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Transparency and Privacy Review announced
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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. …
Further Analysis of October HQ Energy Efficiency Competition
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Further Analysis of October HQ Energy Efficiency Competition Following on from the results of the competition in October, we have conducted further analysis of the data in three main areas: What did the leading departments do to win the competition; …
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 These organisations hold huge amounts of unpublished data, in some cases going back many years.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
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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
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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 …
My top ten data.gov.uk datasets - a guest post by Simon Rogers
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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 - …
Guidance: Including data into the data.gov.uk index
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This is an older version of the guidance, retained for reference. The updated version should be used instead. A key part of the government's Transparency agenda is the opening up of data held by government bodies – from ministerial departments, …
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