Tim Berners-Lee, the computer scientist known for inventing the world wide web, remembered Swartz as someone who wanted to change the world to make public data open to the public.

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Labor groups would like to make this information open to the public so workers will also know if their factories are safe, but retailers have resisted amid worries about lawsuits.

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Now, other councils across Wales say they are looking to make their meetings more widely open to the public without the need to attend.

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Although the area around the stadium will not be open to the public until Spring 2014 because of construction work, the LLDC is keen to make sure sport gets a high-profile place in the stadium.

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But unlike those projects, OONI uses only open-source software and plans to make the raw data gathered by its tools public and accessible to any researcher.

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Back in Dover, the new partnership is struggling to find ways of deterring self-styled "urban explorers", who make a hobby out of defying padlocks and bars to gain access to places not open to the public.

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By failing to make a strong, public case for open markets, he is storing up trouble for the future.

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In recognition of this effort, we have to accept that up until now the guiding concept behind it has been public access and promoting open knowledge, so the major challenge that the government is now facing is to mobilise the commitments made in the Paris Declaration and make the leap between public and open.

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