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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Famous quotes containing the word benefits:
“I do seriously believe that if we can measure among the States the benefits resulting from the preservation of the Union, the rebellious States have the larger share. It destroyed an institution that was their destruction. It opened the way for a commercial life that, if they will only embrace it and face the light, means to them a development that shall rival the best attainments of the greatest of our States.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“While greedy good-doers, beneficent beasts of prey,
Swarm over their lives enforcing benefits ...”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“When your parents are in political life, you aren’t normal. Everybody talks about the benefits, but I don’t know what the benefits are.... But I’d rather have that kind of mother than an overweight housewife.”
—Katherine Berman Mariano (b. 1957)