Open is good for business.
Oleg Lavrovsky / Startup Camp Switzerland Basel 2013

What is open?

Open is an ecosystem

Open is my community

Open as in linked data

"A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute
and share-alike."

Opendefinition.org

"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. Thousands of years of evolution have made humans great BS detectors, so why do people even try to be something they're not?"

-Giacomo "Peldi" Guilizzoni, Founder

"There is little doubt that [big data] creates business value by enabling organizations to uncover previously unseen patterns and develop sharper insights," said David Newman, research vice president at Gartner. "However, for clients seeking competitive advantage through direct interactions with customers, partners and suppliers,
open data is the solution."

"The open data ecosystem has fundamental implications for the future of business and the nature of customer interaction. 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."