[open-government] Examples of open data leading to increase in data quality?

Ewan Klein ewan.klein at gmail.com
Sun Sep 1 20:56:11 UTC 2013


On 27 Aug 2013, at 16:50, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:

> I wonder if anyone has any good examples or evidence of how open data (or - more generally - publicly released machine readable data) has led to an increase in data quality?

The following blog entry discusses this issue, especially concerning charities data:

http://blog.opencorporates.com/2011/05/19/case-study-fixing-broken-government-information-with-open-data/

Regards,

Ewan

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