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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6. Public Sector Information: Why Bother?
6. Public Sector Information: Why Bother?
Pages 25-28
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Why? The answer is that in the United States you have an open access model, and in the European Union you have a cost recovery model.
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Because the United States has a much stronger private information industry, there is more of a mature demand for PSI. And there may another factor: that Americans are just better at exploiting information services, whether in the private or public sector.
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The public sector is doing some interesting things, such as giving away its information freely, and the private sector has its own goods that it makes available freely, such as open source software. So the market for private sector resusers of PSI may be getting smaller.
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How then does one determine the overall total economic value of PSI -- including its wider societal value? This depends, really, upon the view of the citizen.
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