Many governments are making an increasing amount of data accessible to citizens and other interested parties. One common source for accessing the data of various governments is through the federal government’s Open Government portal at www.data.gov.

Required

Access the Open Government website using the URL provided to answer the following questions:

a. Why is data.gov important?

b. What governments provide data to data.gov?

c. Go to one of the cities providing data and list the types of data that are available for viewing from that city.