I have to admit that I like a lot of what Mr. Macmillan just had to say. I think it starts from a presumption that it's open, full stop. Once you start from the presumption that access to our democratic institutions is going to be open, everything follows from there.
We've seen that happen in other countries that have adopted that position, particularly the United States. It's startling to see a country go from virtually zero data set availability to hundreds of thousands in the span of 18 months or less. It's literally been just a matter of months--less than two years--based on the presumption, the starting point, that it's open, and that if it's not going to be open, you have to justify why. As I think was rightly noted, once you start with the presumption that it's going to be available unless there's some powerful reason that it shouldn't be, you open up your government and you open up all sorts of opportunities, whether we're talking about democratic accountability or the economic potential we just heard about.