Yes, Even Your Agency Should Open Its Data
abernard102@gmail.com 2014-11-21
Summary:
"Four open data geeks meet at a bar. And they all agree 'there aren’t enough open data success stories being told.' No punch line, because this isn’t a joke. It’s an actual conversation which took place after a recent civic hack night.
The group at the bar, which included a municipal chief data officer, an academic, and two private sector open data advocates, was talking about the resistance we sometimes meet when talking open data to government agencies and NGOs. 'It shouldn’t be that hard of a sell,' said someone in the group. 'Especially, if we were doing a better job showing that there are real economic and social solutions being built on the back of liberated data.' So, for my open data friends around the bar and across the internet, here is a list of five ways open data is transforming the business and social sectors ..."