Major internet companies have followed Facebook's lead

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Public access to data has become popular in the sciences (for example, some countries give direct access to their weather or health service data). In the case of businesses, Facebook is one of the first organizations to give its employees general access to company data without having to make a request or wait for authorization. This was a radical idea since the pre-existing notion was that employees would not know how to access data and would use bad data to make bad business decisions. While there were certainly turkey consumer email list challenges to overcome, Facebook found that the benefits far outweighed the costs; it became a more agile company, able to quickly build new products and respond to changes in the market. Data access has become a critical part of Facebook’s success, and it is something it continues to invest in aggressively.

Being able to use SQL to access data is an essential skill for all analysts and executives at companies like Google and LinkedIn. Non-profit organizations are also seeing huge benefits from providing access to their data. They've realized that experts outside the organization can make important discoveries. For example, the World Bank opened up its data so that volunteer groups can clean and interpret it. This has generated so much value that it created a website dedicated to public data.