The Government has launched a website to give the public access to a range of information and data sets. The site’s development was overseen by Sir Tim Berners Lee and builds upon the model developed in the USA with the launch of data.gov.
The site encourages innovation and novel re-use of the information to produce unforeseen outputs and data. Application developers have already produced ten apps employing the new data feeds. People with creative ideas, but without the necessary technical skills to develop applications, can submit their ideas via the website.
Boris Johnson has also announced that London’s authorities will launch a data warehouse at the end of this month to allow similar re-use and re-purposing of the capital’s information.
