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17 Borders in Cyberspace: Conflicting Government Information Policies and Their Economic Impacts
17 Borders in Cyberspace: Conflicting Government Information Policies and Their Economic Impacts
Pages 69-73
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To develop a method to predict monsoons the researcher develops a hypothesis that integrates American and European daily global atmospheric model output results for the past 30 years into a large global database. Those observations are compared to actual observations of what the monsoons have done over the past 30 years to tease out some trends and evidence that might allow the prediction of monsoons, which could benefit literally billions of people.
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The United States holds as a matter of both economic and political principle that "government information is a valuable national resource, and .
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The United States spends approximately twice as much of taxpayer dollars on the development of public sector government-funded information as the European Union. The return on that investment, in terms of commercial growth, job growth, and taxes paid to the treasury per dollar, is approximately five times larger in the United States than in Europe.
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Geo claims that the commercial meteorology industry in the United States is 10 times the size of the counterpart industry in the European Union due to differing data policies regarding information as an economic driver. A researcher in Great Britain who was developing a major international global database on weather and climate approached the U.S.
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There have been some reforms at the national level in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, and Germany. The United States is not alone in terms of open information policies; Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Japan have open policies as well.
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