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

[Tim McNamara]

2011/6/23 Martin Kaltenböck <m.kaltenboeck at semantic-web.at>

> - 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...
>

More of a hypothesis than an argument: when there are many agencies, open
data allows for greater cooperation.
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