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14. Measuring the Social and Economic Costs of Public Sector InformationOnline: A Review of the Literature and Future Directions
Pages 61-68

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... Moreover, performance within the public sector is improved, and innovative research projects are fostered. Making PSI available online benefits society through improved political transparency, enhanced educational and research opportunities, and the support of personal decision-making capabilities.
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... TABLE 1 Assessments of PSI Activities in Chronological Order, 2008-1998 Study Title Author(s) and year Models of Public Sector Information David Newbery, Lionel Bently, and Rufus Provision via Trading Funds2 Pollock.
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... Sector in the EU10 MEPSIR, Measuring European Public Makx Dekkers, Femke Polman, Robbin te Velde, Sector Information Resources11 and Marc de Vries.
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... 1998. North American-European Comparative Study on the Impact of Government Information Policy Table 2 provides an overview of the data collection and measurement techniques used in these studies.
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... Economy-wide analysis Application of Bayesian decision theory Projection, scenario analysis, expert opinion, and team consensus approaches General equilibrium model It should be noted that most of these studies did not explain in detail why a certain technique or approach was used. Collectively, the conclusion was that the economic and equity arguments concerning access to and reuse of PSI are complex and deserve considerably more analysis and policy attention.
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... Future studies should also work on improving reliability by addressing the lack of strong theoretical foundations and robust data collection. For example, the longstanding difficulty of securing the quality data needed to separate PSI-dependent sectors from the rest of the information economy (e.g., in national accounts and industrial or product classifications)
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... MEASURING THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC COSTS OF PSI ONLINE 67 6. What future directions might be pursued for the better study and measurement of access to and reuse of PSI online?
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