What I do is I differentiate between open data strategies and proper open data practices. What we're seeing is that some countries are supporting open data activities, but those open data strategies are not necessarily effective. For example, you might have specific countries that are publishing datasets that they simply have no need for. They conduct inventories of the data that they're holding and they're saying they don't really need this data, but before destroying it, they'll just publish it as open data and look really good doing it. That's not necessarily helpful or effective. In many European countries they're actually saying that this is anonymized transactional data that is in fact leading to added intelligence, not just for the creation of apps that we can sell for 99ยข for someone to make money off of, but for law enforcement to say that there's a tangible trend and there's a rate at which people in specific vulnerable sectors are clicking on different things. This was shared by organizations, by associations, by advertising councils and bodies, and that is useful. So I encourage the definition of open data in general versus effective open data sharing.
On February 23rd, 2015. See this statement in context.