[Public Comments]: Draft Comment on Open Data Initiative Datasets and Metadata

[Sam Lanfranco]

Colleagues,

While I fully endorse as much open data access for ICANN as is possible, 
without compromising personal privacy, I am sobered by the general view 
that in Open Government Data most of the benefits go to the deep 
pocketed stakeholders (corporate entities) that have the financial 
resources to mine the data.

Giving civil society access, without it having research resources, 
leaves it dependent on those few academics who will mine the data in the 
public interest, or when it just occasionally catches data outliers that 
raise concerns.

Sam L.,
>
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 11:54 PM, Raphaël Beauregard-Lacroix 
> <rbeauregardlacroix at gmail.com <mailto:rbeauregardlacroix at gmail.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hi Elsa, hi all,
>
>     Thank you and the team for taking the time for drafting the
>     comment. I find that the points raised in the comment are indeed
>     relevant!  From a broader perspective, it is good that ICANN has
>     plans to publish more data - I can see a lot of potential for
>     qualitative and quantitative research here in various fields of
>     social sciences!
>
>     Best,
>

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