Print Email Facebook Twitter Funding Open Data Title Funding Open Data Author Welle Donker, F.M. (TU Delft OLD Geo-information and Land Development) Contributor van Loenen, Bastiaan (editor) Vancauwenberghe, Glenn (editor) Crompvoets, Joep (editor) Date 2018 Abstract Open government data are fast becoming entrenched in our society. However, even though open government data may be “free”, it is not “gratis”. It takes substantial human and financial resources not only to collect and maintain government data, but also to process the data to be suitable for distribution as open data. Those resources need to be funded. In this chapter, we identify potential funding models for open data.We also explore the costs of implementing open data policies, and the benefits of open data, both for the open data organisation and for society. We demonstrate that the once-off operational costs of open data supply are marginal compared to the total operational costs of the open data organisation. Open data leads to efficiency gains within the open data organisation and to societal benefits. However, to reap those benefits, it is essential that organisations switching to open data, receive compensation, at least in the short-term. The compensation may be found in a new paid role in the information value chain. Subject open dataopen data fundingfinancial sustainabilitycosts and benefits of open data To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f889044b-6b74-4d3c-89b1-cd61c4c1e119 DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-261-3_4 Publisher TMC Asser Press, The Hague Embargo date 2019-10-26 ISBN 978-94-6265-260-6 Source Open Data Exposed Series Information Technology and Law Series, 1570-2782, 30 Bibliographical note Accepted Author Manuscript Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type book chapter Rights © 2018 F.M. Welle Donker Files PDF 2018_Welle_Donker_F_Open_ ... eprint.pdf 721.44 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f889044b-6b74-4d3c-89b1-cd61c4c1e119/datastream/OBJ/view