Instead, a treaty that sets out high-level principles for traditional telecommunications such as competition and open and transparent regulatory process, would foster continued innovation in technologies and services that ride on that underlying telecommunications.
Just as open data has been used to fuel multi-billion dollar industries in other sectors, like the weather industry that uses raw satellite data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has spent the last few years nurturing entrepreneurial innovation in the health space through open government data.