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About Simon Chignard

Simon Chignard is Etalab Data Editor in charge of public open data platform data.gouv.fr. Data specialist, he previously worked with private and public organizations to define open and data-driven strategies. He wrote “Open Data, comprendre l’ouverture des données publiques” (Fyp Editions, 2012) and “Datanomics, les nouveaux business models des données” with Louis-David Benyayer (Fyp Editions, 2015).

Open Data: show me the money!

Open Data: show me the money!

Four years after the first moves toward opening public data in France, the economic question remains the same – why do we always have so much difficulty determining the economic impact of open data other than in a McKinsey-like style, in billions of dollars? Where is the start-up that will revolutionize the world and that […]