My personal opinion: stop focusing on the technology of how to put it out there and just put it out there. Another API is another API that open data developers

My personal opinion: stop focusing on the technology of how to put it out there and just put it out there. Another API is another API that open data developers need to work with, which may or may not be better than any of the existing solutions (Data.json, CKAN, ESRI, the UN data platform, etc). If they really want to create open government, just post up the raw files on an ftp server and open it to the public. Edit: a typo