Government motivation for Open Data

• “Make data freely accessible to support productivity and innovation through better exploitation of data”

• “Enable easy access to open data and creation of new services and applications that will make it better, easier and more fun to be a citizen, guest, migrant, etc.”

• Target audience: “Developers, entrepeneurs, organizations, citizens, etc.” (source: ODAA.dk)

• Note absence of words like “transparency”, “accountability”, “citizen participation”, “freedom”, “democracy”