G8 leaders (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, United Kingdom, United States, and the European Union) signed a charter on open data. The Open Data Charter sets out 5 strategic principles that all G8 members […]
McKinsey Global Institute published a report Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity that analyzes the state of digital data, how it is used in different domains in both the private and […]
At the Creating the Policy and Legal Framework for a Location-enabled Society conference in Boston, Kirk Goldsberry, who is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard, gave a fascinatng presentation with […]
On Thursday and Friday of this week the Centre for Spatial Law and Policy is co-hosting a conference with Harvard University’s Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA), Berkman Center of Internet and Society and Belfer Center […]
The principle of free and open access to government geospatial data has been adopted by many governments including US Federal, Canada, Japan, South Africa, Brazil, California, and by the City of Vancouver and other cities. […]
Google released a report What is the economic impact of Geo services ? earlier this year prepared by Oxera Consulting Ltd in the UK. What are geospatial services ? Oxera incuded all interactive digital mapping […]
According to a report by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) the geospatial services industry in the United States generates annual revenues of $75 billion annually. That is about 0.5 % of the US GDP. The […]
Two countries, Australia and New Zealand, have commissioned studies to estimate the contribution of geospatial data and technology to the national economy. Canada has just announced the award of a similar project to a team that […]