The Power of Open
summary
Government-funded platforms produce usable public goods but often lack maintenance, usability, and reinvestment: NOAA: 20–40 TB/day ingested with petabytes processed, much untapped, Census: 500+ attributes covering ~324M people and shrinking service when underfunded, BEA: GDP plus regional input–output multipliers powering economic models, IHME: global health metrics informing policy. Claim: data exists and powers industries, tools are legacy and brittle, only a few firms monetize them, and persistent underfunding means delivery rarely feeds back to improve the Commons.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 3:28Arpanet
- 5:18Current Cycle of Innovation
- 7:17Global Weather Industry
- 8:02Current Situation
- 13:34Measures the health of the US economy.
- 14:54Global Burden of Disease • Provides comprehensive picture of what disables and kills people across countries, time, age, and sex
- 16:09The Digital Commons
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