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Data as infrastructure

Paper by Kawalek & Bayat on the case for open data.

Tagged: Digital & Data

The National Infrastructure Commission appointed Dr Peter Kawalek (Director of the Centre for Information Management at Loughborough University) and Ali Bayat (Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester) to explore the case for considering data as Infrastructure.
This paper is one of four pieces of external research commissioned to support Data for the Public Good, the final report of the Commission’s New Technology study.

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