Benefits
To governments
- Reduce time, effort and resources in fulfilling public information requests
- Increase data quality by providing correct data to public from the source
- Reduce duplication of effort
- Increase data access, availability, and speed of delivery
- Improve citizen satisfaction and create good public relations with your community
To citizens
- Open access to complete, formatted data rather than relying on third party interpretations or subsets
- Information accessibility leads to greater government accountability
- Fosters better community action on social issues, e.g. crime, pollution, permits, accidents, and education
- Improves regional competitiveness by giving businesses quicker and fuller access to data
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Susan Pecker Fowler (1823–1911)