Query: Why does open data progress only slowly worldwide ?
Source: Open_Data_Report.pdf
Relevant passages:
great inefficiencies and delays still keep the time and cost savings that could be achieved a far goal for the European Union
the original discourse and arguments around Open Data are heavily Western centric
The reason is that even where good Freedom of Information laws exist in Latin America, they still have too little practical effects
However, there are still too few public departments and procedures that use digital documents and procedures on a scale large enough to generate meaningful volumes of digital data that could be then published online