Ronald Plasterk And so a simple Phone Number Database principle is reduced to a complex state of ifs and buts. Millions of euros in profit for business The call to the government to make open data available is getting louder. And that is Phone Number Database not strange. Firstly, there is the requirement that the government in a democracy must be verifiable and therefore transparent in every respect. A second argument is that making Phone Number Database data available can stimulate the economy.
However, it is not easy to find Phone Number Database examples of successful initiatives in this area in our Low Countries. A well-known application is Buienradar, which uses data provided by the KNMI. Another example is Funda, which enriches the content with data from Statistics Netherlands and the Land Registry. Of course there are also the Phone Number Database consultancy firms that are active in the field of big open data and there will undoubtedly be companies that use open data in their decision-making processes. But successful business models that exclusively use open data are still very rare.
Also read: Dutch vs. Belgians: 7 important Phone Number Database life lessons [you taught me] What can open data yield? It is Phone Number Database certainly not only ICT tinkerers who want to develop new apps, who benefit from better access to data. For Belgium, technology federation Agoria has made a calculation that shows Phone Number Database that opening up data to the Belgian business world can yield a net profit of no less than 900 million euros.