Open Data Now: The Secret to Hot Startups, Smart Investing, Savvy Marketing, and Fast Innovation (Business Books)

The smart grid, which used Open Data to help consumers control their use of electricity, dramatically increased energy efficiency nationwide.

This kind of data fuels the participatory budgeting movement, where cities around the world are inviting their residents to look at the city budget and help decide how to spend it. It’s

chosen a simple and expansive definition of Open Data: it’s accessible public data that people, companies, and organizations can use to launch new ventures, analyze patterns and trends, make data-driven decisions, and solve complex problems. Others

Once the data was public, companies worked quickly to improve their sustainability practices.

reputation, good and bad, than most focus groups can. Monitoring the social web and the Open Data derived from it can be a primary source of marketing intelligence.

Because all important datasets are now interoperable, many new companies are based on creative data mashups.