Open Data Is Changing the World . . . | NYU Tandon School of Engineering

"Open data—in other words, data that can be freely used, re-used, and redistributed by anyone—is gradually bringing about social and economic transformation around the globe. NYU’s Governance Lab (GovLab), in collaboration with the Omidyar Network, set out to document that phenomenon, and they’ve posted a first batch of resulting case studies on a new website, Open Data’s Impact. A second batch of case studies and a paper describing key findings across the case studies will be released over the next two months. Taken as a whole, the studies provide a good understanding of the impact open data can have ..."