Suhaka and Tauberer on Business Models for Reuse of Open Legislative Data

Karen Suhaka of LegiNation and Dr. Joshua Tauberer of GovTrack gave a “lightning talk” presentation entitled Legislative Transparency: A Round Up of Efforts and Results to Date (featuring this GoogleDoc spreadsheet on Open Gov Business Models) at IOGDC 2012 Virtual Conference: International Open Government Data Conference, 7 July 2012.

Part of the presentation concerned descriptions and examples of several different business models for using or reusing legislative and other government data. The legislative examples included:

• BillTrack50 (an example of the “Freemium” business model)
• GovTrack (“Advertising”)
• LexisNexis (“Pay services”)
• POPVOX (“Startup”)
• Sunlight Foundation (“Nonprofit”)
• THOMAS (“Government”)

The authors invite you to contribute additional business models and examples of use and reuse of open government data, to their GoogleDoc spreadsheet.

HT @Smoodle.

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