How has open data impacted you and your community?
peter.suber's bookmarks 2014-02-23
Summary:
"Over the last decade, Open Data initiatives have become increasingly popular with governments and civil society organisations across the world. Through these initiatives they hope to tap into its potential benefits of innovation, delivery of better services more cost effectively, combating climate change, improving urban planning, and reducing corruption; to name just a few possibilities.
We want to know how opening up data impacts those in developing countries. The Partnership for Open Data (POD) is a partnership of institutions to research and promote open data in the context of low and middle income countries. We invite you to share your stories with us about how open data has positively impacted you, or those around you - technologically, politically, commercially, environmentally, socially, or in any other way...."