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Analysis: this government is open to scrutiny
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| Yet as new technologies have made it
| possible for governments to make
| information more accessible to the public,
| governments have become increasingly
| creative in inventing excuses to keep it
| hidden.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7787408/Analysis-this-government-is-open-to-scrutiny.html
Open Data: Fantastic, But Not Enough
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| In an unusual move for such a significant
| news item, the UK government announced over
| the weekend that they were ordering all
| government departments to embark on a
| voyage of transparency.
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| There were some very good ideas in the
| announcement, including a mandate to
| publish details of all ITC procurements.
| And there is no doubt that a mandate for
| open data is a fantastic move.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2989
Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt speak out on web institute axing
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| In a statement issued today, the pair --
| who were key in driving through changes in
| government that led to the creation of the
| data.gov.uk website and the freeing of
| Ordnance Survey maps and Royal Mail
| postcode information -- say that "the
| future remains bright" for the web science
| project, and that they are convinced that
| open data will become increasingly
| important to government.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/may/25/berners-lee-institute-web-science-statement
Recent:
Open Government and open data
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| In a classic example of the Broken Window
| Fallacy successive governments have regarded
| the data they, or government-supported
| monopolies such as the Post Office,
| collected as the governmentâs property to be
| monetised to the hilt. They have also kept
| many details of their own working practices
| secret. In this article I will deal with the
| case for as much openness as is possible in
| both these areas: government produced data
| and data about government.
|
| So, first on government produced data. The
| previous government had some good track
| record on the principles here, passing the
| Freedom of Information Act and setting up
| data.gov.uk. The principles were right here,
| but they failed to go the distance and truly
| change the attitudes embedded in government
| that data by default should be kept secret
| and only opened up when necessary. the
| incoming government need to work hard to
| change this attitude and free the data.
| Unless it is PII (see Lilianâs article on
| the challenges for the new government on
| privacy) government data should be free (as
| in speech). Very narrow lines requiring
| significant work to justify closure should
| be put in place otherwise.
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2010/open-government
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