The Cui-bono Approach to Open Data

July 3, 2015
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(This article was originally published at Blog about Stats, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.)

What’s the problem? Which data are needed to solve it? Who gets an advantage of it?

These few questions are valuable key for implementing the open data culture. Open data not as ‘l’art pour l’art’ but in a pragmatic approach, demonstrating that the ‘proof of the pudding is in the eating’.

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It seems to work very well as Ton Zijlstra showed in his presentation at the Swiss Opendata Conference 2015.

He gives some examples of situations where open data helped to provide a solution to a problem and where stakeholders got an answer to their issues.

‘Planning for socio-economic impact. open data as a policy instrument.’
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