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18. Conflicting International Public Sector Information Policies and their Effects on the Public Domain and the Economy
18. Conflicting International Public Sector Information Policies and their Effects on the Public Domain and the Economy
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These numbers show that the Internet revolution and the ability to use government information as an input to value-added commercial products has been a significant economic boon. Focusing on one particular sector of information, meteorological and related environmental information, we know that the weather and climate impact about a third of the gross domestic product of the United States, about $3 trillion.
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The United States follows a policy that encourages, even sometimes forces, federal agencies actively to disseminate that information to all comers, so that we can have, for example, database industries, more robust publishing industries, commercial meteorology firms like the Weather Channel, or weather risk management firms that are selling new forms of insurance. European government restrictions on dissemination and use of publicsector information are thwarting the kind of economic development in these sectors that we have already seen in the United States.
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The European Commission commissioned that seminal study previously described. They have recently released two very interesting documents, one from the Directorate General for the Information Society on a more open public-sector information policy and one from the Directorate General on the Environment espousing an open policy for environmental data.4 A draft directive on the "Re-use and commercial exploitation of public sector documents" is quite broad, encompassing most public-sector data and information not otherwise protected due to privacy or security considerations.
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size with the accompanying revenue generation and job growth. A significant contributor to these disparities is a difference in information policies between the United States and Europe.
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