Emu Analytics - Blog - Who Funds Our Open Data Infrastructure?

"The Open Data Institute (ODI) recently published a report asking ‘who owns our data infrastructure?’, and invited others to blog their thoughts and feedback on the subject. As this is a subject very close to our heart, we thought we would respond. As the report outlines, there is huge potential and value in the numerous and varied data assets created by organisations in both the public and private sector, which if exposed responsibly, could have a huge positive impact on society and commerce in a wide variety of ways. Emu Analytics is completely aligned with this message. After all, it is the primary purpose for which we formed our business… in order to responsibly utilise organisations’ data assets for innovative and meaningful use cases. The need for responsibility, openness and transparency is further referenced in the ODI report, and should not be underestimated, particularly when the organisation is public facing and where the data underpinning an open data initiative is derived from the general public or customer. We wrote about this in one of our earlier blogs, ‘A Word on Privacy’. Within their report the ODI references six expectations that they would have for organisations contributing to an Open Data society ..."