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Introduction to Open Data by Sir Tim Berners-Lee29. April 2010 – 14:52 by Bengt Feil (TuTech Innovation GmbH) |
Open access to government data is an important factor in modernising how government and democracy works and is closely related to the development of electronic forms of participation. Sometimes the discussion about Open Data is quite abstract or technical – but it does not need to be.
The six minute talk by Sir Tim Berners -Lee gives a short and passionate introduction to why Open Data matters and how it can be used to improve people’s lives:
If you got 15 more minutes at hand take a look at Mr. Berners-Lees talk on “the next Web” which also features the Open Data topic:
Tags: inenglish, open data, opendata, Tim Bernes-Lee
