This informative flyer, published under the Creative Commons CC-BY license, is available as free promotional material for anyone interested. Get the flyer, share it in your environment and promote awareness for open data and open knowledge.

The flyer provides an overview of open data from the public sector and shows how it is made available to the general public free of charge for further use. As an illustrative example, the data material on the COVID-19 pandemic is listed, which enabled more than 85 different applications and visualizations. The further processing of open data is facilitated by open and structured data formats such as CSV, JSON, XML or RDF.

Both the publishing bodies and the users benefit from sharing open data. New business models can emerge and the transparency of public institutions is promoted. The flyer shows numerous initiatives, data portals and applications from various areas that have been made possible by open data.

You can download the open data flyer here.

If you would like to print and distribute the flyer yourself, you can download a print template here.

Further documents:

• Guide to open data
• Manual for data setters V1.8
• Publication guideline Data.gv.at from 2019