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Open Data & Community Empowerment
I am finding it difficult to nail down your essential point due to the following conflations (which I think are more a reflection of what you've encountered while researching this article):
1. Open Data and Linked Data
2. Linked Data and SPARQL.
The ultimate impact of Open Data is that it achieves the following:
1. Puts an end to dysfunctional monopolies that have charged citizens for their own data while enriching a "connected few"
2. Reflects the changing colour of capital from "Green" to "Grey" -- we are in the information age so "Data is the new Electricity" .
Government globally are about creating the environment for their respective communities to blossom. Thus, in the information age it's critical for governments to ensure electricity flows in their respective economies. Once the electricity is following new industries and economic models will emerge (as they've done in the past).
New electricity for a new economic frontier trumps printing money as futile attempt to preserve the current system (which is totally broken due to lots of fissure points re. transparency).
Kingsley