We live in quite extraordinary times. We live at a moment where many of the most important politicians in our country and in some others overseas are actually eager to stand up and say that open data is an important priority for them, and for their nations. Just pause and think about it for a second: politicians! Talking about data! At all!

via Premise: Open Data: How Not To Cock It Up.

See DataSF for a great example of open data provided by a (municipal) government and some of the projects citizens have been rolling out with the said data.