EU puts €14.4m into UK-inspired open data movement

"The EU is placing €14.4m (£11m) in three open data initiatives. One of the projects builds on a startup programme fostered by the London-based Open Data Institute, which was founded by Nigel Shadbolt and Tim Berners-Lee with £10m of UK government funding in 2012. The EU will invest €7.8m in a Europe-wide incubator, €3.7m in a web data research network and €2.9m in an academy to train data scientists ..."