Reposted by DCS Heritage
Did you know UK govt has published a call for evidence on charging for public sector data, w/examples like bus timetables and environment data?
Well, here's a thing on how that will make a lot of things a bit worse and increase costs of providing public services
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Charging for public sector data is likely to cost us more than it raises
The UK government has published a call for evidence called “The marginal cost restriction on public sector data re-use”. It proposes making it easier for the public sector to charge people for public ...