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To Downing Street Policy http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20595

Making public data public http://digitalengagement.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/blog/ In the past few months this blog has made a few introductions and this will be the last for a while!

We want this project for Making Public Data Public to put UK businesses and other organisations at the forefront of the new semantic web, and to be a platform for developing new technologies and new services. by rww Nov 7

dxw brings engaging, smart web projects to the public sector. They've got a plan http://dxw.com/

Calling Open Data Developers

John Sheridan talks http://cloudofdata.com/2009/07/john-sheridan-talks-about-the-drive-to-get-government-data-online/ share share

John Sheridan says that putting free data online is a matter of public services. Publishing government data will also help companies to develop their business. John Sheridan is also a W3C member, he creates ontologies as an hobby, we can expect the better for UK government data. by nicolas Jul 25

Tom Steinberg talks http://cloudofdata.com/2009/09/talking-with-tom-steinberg-about-mysociety-and-public-engagement-with-government-data/ As usual, links to the resources we discuss are available in show notes on the Talis site.

http://www.mysociety.org/ mySociety Using our services, 200,000 people have written to their MP for the first time, over 65,000 potholes and other broken things have been fixed , over 120,000 people get emailed about things that happen in Parliament , and at least 77 tiny hats have been knitted for charity .

« « Talking about Social Data Discovery with Kevin Merritt of Socrata Semantic Web Gang http://cloudofdata.com/2009/09/septembers-semantic-web-gang-podcast-discusses-government-data/

Radically opening up Check for archive copy at National Archives . http://www.hmg.gov.uk/frontlinefirst/original-document/action1/transparency.aspx

Launch http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/uk_launches_open_data_site_puts_datagov_to_shame.php The UK government has been a big supporter of innovation built on top of public data.

We have also taken a look at how we can strengthen the community elements of the site. There is a new “history” tab on profiles that enables you to find other posts, comments and apps by that user. http://data.gov.uk/blog/project-update Project update

By Data.gov.uk Team http://data.gov.uk/blog/video-of-nigel-shadbolt-at-activate-2010 July 2010

Some developers were cautious about the Data.gov.uk licensing plans. Jonathon Raper, professor of geographical information science at City University London, said that while he welcomed the OPSI proposals, the licence terms and conditions would need to be carefully drafted. http://blog.programmableweb.com/2010/02/04/uk-to-pay-developers-of-public-mashups/ UK pays mashups developers

Gov cloud computing system ? http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/27/cloud-computing-government-uk Similarly the new "cloud" system will not include the security services such as MI5 or MI6, which have their own, separate systems. Estimates prepared for the government suggest the "cloud" system could save £900m in their first five years, and £300m annually after that compared to the present structure. Suffolk said that "as a rule", UK citizens' personal data will not be transported overseas – although he could not rule it out.