From the daily archives: Friday, January 23, 2009

Recent Work on Open Economics

By Rufus Pollock On January 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Over the Christmas break I had a chance to make some substantial improvements/additions to our Open Economics including:

Improved javascript graphing. Extend Millenium Development Goals package and added web interface. First efforts at ‘Where Does My Money Go’ Aim: Dig up govt finance info and visualize the results (online) http://okfn.org/wiki/projects/Where_Does_My_Money_Go

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Dutch Study on Filesharing

By Rufus Pollock On January 23, 2009 · 3 Comments

A new Dutch study on the effects of filesharing has just come out. Unfortunately it is all in dutch! However, courtesy of online translation, it appears the basic message is that filesharing has a net positive impact on welfare (though they term this the ‘economic’ impact):

File sharing has net positive economic impact

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