[okfn-discuss] what are the arguments against open data

Wed Oct 9 14:11:55 BST 2013

We have had the same difficulty with trying to get navigation 
companies to release subsets of their road network data useful for 
research...

Cheers, Bob

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Dr. Robert S. Chen
Director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network
  (CIESIN), The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Manager, NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 USA
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e-mail: bchen at ciesin.columbia.edu
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> The above is also a big challenge when trying to convince private 
> companies to release data for secondary, serendipitous public 
> goodâ€”for example, getting personal health/sensor device makers to 
> release their collections of individual data without hurting their 
> existing business models.
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> Puneet Kishor
> Science and Data Policy, Creative Commons