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The Socioeconomic Effects of Public Sector Information on Digital Networks Toward a Better Understanding of Different Access and Reuse Policies: Workshop Summary (2009) / Chapter Skim
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4. The Value to Industry of PSI: The Business Sector Perspective
Pages 10-16

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... MICUS plans to publish three studies in 2008: Business Models for German Companies in International GeoInformation Markets; The Impact of Broadband and Growth in Productivity; and The Assessment of the Reuse of Public Sector Information in the Geographical Information, Meteorological Information, and Legal Information Sectors. What are the problems in obtaining PSI in Germany today?
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From page 11...
... There have been two other interesting acquisitions in the industry. Pitney Bowes bought MapInfo, a geomarketing software company, and Microsoft just bought Multimap, a Web map provider, for two to five times the annual sales.
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From page 12...
... This unrecognized potential includes statistical information that has not yet been marketed. The second square holds a question mark representing a situation characterized by the question, Why do we see high prices but low availability and low quality of services?
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From page 13...
... There is a huge unexploited potential with a high economic impact. Exploiting the potential in the PSI market requires lower pricing and less restrictive licensing agreements.
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From page 14...
... So I would offer the message of thinking in these terms about the value derived from making the work of public sector organizations freely available. For a public sector body, or at least for the Commission, talking about a business model seems inappropriate, because we are not a commercial business.
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From page 15...
... One of the experiences we have had with geographical information in the European Union, for instance, is that there have been a number of public-private partnerships working since the mid-1990s, and they have been fairly successful in terms of their data quality and the distribution of data among the major players. When one has established successful models like that, however, changing them later on to allow access for everybody and dismantle the barriers inevitably put up by the public-private partnership can lead to a problem.
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... When the DWD could not determine the price at which to make the data available to the private meteorological data providers, the private data providers built their own grid of weather stations. This experience led to some critical discussions about public monopolies and the power of a natural monopoly in setting prices.
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Key Terms

  • business models
  • value chain
  • tele atlas
  • meteorological data
  • business model

  • legal information
  • geographical information
  • psi market
  • management consulting
  • private data

  • private meteorological
  • public body
  • innovative business
  • psi reuse
  • sector information

  • data providers
  • market price
  • market studies
  • navigation market
  • weather stations

  • stations maintained
  • licensing models
  • low prices
  • natural monopoly
  • successful public

  • public services
  • public authorities
  • public bodies
  • public monopoly
  • geographical psi


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