Should all publicly funded projects, that have web resources as an output, be produced sustainably?

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What happens to those Web resources when the organisations are no longer in existence? Public money has often been used to develop these resources - from that perspective it would be a shame to lose them.

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Marek Pavlík

I think that there is no general answer. Answers depend on the content of the Web and on the purpose of the original investment. However based on the idea of cost benefit analysis; the benefits from output/outcome should be higher than costs.

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