[Aust-NZ] [Fwd: Fee vs Free]

[Cameron Shorter]

Our Canadian friends,
I wonder whether anyone can answer Bruce's query below. We putting a 
proposal together to encourage the Australian Government to free up 
their Geospatial data.

Bruce Bannerman wrote:
> There is a slide that I've seen relating to the Canadian SDI and the
> dramatic increase in downloads of data in the twelve month period after
> data was made free for download.
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> http://www.thinkwell.ca/cgdi-icdg/libraryDocs/FeevsFree.pdf 
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> It shows an increase from around 96,000 to > 5.4 Million downloads in
> that period.
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> Can anyone point me to some studies that support the claim made in this
> slide please?
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> Bruce Bannerman
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