TEDTalk on Open Data with Tim Berners-Lee

"At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up."

- http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_the_year_open_data_went_worldwide.html