Open data challenges the curriculum

Abstract

This article explores some of the dominating characteristics of open data expansion and in its impact on the curricula of business and economics programs in higher educations institutions. The presented phenomena are based on findings by the author and elaborated during workshops in development project «Improving the competitiveness of economic graduates-economists based on the principles of the Bologna process» (ICEG) at Institute of Economy and Trade of the Tajik State University of Commerce (IET TSUC) Tajikistan. Data as competitive advantage, transformation of data to knowledge and selected aspects of open data and free software constitute the main perspectives of this article. Concluding remarks contain recommendations on how open data and data-analytics should be taken into account when higher education syllabi are developed.