-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 23/07/13 19:33, Mikael "MMN-o" Nordfeldth wrote: > PSI is Public Sector Information. It's the common term in European > politics on the subject of open data within the public sector. > > Usually it implies that any data a public sector organisation has > or publishes should be freely licensed and available in a "raw > form" (machine-readable format), to as low a cost as possible (to > lower the threshold of using it): > > http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/index_en.htm > > Oddly enough, it's a quite popular thing within the European > Union, despite its other attempts to destroy free flow of > information.
Perhaps that's not so odd if we consider who's in a position to make effective use of a giant blob of machine-readable data. Is it (a) the average citizen, or (b) the consulting company set up by the former public servant who collected that data? Cheers, Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEbBAEBAgAGBQJR8DWRAAoJEBEET9GfxSfMrcwH9RQZ5Cty7Gtsypnhx6dX4jqa C5gWdj8Z+dcQqcO2KrIQ/znPj492hEsKr/jo+DmoyHXCI8na7zQcoRUmPm34WlVg 5q24QRhGlLoqOYmONdwttt3vNU/q3Y+FxZgyUh8h4iKCkpaToz5z+m131WzGSnqO o3zRKhUebmeHsrUpCQuMAZ5iTuE4qGFn6G/ddJ/EX+CkMrle/w5QnJr8uVCyg4eb /ax1h1iqoEJRmLpec2CO0LNs/ud3XXtil3OrGYJFf55W00v2gfPRTDtfDpu6YSHx T/EoKejEmw1Da8jQScaD+xyaSkRfvMiAE4tJFN3idqEP8vSZqfG0Q0myENwfag== =seGO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
