A group of academics at Princeton University in the US has published a very interesting paper called ‘Government Data and the Invisible Hand’.
This quote from the Abstract gives a sense of its strong alignment with the Power of Information thinking in the UK:
Today, government bodies consider their own websites to be a higher priority than technical infrastructures that open up their data for others to use. We argue that this understanding is a mistake. It would be preferable for government to understand providing reusable data, rather than providing websites, as the core of its online publishing responsibility.
Richard Allan, Task Force Chair
Power of Information Task Force 