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Free and unrestricted Public Sector Information: Study finds benefits outweigh costs
by Timothy Vollmer UncategorizedGovernments around the world are increasingly relying on open licenses to release public sector information (PSI). A September 2011 report titled Costs and Benefits of Data Provision, prepared by John Houghton for the Australian National Data Service, examines the immediate and wider economic costs and benefits to making PSI available. The key takeaway from the…