Congratulations Rufus! I assume the paper cited is http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file45136.pdfblogged at http://www.rufuspollock.org/2008/03/12/models-of-public-sector-information-provision-via-trading-funds-report-published-today/
Where does the "£6billion in additional value for the UK" come from? Synergies and positive spillover benefits obviously :-) but I mean where are these explained and quantified at £6billion? Can't wait to see more studies like this and policy changes resulting from same all over the world. Mike On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Jonathan Gray <[email protected]>wrote: > Rufus Pollock's economic work mentioned on p.3 and p.5 of the > Conservative's Technology Manifesto: > > > http://www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2010/03/Conservative_Technology_Manifesto_launched.aspx > > p.3 > > "In addition, our plans to open up government data and spending > information will not only help us to cut wasteful spending, but > according to new research by Dr Rufus Pollock of Cambridge > University, the lead author of the HM Treasury report on the > economic value of open data, it will also create an estimated £6 > billion in additional value for the UK. This boost to British jobs will > come from the synergies and positive spillover benefits that result > from businesses and social entrepreneurs building new applications > and services using previously locked-up government data." > > p. 5 > > Info on new 'Right to Data' and plans to open up data on public > expenditure. > > -- > Jonathan Gray > > Community Coordinator > The Open Knowledge Foundation > http://blog.okfn.org > > http://twitter.com/jwyg > http://identi.ca/jwyg > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss >
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