New study on the benefits of Open Data

The Bertelsmann foundation has published a new study on Open Data: Open Data – Wertschöpfung im digitalen Zeitalter (Open Data – Value creation in the digital age). Illustrated with examples from both Germany and other countries, the study emphasizes that freely accessible data brings many practical advantages to citizens, politics and the economy and could even increase social prosperity. This is in line with the conclusions of the research conducted by the European Data Portal, published in the Creating value through Open Data report.