paul reynolds

Greetings from NZ and congratulations on making both this blog and your thoughts available online. PSI should be available as a public/economic good. However, of equal interest is not just the terms of use as prescribed in a copyright statement, or indeed the format of the information, but how readily the data sets are " ready to hand", to use that old Heidegger term. In short equal consideration needs to given to making new kinds of re-use tools and frameworks available as an additional public good. And yes, for sure, open API's are also a key part of the mix - but it's also important that when making the latter available to those with the technical skills to benefit from them, we don't loose sight of the risk of disenfranchising those without such skills or resources to use the data thats been liberated. In short - its great to see the prospect of the doors to the PSI grain stores opening - but we need buckets, shovels, carts - a transport system and a whole bunch of other tools to ensure that that this creates a social and democratic benefit as well as an economic one. www.peoplepoints.co.nz