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

[Jonathan Gray]

Brilliant - thanks Ewan. This is now added to the list:
http://bit.ly/opendata-betterdata

Any other examples would be warmly welcomed! (You can also email me
directly rather than to the mailing list, if you'd prefer.)


On 1 September 2013 22:56, Ewan Klein <ewan.klein at gmail.com> wrote:

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