The government has done another public spending data dump today. It’s one of the policies that I was really in favour of before the election and it’s good to see the coalition holding to it’s word with this release. The raw data is available from the Cabinet Office and should soon appear on the government’s [...]
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Digital Democracy
Our new Coalition Overlordstm have launched a new web-site to solicit feedback from the citizenry on what laws should be repealed/modified. This is a little more involved than the current option to sign e-Petitions at the number 10 website. The site supports commenting, tagging as well subscribing to feeds for each idea. I’m quite impressed [...]
Openness and Transparency
One of the things that I found encouraging about the Tory manifesto was they seemed to get the concept of government transparency and open data. While news about top civil service pay is what hit the headlines yesterday the new directive to civil servants is much wider. While the last government should be saluted for [...]
