Graphic detail | Open data

Show me the money

When transparency is the handmaiden to innovation

By J.S. and K.N.C.

When transparency is the handmaiden to innovation

THE opening bell for open data has been rung. Over the past week, a ganglion of groups has unveiled initiatives in support of freely accessible, public sector information. Together, it suggest that the open data movement has finally come of age.

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