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Tim Berners-Lee: The Year Open Data Went Worldwide

Having RAW data available at your fingertips is a very powerful tool, it can change lives for the better. Tim Berners-Lee explains the endless possibilities and encourages us to get involved in this trend at his TED talk called “raw data now”. Tim explores a few interesting results, of when , scientists, institutions and even communities make their data openly available on the web. How it can and will be used by other people to do wonderful things, in ways that they never could have imagined.

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