Europa Press Releases: Digital Agenda: Turning government data into gold
Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 13:04
“The [European Commission's Open Data Strategy for Europe is] to lift performance EU-wide is three-fold: firstly the Commission will lead by example, opening its vaults of information to the public for free through a new data portal. Secondly, a level …
Guardian Government Computing: Boundary Commission defends release of pdfs of new constituency boundaries
Thursday, 15 September 2011, 12:32
"The Boundary Commission for England (BCE) has defended its decision to release more than 500 pdf maps of proposed Parliamentary constituencies, stating that they believe they provided "an appropriate level of detail". … The decision w…
O’Reilly Radar: BrightScope liberates financial advisor data
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 10:20
Useful advice for data journalism projects, as well: "[The] government data that BrightScope has gathered on financial advisors will go further than a given profile page. Over time, as search engines like Google and Bing index the information, the…
Deutsche Welle: EU to launch tender for open data portal
Thursday, 21 April 2011, 09:08
"In the coming weeks, the EU will launch a tender for tech companies and freelance programmers to create an EU-wide online portal to allow access to government information and services. … the project's aim is to change how European citizens…
Ordnance Survey Blog: Changes to the OS OpenData licence
Thursday, 6 January 2011, 12:41
"From today, anyone who visits the OS OpenData site, where they can download a wide range of Ordnance Survey mapping for free, will notice something a little different. That’s because we’ve incorporated the Open Government Licence, the new gov…
Martin Belam: What open Government data gives us with one hand, closed state data takes away with another
Friday, 26 November 2010, 14:35
Exactly right: "Using the Guardian's data explorer tool, you can get a comprehensive list of suppliers. Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could instantly cross-reference that with the records at Companies House? … It would also be interesting to compare the sums being paid to a company's declared accounts. What sort of proportion of their turnover derives from state spending?"
The Dan Slee Blog: Open Floodgates: What publishing Whitehall data means for local government
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 14:58
"What's next? … Historical data will be released … More public agencies will follow … There will be a right to data … Open data will move from spending into crime… "
Guardian: Journalists of the future need data skills, says Berners-Lee
Friday, 19 November 2010, 16:00
Sir Tim Berners-Lee: "the responsibility needs to be with the press. Journalists need to be data-savvy. These are the people whose jobs are to interpret what government is doing to the people. So it used to be that you would get stories by chatting to people in bars, and it still might be that you'll do it that way some times. But now it's also going to be about poring over data and equipping yourself with the tools to analyse it and picking out what's interesting. And keeping it in perspective, helping people out by really seeing where it all fits together, and what's going on in the country."
Computer Weekly: Open data as disruptive to government as the internet, says Socitm
Tuesday, 9 November 2010, 18:45
"The current movement to open up public sector data could be as disruptive for government as the internet has been for the media industry, according to the Society for IT Management (Socitm)."
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Scientific American made conjoined twins out of [Journalism 2.0 and Science 2.0.] last week with its latest experiment in networked journalism: an article about networked science.
