Tonight I have an immense desire to blog. It’s been months I have not been blogging, but today some information that reached me via my Yahoo Pipes and Twitter folks pushed me to blog. In fact what I want to share now is something that I had in mind for quite some time already. I […]

Recently the city of Rennes announced some open data initiatives. While browsing around, I’ve recently discovered some useful resources, particularly the consistent “Models of Public Sector Information Provision via Trading Funds” (2008) report by Prof. Bently, Prof. Newbery and R. Pollock (all from Cambridge University).
This report happens to be extremely useful for making sense of […]

Another element that is worth noting in the  “Models of Public Sector Information Provision via Trading Funds” (2008) report is that one of the reason for open data is public administration reform.
As the report notes, ‘trading funds’ were created in the UK to be financially sound and self-sustainable, not that they had to make […]

After Open Source, Open Data is trendy. Governments are revamping their public service information policies, robust and commonly accepted standards of data emerge, results blossom.
As a said in a previous post, the public service is at the forefront, not the private sector. The two major reasons are financial - it is an opportunity to […]

In a previous post I have written that the open data and reform of public service initiatives are creating a market of data. Such a market is like any other market. It is very much influenced by the personal ideological background and agenda of people in command. In the particular case of the market of […]