The future will be built on open data – here’s why

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The European Union Open Data Portal, the British government's efforts under the banner of Opening up Government, and the Global Open Data Index are three examples of initiatives that bring together and make available large amounts of data about industry, health, education, and employment among other fields.

It requires data providers, data users and data developers to come together for a common goal as is the case with Future City Glasgow.

Currently more than 370 open datasets are available that map the activities of the city, including travel, demographic, education, energy, health and safety data.

More cities throughout the UK are now putting technology in place to take advantage of open data.

Initiatives like Future City Glasgow use open data to create predictive systems that provide the information citizens need to make better day-to-day decisions.

To really make open data initiatives like this work it's vital that those behind them get buy-in from the public - in order to share their data, and to gain their trust that it will be securely held and properly anonymised where necessary.

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