text: thing to do is to*create*data, normally through outsourcing and crowd sourcing. 
  
  Other issues, that will be discussed in detail in other sections of the report because they are also 
  
  present in Europe in different forms, are related to lack of equal opportunities for access to data and 
  
  serious fears (sometimes, concrete, sometimes caused by confusion about what should be open and 
  
  how) that data will be used*against*citizens. A commenter to Gurstein's Open Data: Empowering 
  
  the Empowered or Effective Data Use for Everyone? said: 
  
  *in Delhi and Mumbai, mobs and rioters managed to get information about particular*
  *identity groups through voter rolls: openness is, in certain situations, a precarious*
  *virtue. It is almost certain that Open Data would be used to rig election but here again*
  *openness is not the issue, they would find it anyway...*
  
  So far, the main interest about Open Data in Asian countries seems limited, so to speak, to its 
  
  effects on transparency in politics. At a two-weeks programming contest held at the end of 2010 in 
  
  Thailand, for example, one of the most appreciated entries was a software scraper of the Thailand's 
  
  Member of House of Representative Website, that made it possible for everybody to create 