Summary:
The heavy focus in the Open Government community on just “getting the data” has obscured some of the downstream requirements that are necessary to achieve the goals of OpenGov initiatives. Sometimes it seems there’s a perception that just exposing the data is enough – and there’s an expectation that useful applications will start to “magically” appear.

In order for Open Government initiatives to produce results that will truly affect political and cultural change, we need rich, usable, and USEFUL solutions that will add real value to citizens and agencies… and that doesn’t happen by accident or merely through community enthusiasm.
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