[okfn-discuss] [open-economics] Open Knowledge Index

Wed Aug 24 17:49:43 UTC 2011

On 24 August 2011 18:20, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> wrote:
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>> Hi Guo,
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>> This is brilliant -- well done to you and everyone else and sorry I
>> only caught the very end of this. Strongly suggest you put up a blog
>> post on http://blog.okfn.org about the hack-day and the results and
>> look forward to taking this further ...
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> I agree this is brilliant. Two points:
>  * I would like to know how the index is actually calculated. I would have
> thought it was difficult to know what knowledge was potentially available
> from which to calculate the openness. I was surprised to see the relatively
> low position of Canada.
>  * the technical details link failed for me.

Worked for me. It's here:

<http://openeconomics.net/open-knowledge-indicator/technical-details/>

This gives full details of method of computation I believe.

Rufus