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Most services, from payment systems to traffic information, would be provided in only one version and used by all departments—or by private firms that want to offer their own urban applications.Some cities, such as London, San Francisco and Washington, DC, have already opened their data vaults.
For instance, over the past five years, governments have opened their data to allow citizens to build useful applications and services for their communities.
The Congressional Research Service, whose reports are available to citizens if they beg their representatives for a copy, has yet to give a clear justification why they've not opened their data to the public.
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But few of the big media properties have gotten with the times and opened their data-rich platforms to indie developers and data hounds.
"I wish the high schools would open their data to us," she said.
But waiting for governments to open their data troves is not the only way to get your hands on it.
"As more governments open their data, journalists lose privileged status as gatekeepers of information – but the need for their work as curators and explainers increases.
In addition, it has been hard to monitor their effects after the fact, in part because states and districts are not required to open their data to scrutiny.
Other ideas, coming from the venture capital side, would require platforms to open their data so that individuals can access information that pertains to them and force platforms to compete for the workers, instead of the other way around.
Thankfully, no country is refusing to open their data, but because Zika has until recently been linked with only a mild illness, there weren't, until the WHO's recent call out, any systems in place to gather it.
At the time, we were doing a lot of work to advance the Open311 web standard, and had already done a ton of work around open transit data, including organizing developers to lobby NYC's transit authority to open their data and then building out NYC's real-time bus data platform.
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