Comments on: Democratising change, innovation and data http://idealgovernment.com/2006/03/democratising_change_innovation_and_data/ What do we want from Internet-age government? Wouldn't it be better if... Wed, 14 May 2014 08:35:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: stefan http://idealgovernment.com/2006/03/democratising_change_innovation_and_data/comment-page-1/#comment-747 Thu, 09 Mar 2006 05:37:13 +0000 http://democratising_change_innovation_and_data#comment-747 I am certain that government is not adding to its useful data at 66% a year – but then I am pretty certain that not many other organisations (or individuals for that matter) are either. The elision from “data” to “useful data” is a pretty important one.

As Kelly himself recognises, a lot of this is a function of storage power and costs. As anybody who has ever moved house knows, posessions expand to fill 105% of total available storage space. Given the growth of storage capacity and bandwidth, the growth in stuff stored is not a great surprise. Much more interesting – and much more subtle – to measure the growth in value.

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