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title: Open Data
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## Open Data
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Open data is data that is freely available and anyone can _access, reuse, and share_ it.
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The following points are characteristic of open data:
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* The data becomes usable by being available in a common understandable format.
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* The data must be available under an open license. This allows anyone to use, redistribute and modify it.
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Open data can help governments, businesses, and individuals.
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Some benefits of open data include:
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* promotes transparency and accountability
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* helps entities and individuals make decisions
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* promotes economic growth in the private sector
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* improves effectiveness for government services
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* brings forth socioeconomic change
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One way that you can use open data is through Civic Hacking in your local code for America Brigade.
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#### More Information:
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* [Open Data Wikipedia Page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data)
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* [Find Your Brigade](http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/brigade/)
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* [Kaggle datasets](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets)
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* [US Government Open Data](https://www.data.gov/)
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* [Microsoft Research Open Data](https://msropendata.com/)
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