Criteria D
There are many different solutions to overcome this concern with the use of data mashups that turn citizens into watchdogs. There are many questions in which a person can analyze to test the reliability of the source of the data mashups. A person must first analyze who conducted this study. Usually the information accessed is more accurate if it was conducted by organizations with research experience.
Another important factor to increase the reliability and prevent the spying on politicians is by having interviews and viewing others opinions.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Criteria C
C The Impact of the Issue
Data mashups can be very helpful if used appropriately, but these can also have a negative impact on society. Data mashups are a form of technology that makes it easier for people to acquire information from a single place.
A positive aspect of data mashups is in the field of government and politics is that citizens can watch what their future or current leaders are up to. Politicians are known for being corrupt and dishonest, so if politicians know that their civilians are keeping an eye on them, then this will keep the politicians on their toes. According to a source before data mashups people “have to visit a secretary of states office and sort through the paper records”, but now “the level of access that’s now available to anyone to anyone at the click of a button is just tremendous” (Calore, Michal 2007). Anyone can view these sites to look at a politician’s monetary history and votes.
Since most of the citizens that are monitoring these officials are either bloggers, students, lobbyists or activists they wouldn’t know if the information they are viewing is accurate or not. According to an article it is sometimes hard to for a citizen watchdog to know whether to believe a particular study or not (LaFleur, Jennifer 2007). This is because many politicians have enemies that may post false accusations on data mashups that make it easy for the average citizen to believe. An addition concern is when people bug the privacy o politicians to find more about their officials. In reference to a source 59% of citizen watchdogs use these sites for person and not professional uses (Calore, Michal 2007).
Overall concerns over privacy and reliability have been one of data mashups biggest concerns amongst users and politicians as well because the reliability of the source could jeopardize the future of a politician concerning his career. These problems have solutions that can be implemented in order to avoid this.
Data mashups can be very helpful if used appropriately, but these can also have a negative impact on society. Data mashups are a form of technology that makes it easier for people to acquire information from a single place.
A positive aspect of data mashups is in the field of government and politics is that citizens can watch what their future or current leaders are up to. Politicians are known for being corrupt and dishonest, so if politicians know that their civilians are keeping an eye on them, then this will keep the politicians on their toes. According to a source before data mashups people “have to visit a secretary of states office and sort through the paper records”, but now “the level of access that’s now available to anyone to anyone at the click of a button is just tremendous” (Calore, Michal 2007). Anyone can view these sites to look at a politician’s monetary history and votes.
Since most of the citizens that are monitoring these officials are either bloggers, students, lobbyists or activists they wouldn’t know if the information they are viewing is accurate or not. According to an article it is sometimes hard to for a citizen watchdog to know whether to believe a particular study or not (LaFleur, Jennifer 2007). This is because many politicians have enemies that may post false accusations on data mashups that make it easy for the average citizen to believe. An addition concern is when people bug the privacy o politicians to find more about their officials. In reference to a source 59% of citizen watchdogs use these sites for person and not professional uses (Calore, Michal 2007).
Overall concerns over privacy and reliability have been one of data mashups biggest concerns amongst users and politicians as well because the reliability of the source could jeopardize the future of a politician concerning his career. These problems have solutions that can be implemented in order to avoid this.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Criteria B
Criteria B
The issue of the usage of data mash-ups has incorporates many IT systems such as the World Wide Web using the html code. Basically what the internet is a massive network functioned by impersonal routers, browsers, servers and computer codes. It’s a fundamental tool in many IT systems. (Answers.com).
Data mash-ups combine many data services from various sources into a new virtual data service. Data mash-ups are built using SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) (Wikipedia.com). It allows incremental growth and consumption. Service oriented architecture is a computer system for making business processes. Figure 1 shows the elements of SOA.
[Figure 1]
The trends in data mash-ups and the IT systems are fasten processing. Web services such as data mash-ups can be utilized to enforce service oriented architecture. Creating functional building blacks that ca be accessed over standard internet protocols is on for the main aspects if web services. They can be considered new application or just connecting them to systems to make them network enabled. The concept of SOA is present everywhere. It is an important factor of businesses and can help beneficial to businesses when is used I the right way.
Data mash-ups also use data bases which are a collection of data which depends on software to arrange the data. Data bases have many models to model data structure. These databases are stored in memory in files or hard disks. The below figure shows the icon of database.
[Figure 2]
The issue of the usage of data mash-ups has incorporates many IT systems such as the World Wide Web using the html code. Basically what the internet is a massive network functioned by impersonal routers, browsers, servers and computer codes. It’s a fundamental tool in many IT systems. (Answers.com).
Data mash-ups combine many data services from various sources into a new virtual data service. Data mash-ups are built using SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) (Wikipedia.com). It allows incremental growth and consumption. Service oriented architecture is a computer system for making business processes. Figure 1 shows the elements of SOA.
[Figure 1]
The trends in data mash-ups and the IT systems are fasten processing. Web services such as data mash-ups can be utilized to enforce service oriented architecture. Creating functional building blacks that ca be accessed over standard internet protocols is on for the main aspects if web services. They can be considered new application or just connecting them to systems to make them network enabled. The concept of SOA is present everywhere. It is an important factor of businesses and can help beneficial to businesses when is used I the right way.
Data mash-ups also use data bases which are a collection of data which depends on software to arrange the data. Data bases have many models to model data structure. These databases are stored in memory in files or hard disks. The below figure shows the icon of database.
[Figure 2]
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