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Subject: [open-government] ENEL open data!
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From: Lorenzo Benussi <lorenzo.benussi@top-ix.org>
Date: Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:30 PM
To: euopendata Working Group <euopendata@lists.okfn.org>, open-government@lists.okfn.org


Compliments to ENEL that published today its data under CCby.
The first case of a private italian company adopting the open data model.

http://data.enel.com/en

I think it's a good news for at least two reasons:
1) It make corporate data more transparent, in particular financial data. It can lead to new forms of collecting "economic" data (open and crowd-sourced) that can hopefully make more accurate accounts of global markets (we need it, don't we?) - Imagine to empower projects like opencorporates with open data sources directly from corporations.
2) It can start a inspire others corporations to provide open data information about assets, process, and everything they do that is relevant to the public. Some examples could be: information about natural resources provided by the oil industry, the power and communication grids, ships logistics, ecc.

I am looking forward to see more private open data!

I am also happy that the news comes from an italian company, It's the kind of good example we need so much.

Ciao, lorenzo
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From: Chris Taggart <countculture@gmail.com>
Date: 2011/9/19
To: Lorenzo Benussi <lorenzo.benussi@top-ix.org>
Cc: open-government@lists.okfn.org, euopendata Working Group <euopendata@lists.okfn.org>


Lorenzo
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From: Lorenzo Benussi <lorenzo.benussi@top-ix.org>
Date: Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:31 AM
To: Chris Taggart <countculture@gmail.com>
Cc: open-government@lists.okfn.org, euopendata Working Group <euopendata@lists.okfn.org>


hi Chris, I am in touch with the person in charge of the open data project at ENEL.
I will ask your questions and try to get some feedbacks. It seems they are committed to go further but I think they need ideas and advices to take the right directions (see the problem with the CCby "terms of use").
I am sure they will appreciate proposals, ideas, etc.

lorenzo

Il giorno 19/set/2011, alle ore 14:49, Chris Taggart ha scritto:

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From: Chris Taggart <countculture@gmail.com>
Date: 2011/9/20
To: Lorenzo Benussi <lorenzo.benussi@top-ix.org>
Cc: open-government@lists.okfn.org, euopendata Working Group <euopendata@lists.okfn.org>


Perfect. Thanks
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