Published by Rubén Vinagre Sáenz
18/10/2012
Governments worldwide are making a steady progress with realising the open data initiative. Several national governments have created web sites to distribute a portion of the data they collect, enhance collaboration and create culture for open government data. A list of over 200 local, regional and national open data catalogues is available on the open source datacatalogs.org project, which aims to be a comprehensive list of data catalogues from around the world. Prominent examples include such countries as United Kingdom, Norway, United States, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, France or South Korea, and international organisations such as OECD or World Bank. Everyone seems to agree that open data is a great tool for governments to improve their service to citizens, civil society and busin...