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Berners-Lee Calls For Government Data Transparency

Posted by samzenpus on from the data-for-the-people dept.

eldavojohn writes "Two months ago, Tim Berners-Lee unveiled a UK Government data project with the goal to make government data more useful for everyone. Today he is calling on the rest of the world's governments to become more transparent with their nonsensitive data. After only a few months, his project boasts around forty applications for using government data (screenshot example here). The BBC article notes the interesting uses of public data in India and Brazil that are disappointingly lacking in other countries — even the United States. Hopefully the US's data.gov will evolve to hosting apps instead of just data."

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  1. TED Talk by jduhls · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's his TED Talk on the subject.

  2. Vancouver data is open..still waiting for StatsCan by el+chief · · Score: 2, Informative

    City of Vancouver data is open now, at: http://data.vancouver.ca/ Still can't find a goddam list of all the buildings in Vancouver. How hard is that? Statistics Canada are still dinosaurs. They charge for access to data we paid them to collect.