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Why is Open Data Important?
Michael SoperCambridgeshire County Council
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Going ‘up river’
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Purpose of today
• Publicise funding received via ‘Release of Data Fund’
• Ensure wide engagement with ‘open data’ from Cambridgeshire agencies
• Impart knowledge from a range of individuals- how to do Open Data
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Why Open Data?
• Transparency and democratic control• Participation• Self-empowerment
• Improved or new private products and services• Improved efficiency of government services• Improved effectiveness of government services
• Impact measurement of policies• New knowledge from combined data sources and
patterns in large data volumes