Who to feed? The open vs. the commercial race for data

May / 12 / 2011

Google Maps has been an incredible service in the past years. Not only it was Google’s engineers, who invented the slippy map, which revolutionized digital maps, but its approach to offer such a service for free and shock competitors with a free routing service. Google has a tremendous overview on all activities on the Internet; [...]

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What can we learn from Africa on the use of mobiles for social/digital inclusion?

Feb / 01 / 2011

David Wilcox asked me on Quora this question, which I also want to publish as a response here to discuss the topic further. Would be great to get some more thoughts on that topic from you. I imagine we can learn a lot from digital inclusion in Africa. Here are some points: The art of improvisation When [...]

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Revenue? Examples of nonprofit or business model for open data

Jan / 20 / 2011

As open data becomes more popular, I wonder where are the nonprofit and business models for open data? It is clear that somehow open data needs to generate revenues, because it will not only work with voluntary efforts. I did a little research to find interesting approaches to do more with open data.

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