[open-government] ENEL open data!

Tue Sep 20 08:31:15 UTC 2011

hi Chris, I am in touch with the person in charge of the open data project at ENEL. 
I will ask your questions and try to get some feedbacks. It seems they are committed to go further but I think they need ideas and advices to take the right directions (see the problem with the CCby "terms of use"). 
I am sure they will appreciate proposals, ideas, etc.

lorenzo

Il giorno 19/set/2011, alle ore 14:49, Chris Taggart ha scritto:

> 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).
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> 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.
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> http://data.enel.com/en
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> 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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