[P2P-F] New report about Open Data for an Open Society

Thu Jan 13 03:57:46 CET 2011

Thanks Marco, it's already on Ning and our wiki, and I'm asking Chris to
also publish the announcement on our regular blog.

Please feel free to update the entry here for future reference:
http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Data,_Open_Society

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 3:14 AM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Open Data, Open Society is a report I wrote for the Institute of
> Economics of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. The report represents the
> first part of a research project (1) financed through the DIME
> (Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe), as part of DIME Work
> Package 6.8, coordinated by Professor Giulio Bottazzi.
>
> The report discusses the current and potential role, in a truly open
> society, of raw Public Sector Information (PSI) that is really open,
> that is fully accessible and reusable by everybody. The general
> characteristics of PSI and the conclusions are based on previous
> studies and on the analysis of current examples both from the European
> Union and the rest of the world.
>
> The full report is released under a Creative Commons cc-by license (2)
> and can be freely downloaded as a single file in HTML or PDF format
> from the websites of DIME (3) and of the Sant'Anna school (4). In
> order to facilitate as much as possible feedback and discussion on
> each single part, the whole report, split in separate pages with
> comments open to anonymous readers, is also available online at
>
> http://stop.zona-m.net/2011/01/the-open-data-open-society-report-2/
>
> The "Open Data, Open Society" project will continue with an online
> survey that will attempt to assess how many types of raw PSI are
> already released, in which formats and under which licenses, by the
> city and regional administration of the EU-15 countries. A final
> report will summarize and comment the results of the survey.  For more
> information please contact:
>
> Prof. Giulio Bottazzi g.bottazzi at ssup.it
> Marco Fioretti mfioretti at nexaima.net
>
> Thanks in advance for forwarding this announcement to whoever it may
> concern.
>
>        Best Regards,
>                        Marco Fioretti
>
> 1) http://stop.zona-m.net/?p=52
> 2) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
> 3) http://www.dime-eu.org/editions
> 4) http://www.lem.sssup.it/books.html
>
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