data and society

• citizen science - lots of people to help with a scientific project, like asking everyone around the world to count the butterflies they see one day
• creative commons - an alternative to copyright that allows people to declare how they want their artistic creations to be shared, remixed, used in noncommercial contexts, and how the policy should propagate with remixed versions
• Crowdsourcing - Asking lots of users online to help with something like funding a project or running SETI@Home to help look for extraterrestrial signals
• Digital Divide - The idea that some communities / populations have less access to computing than others