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The Year Open Data Went Worldwide
Tim Berners-Lee, February 2010
Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web and leads the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees the Web's standards and development, used one of our maps (of Coal Run Road in Zanesville, Ohio) as an example of the power of data. A video of his talk is on Ted.com.
Denied Water Service Because of Race, African Americans Win
$10.85 Million
in a
Jury Verdict.
Clearinghouse Review, Journal of Law and Poverty, November/December 2009
"The maps of these data were more powerful than any oral description of the evidence of discrimination."
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The Revolution Will Be Mapped
Miller-McCune Magazine, January/February 2010
"GIS mapping technology is helping underprivileged communities get better services — from education and transportation to health care and law enforcement — by showing exactly what discrimination looks like."
Link to article here.
A Blow Against Exclusion
News and Observer, July 23, 2008
"This month a jury in Zanesville, Ohio, awarded $10.9 million to residents of a mostly black neighborhood after finding that the local government discriminated against the community by denying access to public water service, even though it provided water to nearby predominantly white neighborhoods. Low-income and minority neighborhoods across the country face similar discriminatory patterns of municipal exclusion."
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U.S. Open Used in Drive for Inclusion
Charlotte Observer, June 5, 2005
"Residents say economic bias denies them better services, stronger voice"
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The View From the Other Side of the Tracks
NPR's "The Connection", June 10, 2005
"The Connection" hosted a discussion of underbounding and its results.
Click here to listen.
A History of Separation Studied
The Fayetteville Observer, May 2, 2004
"Civil rights organizations are studying the way black communities have been affected by their exclusion from some Moore County towns. The Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities, a nonprofit organization in Mebane, uses advanced mapping technology and North Carolina census data to find boundaries drawn along racial lines. It also looks at where utilities are built..."
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