2016-10-18
ZDNet, Sept 01, 2016
Sydney-based big data startup Data Republic has launched Open Data Marketplace, a digital platform for organisations to exchange data sets under the governance of strict contractual arrangements. Speaking at the 2016 Hadoop Summit in Melbourne on Wednesday, Data Republic’s CTO Ryan Peterson said the concept of the platform originally came from a philanthropic venture, with the team wanting to leverage data to help solve social issues. “What really started the business process was what we learned about social behaviours and social problems: That we couldn’t solve them because it wasn’t easy to share the data,” he explained.