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    Nearly 70 years of computers, and most of us still just use them as a fast version of paper. What is code? What is data? Teaching everyone to program, restructuring organisations … artificial intelligence. What will it take to make “data” ten times better? Francis Irving, CEO of ScraperWiki, will take us through examples from working with international agencies and businesses, with a shot of Stafford Beer and a soupçon of PDFs.

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    Burn the digital paper!

    A call to arms
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    1. Amazement

    Burn the digital paper!


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    Government Data
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    2. Digital paper

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    Questions?

    3. Gather up as data

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    Questions?

    4. Feed ac! loops

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