Publish What You Pay » Open Data: it’s about the people, not just apps

"These days we all hear a lot about the data avalanche and how civil society across the world is using and getting prepared to use this data. Of course this is a very exciting prospect that in some places is actually already taking place today while the bigger transparency revolution awaits us in 2016 and beyond. These precise issues were explored at the 3rd International Open Data Conference in Ottawa at the end of May. The busy week of events dedicated to open data brought together many prominent stakeholders and leaders, including data scrapers, data geeks and community activists, from around the world to exchange ideas and work together to enable the data revolution. Indeed, they shared the most fascinating examples of data sets, portals and web tools, virtual maps and infographics. Despite all these hi-tech developments, we need to keep in mind the major reason for open data: the people ..."