The the only sentiment I take from the article is that wealthy countries are open with their data compared to poorer countries, which author seems to believe, a

The the only sentiment I take from the article is that wealthy countries are open with their data compared to poorer countries, which author seems to believe, are intentionally hiding things. That does not sit well with me. I'm from Canada and have spent a decade making use of gov't data and while Canada does open up a bunch of it, 90% of what they open is benign. The important data, or rather the data which would expose problems, is kept from the public. These wealthy countries also have other ways to hide even the open data from prying eyes, they simply charge high prices for the data. This easily prevents the general public, who would use the data more critically, from actually using the data.