Here are 4 Ways #Opendata Could Improve the World, Down to Your Neighborhood

We caught up with Stefaan Verhulst to talk about his new ebook, "The Global Impact of Open Data."


Education, government corruption, economic opportunity, disaster response: Stefaan Verhulst sees the opportunity for open data to dramatically improve the lives of people in each of these categories, and really, way more.

We caught up with the cofounder of the GovLab at NYU Tandon, who's got a new ebook out, The Global Impact of Open Data, written with Andrew Young. Verhulst and Young are offering the book, of course, for free, open to the public as a PDF download in O'Reilly's ebook catalog.

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