{"609523":{"#nid":"609523","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Satellite Data and Cheeseburgers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/borowitz\u0022\u003EMariel Borowitz\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/inta.gatech,edu\u0022\u003ESam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Institute of Technology, wrote\u0026nbsp;the \u003Cem\u003ESpace News,\u003C\/em\u003E August 8, op-ed, \u0026ldquo;Satellite Data and Cheeseburgers.\u0026rdquo; The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;If cheeseburgers were declared a global public good because food is necessary for life, and therefore it\u0026rsquo;s a global public good and cheeseburgers therefore had to be given away to the world for free, how many cheeseburgers would have been available to me at nine o\u0026rsquo;clock at night on a Sunday when I landed in Washington, D.C.? The answer is zero. Why? Because nobody is going to start producing cheeseburgers for free.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere are a couple technical issues with this analogy, discussed below, but it captures the key question well: how do we balance support for an exciting, new commercial market with the government\u0026rsquo;s responsibility to provide data that supports science, protects lives and property, and enables value-added companies in sectors ranging from agriculture to energy?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;For the full article, visit\u0026nbsp;the \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spacenews.com\/op-ed-satellite-data-and-cheeseburgers\/\u0022\u003ESpace News\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;website.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34508","created_gmt":"2018-08-09 14:49:57","changed_gmt":"2018-08-09 14:51:12","author":"oadebola3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"digital divide","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/op-ed-satellite-data-and-cheeseburgers\/","dateline":{"date":"2018-08-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-08-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"600193":{"id":"600193","type":"image","title":"Mariel Borowitz","body":null,"created":"1513869989","gmt_created":"2017-12-21 15:26:29","changed":"1539182223","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:37:03","alt":"Portrait photo of Sam Nunn School of International Affairs professor Mariel Borowitz","file":{"fid":"228813","name":"Borowitz1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Borowitz1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Borowitz1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":18137,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Borowitz1.jpg?itok=5PplwhDE"}}},"media_ids":["600193"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"178700","name":"space data"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}