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12 Aug 2014 - 11:30
We can now start to see the benefits of the emerging infrastructure for councils to share details of their published open data.   Take a look at the screen shot below from esd’s open data page for browsing datasets.  It lists council datasets published in specified formats for selected service areas.   The page shows a filtered selection of datasets read from different... See more
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12 Jul 2014 - 14:22
The prize for best web app at the Building apps for local communities hackathon went to Team Bieber for their Clouds over London app, using esd-toolkit’s Application Profile Interface (API).  The app, described here, indicates the potential suitability of different areas for people moving into a city.     The app uses the API which sits under LG Inform and... See more
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12 Jul 2014 - 12:56
The prize for best web app at the Building apps for local communities hackathon went to Team Bieber for their Clouds over London app, using esd-toolkit’s Application Profile Interface (API).  The app, described here, indicates the potential suitability of different areas for people moving into a city.     The app uses the API which sits under LG Inform and... See more
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12 Jul 2014 - 15:10
  This morning Brian Jarman told BBC’s Today programme that the data indicates 20,000 hospital deaths could have been avoided over the past ten years if we’d acted on what the data is telling us.  Death is easy to measure because even the bad hospitals have to record it and you don’t go into hospital with it, but you might go out with it. So we can identify where mortality rates... See more
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12 Jul 2014 - 15:11
In some circles, the term “transparency” seems to have supplanted “open government” which might imply the objective is for government to go on doing what it is doing now but in a more transparent way.  That would be a pity because there is so much potential for improvement if people outside government can not only see what it is doing but also help do it better. The Government Digital... See more
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