Opening Up Government Data - A Poster
Great poster from James Burke explaining the issues around opening up government data for civil servants. He explains how the poster 'forms the last part of a research project on open government data for the Dutch Ministry of Interior Affairs'.
He encourages civil servants to display it in public places so as to encourage discussion around the subject. Enabling such a debate should help to ensure important data-sets get published correctly.
It's good to see a poster highlighting the relatively straightforward steps necessary to open up government data for public consumption. The UK is working on an open data site (data.gov.uk) similar to that available in the US (data.gov). Australia, New Zealand and others have open data catalogues available. It's great to see the work the Netherlands is doing in this area with http://opendataoverheid.nl and other initiatives.
(Image via Lifesized on Flickr)
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