Borders In Cyberspace

Cost Recovery Experiments in Europe not Successful

•UK Meteorological Office

–50% of total revenue comes from Ministry of Defence, 30% from other government agencies.

–Revenue from data sales not significant, causing some categories of observational data to be made open and unrestricted.

•British Ordnance Survey

–10% of total revenues comes from HM Treasury

–Only 32% of total revenues comes from sales to the private sector. The other 68% comes from mandatory use of data by utilities and sale to government entities.

•Deutscher Wetterdienst

–Only 1% of operating costs covered by data sales