[GSDI Legal Econ] Fw: GSDI Legal and Economic Working Group draft report

Mon Dec 4 04:49:57 EST 2006

Dear all,
I'm following up on the message I sent on November 18th, in which I asked for comments on the GSDI Legal and Economic Working Group 2007 work plan.  Comments/suggestions are still welcome, but just.  Roger Longhorn and I will need to finalize the report for the GSDI Board. So, if you meant to reply, but didn't yet get around to it, please provide your input today or tomorrow.
Regards,
Kate 

P.S.  A workshop I mentioned in conjunction with research that I'm doing on SDI performance measurement will take place in 2007, and I would like to see GSDI co-sponsoring the workshop (modestly, given limited budget), as well as hosting a webpage on SDI performance measurement within the GSDI legal and economic working group web pages, http://gsdidocs.org/lewg/GII_research.htm.

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Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 7:02:53 PM
Subject: [GSDI Legal Econ] GSDI Legal and Economic Working Group draft report

Greetings to all,

(please bear with me... as this is a long message)

We had a well-attended Working Group open meeting last week (Nov. 9th) in Chile, which hopefully is a sign for more dynamic participation for the coming year.  

First, I'd like to acknowledge Bas Kok, who has Chaired this Working Group for the past decade, and who will be stepping down, but Bas has indicated that he will still contribute to the Group.  So, thank you, Bas.  And we also need to welcome Roger Longhorn, who will be the new Co-Chair.  A hearty welcome to Roger, whom many of you may already know, from his contributions to the GSDI Legal and Economic Disucssion list, http://www.gsdi.org/discussionlists.asp, and to the European GI Policy Discussion List, http://www.ec-gis.org/egip/.

Please find attached the draft 2006 report for the Working Group; it summarizes proposed activities for between now and the next GSDI conference.  The emphasis for activities is on improving mechanisms for dialogue and information exchange. Those who were unable to attend the open meeting are encouraged now to review the report and provide further input/ideas.  And those who did participate, please provide edits if the report does not properly reflect what was discussed. Note that the Legal and Economic Working Group can propose activities to the Board that require modest financial support from the GSDI Association.  A final report should be submitted to the GSDI Board by December 15th. So, please, send comments/edits/suggestions by December 4th, preferrably to the Legal and Economic Discussion List.   To send messages to the list, you first must subscribe.  You may also email Roger and me directly, lancekt AT aya.yale.edu, ral AT alum.mit.edu (but this is not the perferred
 route, since others then won't have the opportunity to hear your comments).

For the time being, the Legal and Economic Working Group will rely upon the existing Discussion List,
http://www.gsdi.org/discussionlists.asp.  If you have not already signed up for the Discussion List, please do so, since this provides the easiest way for Working Group members to communicate with each other.  I believe you can choose whether to receive individual messages, a weekly digest, or just to view the messages online in the public archives.  
http://lists.gsdi.org/mailman/listinfo/legal-econ  (Discussion List)
http://lists.gsdi.org/pipermail/legal-econ/  (Discussion List archives)

At this point, the GSDI Legal and Economic Discussion List represents a decent-sized group of colleagues interested in legal, economic, and policy apsects of SDI development -- about 70 people.  And certainly, more are welcome (so spread the word about the GSDI Legal and Economic Working Group).

In the future, the idea is to move to a blog format.  This was proposed at the Legal and Economic open meeting in Chile.  However, some might argue (Roger, for instance), that the world is getting saturated with blogs.... [Roger: "The point is everyone has the opportunity to have their say, which is important from point of view on inclusiveness - yet quite often, no consolidated, comprehensive, analytical 'report', summary, conclusion, whatever you want to call it is produced - so .... we might as well all attend a big conference - like GSDI! - and have likes of nice discussions, chats over meals/drinks, etc. - yet nothing will result that is presentable to a decision maker - unless someone writes it all down, does the leg work."]  
Good point, Roger.....  something the Legal and Economic Working Group did not properly address during the open meeting.  Does anyone have suggestions on how to synthesize dialogue that takes place in the proposed blog format? (other than putting more responsibility onto the individuals who have already volunteered to put together a dialogue 'piece'.  Perhaps we need both a volunteer "initiator/moderator"... and a "compiler/synthesizer" for each topic that is presented in 2007.  We will invite ideas on this in a subsequent email, once we have a better idea on the schedule for the GSDI Association website revisions.

Another issue that needs further exploration is joint research.  During the open meeting, quite a few people expressed interest in joint research on impact of data policies... particularly Paul Uhlir of NAS... on first developing a methodology for doing such research.  Since we didn't adequate time during the meeting, an since there were quite a few people with varied research interests, we agreed to invite people to express their research interests... and that the Working Group would try to help people link up with others with similar research interests.  Again, Roger and I will follow up with this in a subsequent email to the Legal and Economic Discussion List.  Also, each of you is welcome to initiate a discussion via the List.  And if you're doing research, please provide a brief abstract about their work for the GSDI legal and economic 'research and researchers' page (within the GSDI Legal and Economic Working Group web pages):
http://www.gsdi.org/Association%20Information/Committees/Legal+EconomicWorkingGroup.asp
GSDI Legal and Economic Working Group web page
http://gsdidocs.org/lewg/GII_research.htm

Regards,

Kate Lance, Co-Chair, GSDI Legal and Economic Working Group 

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