From Data to Apps: Putting Government Information to Work fo

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From Data to Apps: Putting Government Information to Work for You
Posted by Vivek Kundra on May 20, 2011 at 3:08 PM EDT

When the Department of Defense in the 1990s released GPS data, originally developed for military use, to the public, it sparked an explosion of innovation that gave rise to tools we now use in our everyday lives – from helping us find our way in an unfamiliar city to assisting first responders save lives. But why stop there?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/05/ ... n-work-you