The Opening Up project will open up new opportunities for businesses and governments to develop transformative services through the adoption of open data and social networking approaches. It will build upon the increasingly large amounts of valuable data created by the development of social networks as part of the shift towards open government to create new tools, devise new approaches and build the skills citizens, businesses and governments need to deliver radically different services, e-government and businesses in the North Sea Region. Through this work the project will promote significant new ways of developing, adopting and using ICT applications across the NSR.