Great video from Ted. Transcript:
TBL: In fact if you're responsible -- if you know about some data in a government department, often you find that these people, they're very tempted to keep it. Hans calls it database hugging. You hug your database, you don't want to let it go until you've made a beautiful website for it. Well, I'd like to suggest that rather -- yes, make a beautiful website, who am I to say don't make a beautiful website? Make a beautiful website, but first give us the unadulterated data, we want the data. We want unadulterated data. OK, we have to ask for raw data now. And I'm going to ask you to practice that, OK? Say "raw."
Audience: Raw.
TBL: Can you say "data"?
Audience: Data.
TBL: Can you say "now"?
Audience: Now!
TBL: Alright, raw data now!
Audience: Raw data now!
TBL: Practice that. It's important because you have no idea the number of excuses people come up with to hang onto their data and not give it to you, even though you've paid for it as a taxpayer. And it's not just America. It's all over the world.
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The open government part starts about 10 mins in.
