The Open Data Master Class Series - Guest Post
The following is a guest post by Dr. Hanif Rahemtulla, Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham.
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Central government HQ buildings achieve energy savings of 30% over Christmas
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 …
Podcast: Nigel Shadbolt discusses transparency & data.gov.uk
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 …
Transparency and Privacy Review announced
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. …
Guidance from the Local Public Data Panel on Quango data
In October 2010, the Government announced plans to abolish, merge or substantially reform hundreds of public bodies. These organisations hold huge amounts of unpublished data, in some cases going back many years. Taken together, this amounts to an enormous wealth …
Data.gov.uk partnering with WhereCampUK, Nottingham
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 …
Local Data Exchange (LDEx) incubator
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 …
Announcing The Data.gov.uk Catalogue APIs
The government is currently releasing lots of data through data.gov.uk. With new data available every day, it can be really interesting to hunt down data sets and plot them on a graph to get a feel for the numbers. This …
Video of Nigel Shadbolt at Activate 2010
Professor Nigel Shadbolt gave a talk about the power of government data and the work that he and others have been doing to open it up at The Guardian's Activate 2010 conference in July. We have included a video of …
Local Public Data Panel response to Health White Paper
The Local Public Data Panel is an independent panel that exists to promote and facilitate the release of public data. The Panel has played a key role in providing advice on the publication of fine grained and timely local authority …
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