There’s an in-depth post on the Wired blog network that points to the democratization and transparency of data as a stimulus act unto itself. The piece quotes Sean Gorman, CEO of FortiusOne, as an entrepreneur that’s ready to jump on the opportunities that more free federal government data provide.
“Accessible government information—particularly databases released in machine-readable formats, like RSS, XML, and KML—spawn new business and grease the wheels of the economy. “The data is the infrastructure,” in the words of Sean Gorman, the CEO of FortiusOne, a company that builds layered maps around open-source geographic information. For every spreadsheet squirreled away on a federal agency server, there are entrepreneurs like Gorman ready to turn a profit by reorganizing, parsing, and displaying it.”
Read the full feature here.
