Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide | Video on TED.com

Open Data Here in 5 minutes is how the internet is changing the way the world works. How single human beings scattered the world over are hearing and helping each other.

Tim Berners-Lee is the chap who invented HTML - the code that transformed the internet from text to it's modern multimedia format. A year ago he called for an open sharing of data. Here is his report of what has happened. The process he describes happening in mapping in Haiti right now is simply stunning.