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February 17th, 2012
Why We’re Worried about Google’s Deal with the World Bank

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Yesterday we tweeted that we were hearing concerns about the recently signed deal between Google and the World Bank that will allow the Bank to provide Google’s Map Maker platform to governments and multilaterals around the world. We’ve dug around a little more and our concerns haven’t dissipated: this is a big deal and could negatively influence the future of open data in many countries. Read More