http://www.nuim.ie/progcity/2013/11/four-critiques-of-open-data-initiatives/
My new boss just posted this in preparation for our first project seminar organized by yours truly. We have seen some of these critiques in earlier civicaccess posts, and it is interesting to see them in one book excerpt.
The business component here in Ireland is important as Intel, IBM and to a lesser extent Accenture aim to create sensor systems for cities, or manage biometrics for the nation, or offer to sell pre-packaged smart cities out of the box systems. Then via not very well thought out procurement contracts on the gov. side, argue for exclusive access to the data they collect on behalf of the state. Eu law helps alleviate exclusive access to some extent, however, ... Irrespective, this in some cases precludes citizen access to the data, city infrastructure dashboards and other services being managed by third parties away from the power of administrator and other public servants. This begs the question of who governs.
There is some of this in Canada, think Radarsat and MDA Detwiler, and other ground station satellite services, and I have seen this with city engineering and transport contracts, but nothing quite like the scale here.
looking forward to your comments & missing geo proximity to you all!
Cheers
T
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