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 …
This is the Local Public Data Panel's final response to the Home Office consultation for which we posted the draft a short while ago. Thank you to everyone who gave comments. Local Public Data Panel response to the Home Office …
The Local Government Association has published a draft practitioners' guide, which offers concrete advice to councils on how they should follow the Local Public Data Panel's guidance in publishing their spending and salaries data. You can read and comment on …
This is a draft of the Panel's response. The final response has now been published and sent to the Home Office. The Home Office is consulting about proposals for elected Police and Crime Commissioners to hold UK police forces to …
In a significant move towards transparency, accountability and openness, the Department for Communities and Local Government today published details on every item of Departmental spending on goods and services over £500 in 2009/10. This shows how £314 million of taxpayer …
Local Authorities across the country are preparing to release data on payments for goods and services over £500. Some have asked for assistance balancing the public interest and commercial confidentiality, in particular how the FOIA might work in this context …
Data.gov.uk is proud to be partnering with Open Tech for this year's conference, The first 150 students who pre-register with an .ac.uk, or civil servants with gov.uk email addresses and present valid ID at the desk will get free entry …
We've had some great feedback on our draft guidance on publishing local government spend data both on the blog post and in conversation with practitioners. We hope to improve the guidance soon. The role of data standards has come up …
*Please note that the end points mentioned in this blog post were an experimental development that finished a few years ago, and are therefore all inactive* Linked data offers some great advantages for publishing government data. The approach makes it …
In February 2010 I created a mobile application called ASBOrometer, which I described as a tool that measures levels of anti-social behaviour at your current location. The basis of the app was two datasets made available for reuse on data.gov.uk. …
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