What a useful bit of soft power. Denmark is being talked about on an influential Internet forum. People on HN usually complain about how bad governments are at makig data open. Here is an example of a government making data open and doing fun silly things with it.
The cost ofthe project is probably minimal compared to other government spending and has had a reasonable impact.
The children using this Mincraft world will grow up to do other neat things.
That is exactly the same argument that was made when Sweden made a virtual embassy in Second Life. Not convinced that it benefited anyone except the programmers.
And also, I'm not making an argument against open data.
The cost ofthe project is probably minimal compared to other government spending and has had a reasonable impact.
The children using this Mincraft world will grow up to do other neat things.