text: government. Even ignoring data openness, this is essential for at least three other reasons. The first 
  
  is to protect a public administration from having to pay*twice*for those data, if it needs it again in 
  
  the future for some other internal activity, not explicitly mentioned in the initial contract. The 
  
  second reason is to not spend more than what is absolutely necessary to respond to public records 
  
  requests, that is to comply with Freedom of Information laws. 
  
  The final reason is to guarantee quality assurance and detection of abuses at the smallest cost, that is 
  
  sharing it with all the citizens using the public services based on those data. A real world example 
  
  of this point comes from the "Where's My Villo?" service in Brussels. Villo! is a city-wide bike- 
  
  sharing scheme started in May 2009, through a partnerships with a private company: JCDecaux 
  
  finances the infrastructure and operates it, in exchange for advertising space on the bikes 
  
  themselves and on billboards at the bike sharing stations. The availability of bikes and parking 
  
  spaces of each station is published online in real time on the official Villo's website. 
  
  When the quality of service decreased, some citizens started "Where's My Villo?", another website 