Open Gov Business Models

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1	Consortia	cali.org / a2jauthor.org for court form development, www.freelawreporter.org and elangdell.cali.org for ebooks in law/legal ed	Institutions/site license	some/best if majority support	moderate/free to individuals like students and faculty	students, faculty, possibly others if content/code is openly licensed (increasingly common in academia)	Projects too big for one institution or requiring cross-institution cooperation	Adoption - all academic projects suffer from adoption problems. Status quo is hard to beat.	goals of members/staff/governance. Non-profit, but need sustainability. Education, social impact/Access to Justice/Innovation & Ed-tech
2	"Business Model"	Example	Who pays	How many people paying?	How much is each person paying?	Who benefits	Good at...?	Bad at....?	Goal
3	Pay services	LexisNexis	industry	some	a LOT	industry	high cost services (eg analysis)	flexibility	profit
4	Freemium	BillTrack50	industry	many	some	citizens/industry	custom solutions	might not last	profit, social impact
5	Advertising	GovTrack	Google	a LOT	negligible	citizens	mass informing	high cost projects	profit, social impact
6	Startup	POPVOX	venture capitalists	handful	a LOT	citizens/legislators	innovation	lasting	ipo
7	Crowdfunding	Kickstarter	citizens	many	some	citizens	meeting specific needs	growing, lasting	solve specific problem
8	Non profit	Sunlight Fdn	foundations	handful	a LOT	citizens	publicity, innovation	control	publicity, social impact
9	Government	THOMAS.gov	POTUS	one	everything	citizens/experts	lasting	social, flexibility	transparency, meeting mandated requirements
10		Data.gov	eGov fund (Congress), community leaders	Less than 20 organizations	Moderate	Citizens, developers, agencies, businesses	Publishing new, free data; getting people to work on joint data projects		Empowering people to find and use government data
11	NGO	World Bank	Institution	one	A LOT	experts, individuals, industry	quality and focus	speed	social impact
12	Multi-Agency System	Science.Gov	multiple agencies	handful	a little	experts, individuals, industry, agencies	transparency across agencies	specialized	using the output of science
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