Simon Willison’s Weblog

Show Us a Better Way. The UK Government’s Power of Information Taskforce are running a mashup competition (a.k.a. “ideas for new products that could improve the way public information is communicated”) with a £20,000 prize fund and gigabytes of brand new data and APIs. This is a great opportunity for the software community to demonstrate how important this kind of open data really is.

# 4th July 2008, 9:36 am / apis, mashups, open-data, powerofinformation, ukgovernment

OPSI asks users to contribute to new web channel. The Office of Public Sector Information now has an online forum for people interested in reusing UK government information for commercial benefit, based on a recommendation in the “Power of Information” report by Tom Steinberg and Ed Mayo.

# 20th October 2007, 1:18 pm / edmayo, government, opsi, powerofinformation, tom-steinberg, uk