UK Open Data program incubator ODI 750,000 dollars for first overseas investment

December 3 News, according to Science and technology blog TechCrunch reported that the UK Open Data project incubator Open digital Cato (hereinafter referred to as "ODI") announced today that it from the investment company Omidyar Receptacle won the first overseas investment, the investment of 750,000 U.S. dollars.

In the next five years, the British government will also provide the ODI with £ 10 million (USD 16 million). ODI also started operations today, after nearly two months of trial operation.

Using open source or open data as the basis for business operations is not a new concept. The demand for data from the opposite to everyone rather than proprietary data will grow as the big data industry grows.

ODI CEO Gavin Stax (Gavin Starks) said in a statement that "Open data has enormous untapped potential to change the way we operate our societies." ODI will enable businesses and individuals to find and exploit untapped market and business opportunities, explore and understand sociocultural trends, and try to explain this emerging ecosystem. ”

The ODI project now has four start-ups. Mastodon C is a large data analysis company, advocating "green" based on the cloud of it. PLACR is dedicated to traffic applications based on open street maps and other open source datasets. The housing application locatable a collection of property rights information and open data sets for the public. Open corporates itself as the "open database of the Enterprise World" and has information from nearly 50 million companies.

The idea of creating ODI originated in the British Technical Strategy Committee, which was created to provide a platform for British companies that rely on open data. ODI is part of a long-term plan that includes the British government data website data.gov.uk, established in 2010. In its latest study, Deloitte said that the UK's open government data Web site currently has more visits than similar sites in France and the US, with a whopping 285% increase in page traffic between January 2010 and September 2012.

Although the project is currently geared to the UK only, allowing Omidyar receptacle to participate means it may expand to other countries. It remains to be seen whether it will provide funding for open data start-ups outside the UK, but it will be able to help start-ups that have been funded from the project to expand their ideas to other markets.

"ODI will accelerate and help shape the evolution of an Open data culture," Martin Tisné, Omidyar receptacle policy director, said in a statement. It will release supply, create demand, and create and disseminate the knowledge needed to address regional and global problems. Omidyar receptacle is willing to support ODI and contribute to the development of the global Open data industry. "(Lebang)

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