Open Data or Closed? - Greek 2013 Open Data Day

"The Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS) of "Athena" Research Center ("Athena" RC), and the Greek Free/Open Source Software Society (GFOSS), organized for the Greek Open Data Day for 2013. Through this event, the open data community in Greece joined volunteers in 109 cities across the world, in celebration of the global Open Data Day. The International Open Data Hackathon is a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption open data policies by the world's local, regional and national governments. The Greek Open Data Day followed the footsteps of yearly open data days and hackathons co-organized by IMIS and GFOSS since 2010. This year, more than 160 members of the open data community were present, marking a milestone for open data in Greece. The participation, interest and efforts of all volunteers were an unprecedented success! ..."