[okfn-discuss] Benefit and arguments for open gov data in small local governments

Tue Jun 21 15:05:36 UTC 2011

Hi Martin,

Very interesting question. Perhaps you could ask it on our
open-government mailing list as I think you will get your best answer
from the community there!
(http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-government)

Regards,

Lucy

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Martin Kaltenböck
<m.kaltenboeck at semantic-web.at> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> in the course the OGD2011 conference last week in Vienna, Austria (see:
> http://www.ogd2011.at)
> we had a discussion about:
>
> - what are the main benefits of / arguments for open (government) data in
> (very) small local governments (small town, village, small municipality)
>
> Anyone having good arguments for this?
> We do have about ~ 3.700 municipalities in Austria - and most of them are
> very, very small
> So we are collecting arguments & benefits for open data to convince them...
>
> Many thanks for input on this!!
>
> Cheers - martin
>
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