Princeton Researchers Say Feds Need Data Standard

dcblogs writes "The federal government's data-sharing efforts are a mess, and if Barack Obama really wants a useful 'Google for government,' he would have to set the government's vast amount of data free by exposing it and ensuring it complies to standards. Once that happens, commercial sites, aggregators, bloggers and everyone else will be able to access it, use it and transform it, argue a group of Princeton researchers (follow Download link for full PDF)."

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[Hurricane78]

Well... the EU, Australia and Japan/Korea would shit in their pants (because they would become the non-believing axis or evil,
and China and Cuba would come all over the place from having a new ally.
Everyone else would not care and say "same old shit, different day".

On the other hand, as the EU imitates the US in every aspect they can, maybe they would simply become communist too, just in a more bureaucratic way... Hey, in EU's government, because of their bureaucracy, communism could actually work. ;)