Designing the Market of Data - For Practical Data Sharing via Educational and Innovative Communications

This special issue of Open Journal of Information Systems (OJIS) reports work on designing the market of data for practical data sharing via educational and innovative communications (MoDAT). In the market of data, data are reasonably dealt with sold, opened, or shared based on negotiation. Since last years, we have been aiming at realizing a social environment, where each person feels free to share one’s own and others’ data for learning the latent value of data without fearing the loss of business opportunities. In the market, data and analysts’ knowledge are shared by selling and buying, with reasonably determining the conditions for sharing. People in the market may communicate with each other in order to decide to expose the data as open-source, if the trust of the data provider is expected to be elevated highly due to the contribution to people in the public. Thus the Market of Data means a place where the value of data and knowledge can be externalized. OJIS is published by RonPub (www.ronpub.com), which is an academic publisher of online, open access, peer-reviewed journals. TYPE OF PAPER AND