However, to me, Openness (and with it Broader adoption, private, hybrid of Public) about the Cloud starts with open Standards for APIs, reference architecture and hardware (Open Compute is a good example of that).

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Adoption of new policies enforcing private property rights, facilitating the start of new business, decreasing the number and time of bureaucratic procedures, all this can lead to reversal in capital flow figures.

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Furthermore, UNESCO was a driving force behind the 1995 adoption of the UNIDROIT Convention on stolen or illicitly exported cultural property, which aims at harmonizing private law in the 15 States party to the Convention today.

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