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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Open data released by Statistics Netherlands – rated second in the world behind Denmark in open data inventory – saw a surge to 3.2 million open data retrievals in the second quarter of 2018 alone <a href="https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/corporate/2018/31/explosive-growth-in-use-of-cbs-open-data">https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/corporate/2018/31/explosive-growth-in-use-of-cbs-open-data</a>, especially in the private sector where its use may raise some interesting public policy issues for students to explore. </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Some young researchers from the Netherlands Statistics CBS group also participated in an innovative professional learning opportunity, the hackatrain event while enroute to a conference in Berlin: <a href="https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/corporate/2018/28/hackatrain-creative-mobility-solutions">https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/corporate/2018/28/hackatrain-creative-mobility-solutions</a>. </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A cool idea might be to put out a challenge to design an updated version of <b><i>The National Dream: The Great “Digital” Highway 2020 to 2030</i></b><i>. </i>It might make for an interesting “participatory” narrative. </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jonathan </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>