This is part 5 of a larger blog post, you can read the introduction here.
At the summit Jack Dangermond told us of his idea of creating a transactional database of the world. I think a central repository of all scientific knowledge in relation to the earth. A place where anyone with a computer and access to the internet could access all the sensor logs and all the analytical models that existed. Now there is an amazing if a little scary idea.
I think as long as no one organisation or government has total control over this database then it may have a huge amount of uses for humanity and the planet. The real implementation issues are not technical though, it’s the financial, political and social aspects. Perhaps this EU INSPIRE directive is the start of it all then?
