Microsoft has called on governments and companies around the world to share more of their data with other organisations to prevent what it warned would be a concentration of digital power in the hands of the US, China and a small number of giant tech companies. The software company on Tuesday threw its weight fully behind the “open data” movement, which involves making data available to be shared and reused by others, in much the way that open source software has transformed the way some computer code is produced. It said it would collaborate with other organisations on opening some of its own data for wider use, while creating standardised tools and legal frameworks to make it easier for others to follow suit. Read More...
Microsoft has called on governments and companies around the world to share more of their data with other organisations to prevent what it warned would be a concentration of digital power in the hands of the US, China and a small number of giant tech companies. The software company on Tuesday threw its weight fully behind the “open data” movement, which involves making data available to be shared and reused by others, in much the way that open source software has transformed the way some computer code is produced. It said it would collaborate with other organisations on opening some of its own data for wider use, while creating standardised tools and legal frameworks to make it easier for others to follow suit.
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