[open-government] Economic Benefits of Open-Data - Presentation Ideas for City of Montreal

Sun Oct 31 08:42:28 UTC 2010

If I might add my thoughts -

1. this cuts costs of providing information. Instead of gov officials
cutting out pieces of information needed for other agencies, the press or
the public at large - everyone can just take what they need. While the
burden of work moves to the requestor, this saves communication time and
misunderstandings as to what is needed, hences makes the work more
efficient.

2. Cuts costs of protecting data - all too often efforts are put into
protecting data for no good reason. If we agree that much of the data should
be put in the public domain, there is much less to protect.

2010/10/29 Toby Mendel <toby at law-democracy.org>

> Hi Daniel,
>
> I have done more than 'spot' that report. I provided detailed input into
> it. Helen Darbishire, of Access Info, and I have had some discussions about
> how to extend a traditional right to information human rights analysis to OG
> but there is still a lot of background work and thinking to be done.
>
> Toby
>
> On 29 Oct 2010, at 12:37, Daniel Dietrich wrote:
>
> Dear Toby,
>
>
> On 28.10.2010, at 11:58, Toby Mendel wrote:
>
> I have not worked much in the area of "open government" (I use quotes
> because of course RTI is very much about open government too!) but I am
> starting to get more involved in it. I believe that the RTI and OG movements
> can learn a lot from each other. OG advocates can learn more about using
> human rights to promote their issue, and RTI advocates can learn more about
> some of the practical implications of openness, especially using modern
> technologies.
>
>
> I absolutely agree. I am sure you have spotted this report:
> http://access-info.org/es/open-government-data
>
>
> http://www.access-info.org/documents/documents/Beyond_Access_10_Aug_2010_consultationn.pdf
>
>
> Kind regards
> Daniel
>
>
>
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