London: 26 February 2010

Read the Blog and post your comments: Measuring PSI acquisition costs

European PSI Platform Guest Blogger, Christopher Corbin, describes the work of the European Commission’s PSI Group work on PSI re-use activity economic indicators. In this post, the issue of using transaction costs as an indicator is discussed including an overview of studies completed to date.

Related Blog Topics by Chris Corbin

Towards a set of PSI re-use economic indicators

Measuring Economic PSI Re-use activity

5th Anniversary of the PSI Re-use framework

Christopher Corbin is an independent researcher in the development of the emerging information and knowledge economy. He is currently an adviser to the European Public Sector Information Platform and was an analyst under the eContentplus funded ePSIplus Thematic Network (September 2006 to February 2009). He is also an expert member of the UK Advisory Panel for Public Sector Information (APPSI), member of the Open Knowledge Foundation Advisory Board (OKFN) and has worked with the OECD (Organisation for Economic C-operation and Development) on Public Sector Information initiatives.

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Related Reports

PSI Group meeting on PSI Economic Indicators, Thursday, 12th November 2009, Luxembourg