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24 January 2010

Local-data.gov.au

On Friday, the U.K. launched their whole-of-government data store at data.gov.uk. (See Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt, Our manifesto for government data.)

Many countries, states, cities and even councils now offer public access to their data. This Guardian photo gallery showcases the range of international initiatives.

Ingrid Koehler of the U.K.‘s Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) – whose Communities of Practice is a rich and valuable resource for council officers – attended the launch and blogged about it.

She says – “they’re coming for us next.”

[F]or local government this means that we’re facing some clear choices. We can command this agenda … or we can let it happen to us.

Last year the Government 2.0 Taskforce used IdeaScale to collate requests for datasets held by all levels of government. 62 suggestions were posted. Of these, only about 6 or 7 have a local government context.

We can do better. I’ve set up an IdeaScale to continue to solicit suggestions for Australian local government datasets.

The motivation here is to give developers and decision makers within local government an indication of what information is most wanted. There may also be datasets that we didn’t think were of use (perhaps they only tell part of a story) or were not aware that we held.

What local government datasets would you like to see made available?

Image credit: Sails – shealo (Flickr) CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

— b3rn      Jan 24, 05:49 PM   #

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