I was moved by the Olympics opening ceremony and it was great to see Tim Berners-Lee getting credit for inventing the World Wide Web. He is also an advocate of open data and is one of the main people behind, a UK Government project to open up almost all data for free re-use. This has led to some innovative and unexpected uses, such as a live London tube map (http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/) and a site to report, view, or discuss local problems in the UK (http://www.fixmystreet.com/).
The challenge for enterprises is to work out what they can share digitally to give some bright-spark the opportunity to innovate and generate some unexpected outcomes…