The Economic Impact of Open Data

"As the open data movement has progressed over the last several years, governments have moved from focusing on transparency to providing direct access to data catalogs, together with tools for analyzing and visualizing that data. More recently, government leaders are starting to fully appreciate the value of open data as a resource for stimulating economic growth. This is an exciting development and a trend that shows no sign of slowing. In fact, the number of new businesses building their go-to-market strategies around the free-flow of public data is growing ..."