Capetown, 16 November 2010

On October 24-27th the conference on Scientific Data and Sustainable Development in Cape Town took place. The conference program included a session on PSI re-use (see abstract in .doc). The presentations of this PSI re-use session on the conference are now available on Slideshare.

These presentations are:

• PSI Online, measuring social and economic costs and benefits: review of the literature and future directions. By Paul Uhlir and Raed Sharif;
• PSI as the driver for socio-economic development. The case of South Africa. By Raed Sharif;
• Accessibility considerations for very large datasets. By Puneet Kishor;
• Building the Data Commons using open content licenses: some observations from the Australian experience 2005-2010. By Anne Fitzgerald;
• Public licenses for the public sector. Some experience from Taiwan. By Tyng-Ruey Chuang;
• Assessing the impact of public sector geographic information. By Max Craglia.

The slides can be viewed as well as downloaded.