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Uploaded by on Nov 16, 2006

Laura DeNardis, Visiting Fellow in the Information Society Project at Yale Law School discusses how a lack of Open Standards impeded public access to governmental services following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and also in Thailand following the 2004 Tsunami.

This presentation took place at the UN Internet Governance Forum in Athens Greece during the Open Standards Workshop.

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  • shes smart

  • Incompatibility problems like that are bit of an annoyance and setback, the problem is people keep creating and changing standards to the point there's so many references out there and these are custom developed proprietary standards that aren't shared and simplified and included or supported by custom applications. For the same reason a developer wastes time re-inveting the wheel like an OBJModel file format reader. Yet someone else has already developed a method for reading/writing that data.

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