Anthea Watson Strong: Some Thoughts on Investing in Infrastructure for Civic Technology

Anthea Watson Strong: Some Thoughts on Investing in Infrastructure for Civic Technology:

While there is real value in making almost any data set publicly available, and the presumption should always be to publish public data sets, we often depend on the argument “transparency is better” without spending the time and energy to flesh out the case that a particular dataset is worth the cost to the public of publishing it.