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And they listened. \n+\n+On Saturday 24th October, across Cape Town, Durban and Pretoria, citizens chose to spend their weekend surfacing interesting, socially relevant stories from a selection of over 400 [open data](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data) datasets. These datasets are part of the collection which will ultimately become [South Africa's National Open Data Portal](http://dgz.code4sa.org). There is a global realisation of the [value](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/meetings/20140128-appsi-what-is-the-value-of-open-data.pdf) of open data, not only from a [transparency](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transparency-and-open-data), [accountability](https://okfn.org/opendata/why-open-data/citizenship-and-governance/) and [citizen empowerment](http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2014/07/31/empowering-the-citizen-the-endless-opportunities-of-open-data/) perspective, but also in terms of [economic value](http://beyondtransparency.org/chapters/part-3/generating-economic-value-through-open-data/). If we consider all benefits along with the fact that [South Africa has taken over as chair](http://www.sanews.gov.za/world/sa-takes-over-open-government-partnership-chair) of the [Open Government Partnership](http://www.opengovpartnership.org/) it certainly seems that the long awaited South African Data Revolution is imminent. 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