[p2p-research] Fwd: 30 fold return on government provided data in the public domain

Michel Bauwens michelsub2004 at gmail.com
Fri May 29 06:43:18 CEST 2009


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From: James Boyle <boyle at law.duke.edu>
Date: Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: 30 fold return on government provided data in the public domain
To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>


 You are welcome!  You might also want to look at the "Further Reading" for
my book

*http://www.thepublicdomain.org/download/further-reading-collected/*<http://www.thepublicdomain.org/download/further-reading-collected/>

and of course all the citations etc are in the footnotes..

*
http://www.thepublicdomain.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/thepublicdomain.html
*<http://www.thepublicdomain.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/thepublicdomain.html>


>>> On 5/28/2009 at 12:55 AM, in message <
c776300b0905272155m4c10894cqa05cd2e9385e4ba4 at mail.gmail.com>, Michel Bauwens
<michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi James,

This is very useful, many thanks!!

Michel

  On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 6:52 PM, James Boyle

<boyle at law.duke.edu>

wrote:

>  Hi Michael, great to hear from you.
>
> A good starting place is Peter Weiss, “Borders in Cyberspace: Conflicting
> Government Information Policies and their Economic Impacts,” in Open Access
> and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science:
> Proceedings of an International Symposium (Washington, D.C.: National
> Academies Press, 2004), 69–73. He is quoting the PIRA study.
>
> I think you can find an ungated version here *
> http://www.primet.org/documents/weiss%20-%20borders%20in%20cyberspace.htm*<http://www.primet.org/documents/weiss%20-%20borders%20in%20cyberspace.htm> but
> I don't know if it is complete.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Warm regards, Jamie
>
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> >>> On 5/27/2009 at 12:55 AM, in message <
> c776300b0905262155r57781a75mf6b5ebf75d1e06ec at mail.gmail.com>, Michel
> Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Dear James,
>
> I tremendously enjoyed your recent talk on Open Innovation at Nesta (
> http://www.nesta.org.uk/james-boyle-open-ip/?playvideo=1 ) as well as your
> article in the Financial Times at
> http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/501df49e-2f7c-11de-a8f6-00144feabdc0.html
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> In this article you mention an important figure:
>
> "*We know that the United States’ experiments with freely providing
> publicly generated data -- on everything from weather to roads to navigation
> -- yield an incredible economic return. More than 30-fold by some estimates
> *."
>
> Would it be possible to send me (us) a reference to such estimates? The P2P
> Foundation is about to help UK-based academics to create a worldwide network
> for peer production oriented researchers, and such data would be much
> appreciated,
>
> Michel Bauwens
>
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http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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