Never before has so much machine-readable data existed, but organizations still struggle to find ways to use this mass of information to aid in decision-making. "The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data."Īs the quotations above illustrate, the creation, manipulation, and analysis of data represent a significant challenge for contemporary organizations. Daniel Keys Moran, American computer programmer and science fiction writer. “You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.” Mitchell Kapor, co-founder of Lotus and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a firehose.” We're continuing to expand what’s possible with FME, the data integration software with the best spatial support in the world. Our passion for freeing data was ignited, and we've been on a mission to help people experience that freedom ever since. We didn't start with a business plan, but we did have a desire to help. Often, an incredible amount of information was lost in the process. Sure, it was technically possible to share the maps back then, but only after hours fighting with the data. Safe Software began in a basement in 1993, helping forestry companies exchange maps with the provincial government. Perhaps soon they’ll dominate the environmental conversation.FME (the Feature Manipulation Engine) is a data integration tool used for transforming data. There’s no call for expansive regulation, zoning, or federal subsidies to solve this environmental “problem.” Instead, concepts like “economic incentives” and “entrepreneurial approaches to pay private landowners” dominate the interview. She even explains that the consumers of the environmental goods should be the ones who pay!Īdvocates of Free Market Environmentalism (FME) should be pleased. In it, she discusses how paying private forest owners not to sell to developers is a cost-effective way to ensure the continued provision of wildlife habitat and clean water. What is newsworthy is the author Logan Yonavjak’s interview on NPR.
Suburban development has long been the bane of wilderness preservationists. The focus of this particular report is deforestation in the South and the critical importance of protecting “Intact Forest Landscapes” from suburban development. This report by the World Resources Institute begins as most environmental reports do: with alarming news of man-made environmental destruction and a dire prognosis for maintaining the status quo.
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