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West Midlands Cloud, Data & Smart Mobility EXPO 2013

By take21 | Published: November 26, 2013

The Business Information Portal present West Midlands Cloud, Data & Smart Mobility EXPO 2013 at Birmingham City University, Faculty of Technology, Engineering & Environment, Millennium Point. Map of location from OpenStreetMap   Day 1: Thursday 28th Nov, Starts 10.00 to 17.00 Day 2: Friday 29th Nov, Starts 10.00 to 17.00 Program details and booking here […]

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Some examples of open data in use

By take21 | Published: October 5, 2013

I was asked for some examples of open data in action. I seem to have written a blog post.   Best transparency example for government procurement is Slovenia http://supervizor.kpk-rs.si/ Search every contract and transaction. Linked to company registry and directors. The company data will be appearing in Open Corporates soon. Story: initially built by a couple […]

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Open Data White Paper links

By take21 | Published: July 4, 2012

The White Paper announcement and relaunch of data.gov.uk on 28th June marked significant progress towards making open data the default for public sector information, with detailed policy commitments and a redesigned data.gov.uk site. However, campaigners were disappointed by the continuing status quo of trading funds charging for core reference data. Quick read: Guardian  Inside the Open Data […]

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Open Data definitions

By take21 | Published: June 26, 2012

Open Data definitionsThe Open Definition sets out principles to define ‘openness’ in relation to content and data and can be summed up in the statement that:“A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.” […]

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YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious

By take21 | Published: April 27, 2011

YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious http://blog.delicious.com/

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Awesome

By take21 | Published: May 5, 2010

If the Milky Way were a CD, then the edge of the *known* universe is 10 miles away, or 134,112 CDs Imagine that our entire Milky Way galaxy were the size of a CD. On this scale, the nearest spiral galaxy, Andromeda, would be another CD about eight feet away.   The furthest galaxies we […]

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Information graphics

By take21 | Published: May 5, 2010

Excellent infographic The Trustworthiness of beards   Lies, dammed lies and statistics (about TED talks) Sebastian Wernicke turns the tools of statistical analysis on TEDTalks, to come up with a metric for creating “the optimum TEDTalk” based on user ratings. They explain: “In a brilliantly tongue-in-cheek analysis”,  for the benefit of people suffering chronic irony […]

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Consultations

By take21 | Published: April 4, 2010

Ordnance Survey Consultation: Policy options for geographic information Government response 31st March  On the government response to Ordnance Survey consultation Ernest Marples blog   Open Democracy post on Making consultation work: the BBC Strategy Review survey. Open Democracy   Online infringement of copyright cost-sharing download PDF  BIS consultation document. Respond by: 25th May 2010   Prime Minister’s office […]

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Freedom of Information

By take21 | Published: March 31, 2010

4 new bodies  added to FOI Act The bodies covered by the change are: the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) and Academy Trusts – the bodies responsible for Academy Schools Ministry of Justice Google produces stats on govt requests for data http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/

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Twitter, microblogging

By take21 | Published: March 18, 2010

Check out Status.net, now in public beta. Microblogging for your domain http://status.net from the identi.ca/laconica people

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