If you’ve not heard of the ‘Hampshire Hub’ before, it’s a collaboration between many public sector organisations working in and round Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. It is developing smarter and more open ways of sharing data and insights …
Transparency is a vital tool in delivering social impact. Greater transparency in the social investment market will help more social ventures get access to the capital they need to grow, and help socially minded investors deploy their funds to greatest …
The Open Data User Group is an independent advisory group to government, championing the needs of open data users. It highlights public sector data with real potential to bring social and economic benefit and works with the Government to promote its release as open data.
Today, we are delighted to announce the launch of our new ‘hub’ for all of our open data – data.police.uk. Following best practice and principles set out by the Open Data Institute, we’ve made a number of improvements to the …
Of all the talks I’ve attended recently, @GescheSchmid summed up what big data means to me when she said “Visualise the data, make it understandable to citizens so they can engage with it”.
It’s now over two years since we launched street-level crime mapping on police.uk. The public response has been, and continues to be, phenomenal. Since launching in January 2011,police.uk has had nearly 550 million hits (just short of 54 million visits), with the …
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