Overview
Kenex Knowledge Systems Ltd (Kenex) is a geological consulting practice that utilises spatial modelling and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to provide supporting information for the earth sciences and agricultural sectors in New Zealand. The firm brings together a unique blend of business development, mining expertise, research and development and spatial information technology skills to provide their services.
Whilst ICTs are important workhorses for the company, both its competitive advantage and its ability to add value to the New Zealand economy by attracting investment in the sectors in which it operates, rely upon the ability to access the data that supply its systems and the distinctive skills of its staff to analyse the data using GIS models.
The key issue facing Kenex relates to property rights of the data that feed into the GIS systems. Kenex management would like to see greater clarity about the rights of access to data collected by Crown-owned entities. This would enable knowledge-based firms like Kenex to convert much paper-based data into more easily usable digital form, undertake and stimulate other firms to undertake greater levels of research and development using that data, and thereby create both vibrant new knowledge-based industries and new investment opportunities for the New Zealand economy.
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