Teaching the public how to analyze complex information
It's not so much using the web technology, but on how to understand complicated issues. The people developing the sites need to be held accountable for not presenting DATA, but rather presenting usable, digestable Information, e.g. graphs, trends, etc., not gigs of random data. The public needs to learn how to pay attention to complex information. Maybe grass roots town meetings to analyze the information. We need ...more »
It's not so much using the web technology, but on how to understand complicated issues.
The people developing the sites need to be held accountable for not presenting DATA, but rather presenting usable, digestable Information, e.g. graphs, trends, etc., not gigs of random data.
The public needs to learn how to pay attention to complex information. Maybe grass roots town meetings to analyze the information.
We need both public and private sector, grass roots initiatives to take the complex issues that we Americans are questioning and help us all learn enough about the underlying issues to make the data meaningful to us so we can personally make better decisions and hold our elected officials accountable when they don't make good decisions.
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