Zach Goldstein: The benefit of the latest program that I was talking about before the break - NOAH - is that we’re going to get us a byproduct of the access by the American economy. We’ll get better tools; we’ll get better access ourselves. But the real benefit is not going to be accrued by NOAH; it’s going to be accrued by all the people who use the data. The opportunities are mind boggling. One third of our Gross Domestic Product is related to climate sensitive industries in the United States. We talked about an opportunity earlier, before the break. The cost of getting that data is high, but if that can be reduced, you can promote the economy. Our expectation is that the public private partnerships that we seek to help get our Big Data out there and being used will be able to scale, they’ll be able to search rapidly. Removing the government infrastructure itself is the bottle-neck to the pace of innovation to use that data, as much as we have to have our infrastructure to generate our forecasts, to generate our maps. If all you want to do is get to the Data and don’t care about the process, if it’s all about the data, you don’t want us to be in the way. So the real power of this initiative is to get us out of the way, get the power of American industry to take our data and make it available for scientific advancement, for innovation, for new industries and is a byproduct – and this is not a small thing – it also will help NOAH to advance presidential executive order 13642, which is much more commonly known as making open and machine-readable the new default for government information.
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