[open-government] Two reasons for open government data looking for examples

M. Fioretti mfioretti at nexaima.net
Tue May 10 09:35:41 UTC 2011


On Tue, May 10, 2011 4:10 am, Tim McNamara wrote:
> I am interested to hear if anyone has seen examples of these arguments
> I've found myself using to justify open government data:
>
> Open data means that
>   - others can & do clean messy data up for everyone's benefit, reducing
> costs and providing value to the source agency

Tim,
If I remember correctly, there _may_ be some declaration of this kind in
reports about the experience of the London Datastore.

HTH,
Marco
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