https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-data-mash-ups-for-government/2008/07/24 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:02:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-data-mash-ups-for-government/2008/07/24/comment-page-1#comment-278658 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:38:57 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=1706#comment-278658 The British government recently moved towards making more government data accessible and opening up innovation in creating a website allowing for mashup ideas to be posted, the best of which will get funded. http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk/ . I’ve been talking with people inside the government in the Netherlands to push initiatives like this forward too. It certainly helped having concrete examples from other countries to make a case.
UK leadership at a high level is making some serious inroads into opening up data. They just created a service which citizens can call for any data they find locked. If the data submitted passes the freedom of information act, then it will be made available.

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