Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] How to quantify the economic impact of OSGeo software? Your help needed for a research article

2015-06-05 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Suchith Anand wrote: > The missed economic and innovation opportunities are too big to be > quantified. Students instead of being developed as creative innovative minds > and future innovators turn to be just users of a particular properitory > software. I thin

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] How to quantify the economic impact of OSGeo software? Your help needed for a research article

2015-06-04 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Margherita, Your points have helped to distill the essense of this excellently and i couldn't agree more "The hidden cost, however, is the missed empowerment of a generation, that will most likely depend upon the software that they have learned to use at school. How would you quantify this e

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] How to quantify the economic impact of OSGeo software? Your help needed for a research article

2015-06-04 Thread Margherita Di Leo
Suchith, On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Suchith Anand < suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote: > Very good point and here is where we need help (maybe from an Economics > expert). > > There are many studies already done which we can build upon. For example > the Economic impact of open source so

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] How to quantify the economic impact of OSGeo software? Your help needed for a research article

2015-06-04 Thread Suchith Anand
Very good point and here is where we need help (maybe from an Economics expert). There are many studies already done which we can build upon. For example the Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sect