Open data released by Statistics Netherlands – rated second in the world behind Denmark in open data inventory – saw a surge to 3.2 million open data retrievals in the second quarter of 2018 alone https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/corporate/2018/31/explosive-growth-in-use-of-cbs-open-data, especially in the private sector where its use may raise some interesting public policy issues for students to explore.
Some young researchers from the Netherlands Statistics CBS group also participated in an innovative professional learning opportunity, the hackatrain event while enroute to a conference in Berlin: https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/corporate/2018/28/hackatrain-creative-mobility-solutions. A cool idea might be to put out a challenge to design an updated version of The National Dream: The Great “Digital” Highway 2020 to 2030. It might make for an interesting “participatory” narrative. Jonathan
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