Iāve been in open data movement slightly less than a decade, and I donāt know what is the problem with trust there. What governmental bodies manipulate the data to get the desired outcomes? Well, the open data doesnāt guarantee that they are doing a good job, especially if there is a conflict of interest - like providing the data and finding the source of income to sustain the activities for keep the data updated. So one need to ensure there is no conflict of interest, and if there is, the open data could be easier to cross-check than some closed research. Just because something is open, doesnāt bring trust - there should be people behind it to trust.
In our open data community we faced the same sustainability problem - updating the data needs time. Usually collecting the data is a fun one time activity for some idea or a project, but when it comes to updating many open data feeds that are not extracted from some gov DB automatically, it becomes too demanding for a non-compensated activity.
My point is that the practical value proposition of āopennessā in a blockchain ā just like government data and OSS and anything else ā is not sufficient to realize grandiose claims of generativity. A distributed ledger may or may not ultimately be useful for any given community purpose, but it certainly isnāt immediately and inherently useful. This stuff is not magic.