VIdeo: Open Data, Collaboration and Coalescence

With government and private industry fundamentally different, why should both sectors take the same approach to open data?

"The digital government environment today is really being defined by the Web and the interface that governments are trying to use to create an experience for constituents," Bob Runge said.

Runge, a member of the board of directors at Socrata, hopes to automate the data process for government.

"There's almost an unimaginable number of questions that can be answered with existing data, if you know how to stage and present that data," he said. "We're just trying to solve that fundamental problem."

Check out the video, from Socrata's Open Data TV, below: 

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