#startup #ecosystem
“I am trying to build a company I would like to do business with as a consumer. Being transparent is how I'm trying to gain my customers' trust and respect."
-Giacomo "Peldi" Guilizzoni, Founder
#business #evolutionary
“The trend towards greater provision and use of open data will be irresistible, forcing businesses to conceive new commercial models, derive higher quality insights, develop new ways of engaging with stakeholders and ultimately enable the economic and societal benefits of open data to emerge."
#government #transparency
“It's a shift in power, and that's what people are afraid of, this worldview that people should be treated as subjects rather than co-creators - what open data does is it flips that and says they're co-creators, not subjects."
-Vivek Kundra, first CIO of the United States
#research #access
“At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes - an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense."
-Carl Sagan
learning techniques
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improving information access
making sense of finance
having fun!
Make.Opendata.ch Introduction by Oleg Lavrovsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
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“It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project."-Herbie Hancock
