Rufus Pollock's economic work mentioned on p.3 and p.5 of the Conservative's Technology Manifesto:
http://www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2010/03/Conservative_Technology_Manifesto_launched.aspx p.3 "In addition, our plans to open up government data and spending information will not only help us to cut wasteful spending, but according to new research by Dr Rufus Pollock of Cambridge University, the lead author of the HM Treasury report on the economic value of open data, it will also create an estimated £6 billion in additional value for the UK. This boost to British jobs will come from the synergies and positive spillover benefits that result from businesses and social entrepreneurs building new applications and services using previously locked-up government data." p. 5 Info on new 'Right to Data' and plans to open up data on public expenditure. -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://blog.okfn.org http://twitter.com/jwyg http://identi.ca/jwyg _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
