolitica.org/stockholm) - we organize free screenings >>> of independent political films to the student body of Stockholm University, >>> as well as the greater Stockholm community. >>> For an upcoming screening we'd like to show a documentary about "Open >>> (transparent) Government", or "Open Data" in general, but we haven't been >>> able to find anything yet. >>> >>> Can anyone recommend any documentaries that address these topics? >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> Alex >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> okfn-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> www.IdeasforChange.com >> www.NoSomosHormigas.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> okfn-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> okfn-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > >
_______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
