If you are interested in getting started on your Open Data initiative, or would like to review your current implementation, contact us at info@ibitcon.com. You can visit our website at iBIT Integrated Business IT Consultants, LLC... In order to measure the value of making open data available to public users (individuals and businesses), information needs to be collected to understand "who" is using "what" data. While this would seem to be counter intuitive to making data freely available to anyone without knowledge of who the entity using the data is or how they might be using it, it is a necessary requirement of the public data ecosystem to make sure that both publishers and consumers gain value from making the data available for public use. In order to measure the potential value of public data usage, it must be monitored. To that end, to measure the financial impact to the government entity providing the data, and assurance that data will continue to be made available to users of..