Why Free Government Data Remains A Tough Sell

InformationWeek: CloudOpen data advocates tout free government data as one of the world's great resources for fueling innovation and economic growth. However, despite some early successes in helping entrepreneurs turn data into dollars, White House efforts to jump-start an open data economy are taking longer than administration officials had hoped. And some experts worry that not enough attention is being paid to who will pay for hosting and sustaining the coming flood of data.

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