In this episode of Open Gov Stories, Joel discusses working on consumer rights in the telecom industry and how fighting one woman's $300,000 phone bill helped pass game-changing protections for consumers in the US. He then discusses his role becoming a leader in the movement to promote open data and what he hopes the future will hold for open government data being a powerful public resource.

Joel Gurin is founder and head of the Center for Open Data Enterprise, and author of Open Data Now.

Nada Zohdy is Director of the Open Gov Hub.