[open-government] ENEL open data!

Mon Sep 19 12:49:12 UTC 2011

Lorenzo
Saw this & thought it was really interested. Do you have a contact there?
Had some feedback that might be useful (mainly on format, and other info
that might be useful to provide -- e.g. names of directors, corporate
structure).

Chris

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On 19 September 2011 11:30, Lorenzo Benussi <lorenzo.benussi at top-ix.org>wrote:

> Compliments to ENEL that published today its data under CCby.
> The first case of a private italian company adopting the open data model.
>
> http://data.enel.com/en
>
> I think it's a good news for at least two reasons:
> 1) It make corporate data more transparent, in particular financial data.
> It can lead to new forms of collecting "economic" data (open and
> crowd-sourced) that can hopefully make more accurate accounts of global
> markets (we need it, don't we?) - Imagine to empower projects like
> opencorporates with open data sources directly from corporations.
> 2) It can start a inspire others corporations to provide open data
> information about assets, process, and everything they do that is relevant
> to the public. Some examples could be: information about natural resources
> provided by the oil industry, the power and communication grids, ships
> logistics, ecc.
>
> I am looking forward to see more private open data!
>
> I am also happy that the news comes from an italian company, It's the kind
> of good example we need so much.
>
> Ciao, lorenzo
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