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

Jonathan Gray jonathan.gray at okfn.org
Mon Sep 2 10:37:39 UTC 2013


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:
>
> 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
>
> -------------
> Ewan Klein
> OKF Ambassador for Scotland
> Skype:  ewan.h.klein |  @ewanhklein <https://twitter.com/ewanhklein>
> The Open Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/>
> Empowering through Open Knowledge
> http://scot.okfn.org/  |  @okfnscot <https://twitter.com/okfnscot>
>
>


-- 

Jonathan Gray

Director of Policy and Ideas  | *@jwyg <https://twitter.com/jwyg>*

The Open Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/>
*

Empowering through Open Knowledge

okfn.org  |  @okfn <http://twitter.com/OKFN>  |  OKF on
Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/OKFNetwork> |
Blog <http://blog.okfn.org/>  |  Newsletter<http://okfn.org/about/newsletter>
*
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-government/attachments/20130902/bd19faf9/attachment-0001.html>


More information about the open-government mailing list