In this blog post we will be taking a look at what went on in the UK Government Data Developers Google Group between November 2010 and January 2011. The group was set up in September 2009 as part of the …
Welcome to the first periodical round-up highlighting blogs, people and ideas that we think might be of interest to the data.gov.uk community: - Read about the recent data.gov.uk case study which took place at the Central Office of Information as …
Departments have now been publishing real time energy consumption for their HQ buildings for five months. Chart 1: Chart 1 shows the profile of energy consumption, in absolute terms, for the period 01/08/10 - 31/12/10. From this we can …
The following is a guest post by Dr. Hanif Rahemtulla, Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham.
Government departments were able to achieve significant energy savings in their HQ buildings over the festive period with MoD and DCMS managing to achieve savings of over 40%. Overall, the HQ buildings managed to reduce their combined energy consumption by …
Professor Nigel Shadbolt came to The National Archives in December 2010 to meet and talk with the Transparency leads from all government departments, in charge of opening Public Data. He talked about the impacts of opening up data and how …
Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office, has announced a review into the impact of transparency on privacy to inform the Government’s approach to the release of data as part of the Transparency agenda. it will be led by Dr. …
Data.gov.uk is proud to once again be partnering with WhereCampEU, this time bringing WhereCampUK to Nottingham on 19th & 20th November. If you're interested in popping along, you can signup here: http://wherecampuk.eventbrite.com/ What is WhereCampUK? A free to attend, two …
The following is a guest post which originally appeared in the Open Data Blog (http://openviz.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/local-data-exchange-ldex-incubator/) which is an unofficial blog featuring contributions from staff working at a UK government department – Communities and Local Government (CLG). Announcing the launch of new …
Data.gov.uk has become one of the finest national open data initiatives in the world - it now has more data than the mighty data.gov in the US, with 4,223 datasets, compared to 2,876 over the Atlantic. It's not perfect - …
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