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Jun 10, 10:54 pm: What's your favorite imaginary mashup?
In the run up to this year’s NetSquared, we asked ourselves what would happen if we got some terrific ideas that can’t happen because the data isn’t open and accessible?
Good, we said, to each. Great. It could be a way to advocate for a different kind of openness.
It seems according to this post, Where Are the APIs for Government Data, some other folks agree. Authors from Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy write:
Rather than struggling, as it currently does, to design sites that meet each end-user need, we argue that the executive branch should focus on creating a simple, reliable and publicly accessible infrastructure that exposes the underlying data. Private actors, either nonpror commercial, are better suited to deliver government information to citizens and can constantly create and reshape the tools individuals use to nd and leverage public data. The best way to ensure that the government allows private parties to compete on equal terms in the provision of government data is to require that federal websites themselves use the same open systems for accessing the underlying data as they make available to the public at large.Which leads me to ask: what’s your favorite imaginary mashup? The data that you’d like see combined if only you get your mitts on the data?
