Re: The DATA Act, Department of the Treasury, and Machine Learning Technologies

Gannon,

 

Some figurative language use and analogy has been observed at the W3C, in the past, amidst combinations of government climates (in addition to being citizens, scientists and professors receive public funding), amidst the technical nature of the forums, combined with the human desire to express and discuss topics broadly, including topics which overlap with the Web.


 

Towards quality and substantive debate on technical topics, two approaches are: encouraging orators to do technical research and encouraging scientists and technologists to consider exploring oration and public speaking.  Groups of scientists can utilize auditoriums, including at universities, film their discussions, post-produce their discussions and upload the videos to the Web.

 

Summarily, concurrent to advocating public debate on the Web, including a Web video series, encouraging scientists to speak up and speak clearly has been thematic.  Somebody may have expressed concerns, for instance, which catalyzed and mobilized the P3P 1.0 and 1.1 endeavors and numerous other scientific endeavors at the W3C and elsewhere; it is productive for everybody when scientists can express concerns comfortably in scientific forums.

 

To the technical topics, in addition to big data and government, other contemporary technology topics, such as educational data mining (http://www.educationaldatamining.org/), appear to involve public discussion, public debate.  Those who are interested in argumentation tend to explore topics, to circumnavigate topics, to be able to argue each side, in the process of forming opinions, which can be phrased as a style of learning.  Debate materials and videos can be utilized for such research purposes.

 


Scientists can discuss these topics, big data and government, educational data mining, and numerous other topics, to participate in and/or to browse debates, to ensure better summations of moral compasses and that reason prevails.  Discussion and debate can address concerns and enhance policy deliberations, policy reports, and policy.  Those opposed to government debate on some topics can consider that other people can debate topics.  I have long supported public debate including, recently, a show on PBS based on The Advocates and, when last I heard, PBS, WGBH Boston, had a production partner and they were fund-raising.

 

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Adam