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.