[LINK] Data becoming free

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

The World Bank has recently released many data sets to the public.

The World Bank Open Data: <http://data.worldbank.org> 'The Data Catalog 
provides download access to over 7,000 indicators from World Bank data 
sets.'

NYTimes (July 2): "It is a trove unlike anything else in the world, and, 
it turns out, highly valuable. For whatever its accuracy or biases, this 
data essentially defines the economic reality of billions of people and 
is used in making policies and decisions that have an enormous impact on 
their lives. The newly released data — from economic stats to numbers on 
landmines — has attracted more than 4.5 million unique views. "I’m 
astonished by the number of people apparently just waiting for our data 
to become free," says Shaida Badiee, director of the bank’s economic 
development data group. "I had no idea how big this was going to be."

Cheers,
Stephen