How open data fuels key business sectors

"At the end of July, the Office of Management and Budget and the Center for Open Data Enterprise co-hosted a Roundtable on Open Data for Economic Growth. This event, previously described in FedScoop, demonstrated the Trump administration’s support for open government data as a resource for American business. It was also an opportunity for the private sector to have their say — telling their government counterparts why open data is central to their business and what the government can do to improve their data resources.

Research at the Center for Open Data Enterprise has shown that both new and established companies use open government data in two key ways: to develop new products and services, and to improve their operations, such as supply chain optimization or better targeted marketing. These patterns are clear in the nearly 2,000 use cases developed for the Open Data Impact Map, which tracks the uses of open government data worldwide."