Welcome news for those involved in open data campaigning this morning – the government is looking into new ways of releasing information and has appointed wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales to help. The Telegraph says that Wales is one of a number of “unpaid advisors” who would help the public sector “deliver new ways that we can [...]
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Charities and #opendata – BIG, Nominet Trust, NCVO event
Our good friends at Nominet Trust organised an event with BIG and NCVO today to help small UK charities start to navigate their way around the open data landscape. It was great to see about 100 small charities in the room, the event was 100% over subscribed. It was very apt that a charity that [...]
Open data – forward strategy
A few people from central government have asked to talk to me recently about open data as they look at their strategy beyond legislation. I thought I would write down repeated themes to save on more meetings. The conversation is normally about how data can be used for the public good as opposed to, say [...]
Bins, mags, shops and more: Talk About Local at #LocalGovCampNW
Local Government Camp-ers braved the wintry NW weather at the weekend for a get together of collaborative plotting and just a teeny bit of geekery. Mike, Sarah and Karen from Talk About Local took part – here’s some of our post camp thoughts. Session on council magazine publications Mike says…..The session on magazines & social [...]
Don’t just televise courts, democratise them by making basic justice data available to all
The government’s small step today towards televising some courts business is welcome. It’s surreal that these public institutions, with a strong tradition of viewing by citizens should not be on TV and radio. But there is a much bigger opportunity here – to open up to the whole of society information on what happens [...]