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an estimation of the impact of Open Data generally, or a specific data set, on UK economic growth…

"Big data is a topic of growing interest for many business and IT leaders, and there is little doubt that it creates business value by enabling organizations to uncover previously unseen patterns and develop sharper insights about their businesses and environments," David Newman, research vice president at Gartner, said in prepared remarks. "However, for clients seeking competitive advantage through direct interactions with customers, partners and suppliers, open data is the solution. For example, more government agencies are now opening their data to the public Web to improve transparency, and more commercial organizations are using open data to get closer to customers, share costs with partners and generate revenue by monetizing information assets.

The company's report noted that enterprise architects could play an important role in fostering information-sharing practices

Gartner suggested open data application programming interfaces (APIs) are a lightweight approach to data exchange. These APIs can be new sources of revenue, spur innovation, increase transparency and improve brand equity

Last week my vague feelings of unease about social networking were fanned by a fascinating study by the Mental Health Foundation, which blamed high levels of loneliness among young people on their use of virtual, rather than real, communication. Dubbed the “Eleanor Rigby generation”, those aged 18-34 (84% of whom use the internet regularly) are the most likely to be lonely, according to the report. And 31% admitted that they spent too much time online rather than face to face.

The psychologist Dr Aric Sigman says that social networking sites undermine social skills and the ability to read body language.

Such free cooperation can only be hindered ‘artificially’, through either legal means ( intellectual property regimes) or through technical restrictions such as  Digital Rights Management, which essentially hinder the social innovation that can take place.

The expansion of peer production is dependent on cultural/legal conditions. It requires;open and free raw cultural material to use; participative structures to process it; and commons-based property forms to protect the results from private appropriation.

In most cases, distribution beats decentralization and centralization as the best way to deal with  complexity.

How, then, does the public get access to data, and ideally, to raw data streams?

Using force, by changing the laws or creating new regulations

Using intimidation, by enlisting the news media to pressure the agency

Internal (intra or inter-government) collaboration. Institutional presence on external social networks Open government data Employees on external social networks 

Increased government efficiency Increased government accountability Increased citizen engagement and participation Increased innovation

Potential loss of privacy Invalid data

Die YPD-Challenge 2010 YPD steht für Young, Powerful und Dynamic. – Und damit für Österreichs Next Generation, die ihre berufliche Zukunft selbst in die Hand nehmen will.

Web 2.0 applications don’t generally use a middleware tier to facilitate messaging across users or applications. They use APIs and web-based database access methods to go directly to the source.

it certainly appears that between cloud computing models and Web 2.0 having been forced to solve the shared messaging concept without middleware – and having done so successfully – that middleware as a service is obsolete.

European public bodies produce thousands upon thousands of datasets every year

We are challenging designers, developers, journalists, researchers and the general public to come up with something useful, valuable or interesting using open public data.