[open-government] References on economic and other benefits of open data, and methods to assess

Tue Nov 16 02:55:25 UTC 2010

Also Attached as pdf, I apologize for lost formatting, but I wanted to get
these to you.

Dwight Hines
Maine
USA

References for Open Gov group about economic impact Open Records Laws

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