Open Government Data are valuable initiatives in favour of transparency, accountability, and openness. The expectation is to increase participation by engaging citizens, non-profit organisations, and companies in reusing Open Data (OD). A potential barrier in the exploitation of OD and engagement of the target audience is the low quality of available datasets.
Tag: Italy
Open Data (OD) is one of the most discussed issue of Big Data which raised the joint interest of public institutions, citizens and private companies since 2009. However, the massive amount of freely available data has not yet brought the expected effects: as of today, there is no application that has fully exploited the potential provided by large and distributed information sources in a non-trivial way, nor any service has substantially changed for the better the lives of people.
