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

Wed Oct 9 11:49:50 UTC 2013

On 8 Oct 2013, at 09:26, William Waites wrote:

> There was an argument made somewhere that was recounted to me by
> Ewan. It had to do with the long view of privatising public sector
> contracts.

This is an argument that should be credited to others. See for example this post by Tony Hirst:

http://blog.ouseful.info/2013/08/14/some-sketchnotes-on-a-few-of-my-concerns-about-opendata/

Also, work by Jo Bates, e.g.,

http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/845/916

--Ewan

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