Also interesting to me in the debate over open/not open is the role of the Citizen.
In the monetization scheme, Government profits and Corporate bids but the Individual gets no say. >From Haiti to Whitehall, the person being traded, the creator of this data >that now has value to Facebook and Big Finance for which they are able to >extract and resell enough times to really bring to question our premise of >data ownership. I want a percentage of every transaction that watches my data go from one database to another. I feel that I have the right inherently in my person to decide which for-profit organization is able to purchase the fruits of MY life. Government has the duty to protect me and provide services that I pay for through taxes. Thats about it. SO becoming a broker against my will is to pervert the relationship. Open Data is excellent in principle and in most cases, but it is disheartening to see that individual citizen's rarely make it to the negotiating table. om _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
