When you’re dealing with a flooding emergency in the middle of the worst drought for many years, the last thing you need is barriers to the sharing of geographical and meteorological information.
Yet that’s the situation faced by Australia. The authorities’ response is to consider the widespread adoption of Creative Commons licences for public-sector information.
From The Guardian UK, via Free Our Data.
This encapsulates, to me, the most compelling argument for free data. That getting access to data helps us better solve problems; barriers to data make for a less innovative, less healthy country.
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March 2, 2012 at 2:56 pm
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It sounds like you’re creating problems yourself by trying to solve this issue instead of looking at why their is a problem in the first place