Hi, In addition to the angles that Serge mentions, I'd imagine that some people would be most interested in an economic angle, showing that open data improves the local economy.
This UK report estimates that the OS OpenData initiative will deliver a net £13.0 million - £28.5 million increase in GDP in 2016. The main components of this increase are net productivity gains (£8.1 million – £18.2 million) and additional real tax revenues (£4.4 million – £8.3 million): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ordnance-survey-open-data-economic-value-study This Danish report "documents that the free-of-charge agreement, as anticipated, has been an important condition for realising considerable social benefits of reusing public data on addresses": http://www.adresse-info.dk/Portals/2/Benefit/Value_Assessment_Danish_Address_Data_UK_2010-07-07b.pdf The UK Open Data Institute has more info and links in this guide: "How to make a business case for open data": http://theodi.org/guide/how-make-business-case-open-data This presentation is about open-source not open-data, but shows that openness can reduce costs over the lifetime of a service (stats quoted include 10% saving in public sector, 44% in finance sector): http://www.slideshare.net/cdaffara/economic-value-of-open-source-14861646 Best Dan 2013/10/12 Daniel Joseph <[email protected]>: > Hi everyone, > > I was wondering if anyone had experience conveying to local government all > the reasons for opening up data. The city where I grew up has a clunky "GIS > web portal" with which you can only view data. A neighboring city will > provide data but their data release form includes the following: "The data > is provided solely for the use of the requesting party and may not be made > available to anyone else." > > I want to put together a succinct and well-documented argument that I can > send along to a city council member/ mayor/ city manager/ etc. > > Anything you're willing to pass along (comments, suggestions, something > you've written up, research, etc) would be much appreciated. > > Thanks, > Dan > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
